# COMAR Title 15 — Maryland Department of Agriculture

## Subtitle 03 — Weights and Measures

### Chapter 01 — Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices and Procedures for Testing Packaged Goods

**Authority:** Agriculture Article, §§11-203 and 11-206, Annotated Code of Maryland

**Administrative History:** Effective date: February 1, 1973

**Administrative History:** Regulation .01 amended effective January 7, 1991 (17:26 Md. R. 2977); July 20, 1992 (19:14 Md. R. 1285); June 7, 1993 (20:11 Md. R. 916); August 29, 1994 (21:17 Md. R. 1440); May 8, 1995 (22:9 Md. R. 647); August 26, 1996 (23:17 Md. R. 1248); May 19, 1997 (24:10 Md. R. 712); June 29, 1998 (25:13 Md. R. 996); October 2, 2000 (27:19 Md. R. 1727)

**Administrative History:** Regulation .02 adopted effective January 7, 1991 (17:26 Md. R. 2977)

**Administrative History:** Regulation .02 amended effective October 2, 2000 (27:19 Md. R. 1727); August 5, 2002 (29:15 Md. R. 1143); March 6, 2023 (50:4 Md. R. 122)

#### Regulation .01 Specifications, Tolerances, and Technical Requirements for Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices.

*COMAR 15.03.01.01*

The specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for commercial weighing and measuring devices used in the State are those adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures as published in National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 44, as amended, as provided under Agriculture Article, §11-203(c), Annotated Code of Maryland.

#### Regulation .02 Procedures for Testing the Net Contents of Packaged Goods.

*COMAR 15.03.01.02*

The procedures and statistical sampling techniques used by the Maryland Department of Agriculture to test packages for conformance with legal weights and measures standards in this State are those adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures as published in “NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Handbook 133, 2020 Edition, Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods", which is incorporated by reference.