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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time

§ 241. Penalty for selling lime in unmarked barrels and containers

Statutory text

It shall be unlawful to pack, sell, or offer for sale for shipment from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, any barrels or other containers of lime which are not marked as provided in sections 238 and 239 of this title, or to sell, charge for, or purport to deliver from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, as a large or small barrel or a fractional part of said small barrel of lime, any less weight of lime than is established by the provisions of sections 237 to 242 of this title and any person guilty of a violation of the provisions of said sections shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to a fine not exceeding $100.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 64–396 § 5 · 39 Stat. 530

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 241

    (Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 5, 39 Stat. 531.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 5, 39 Stat. 531.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. That it shall be unlawful to pack, sell, or offer for sale for Interstate shipments unmarked, etc., unlawful. shipment from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, any barrels or other containers of lime which are not marked as provided in sections two and three of this Act, or to sell, charge for, or purport to When less than standard. deliver from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, as a large or small barrel or a fractional part of said small barrel of lime, any less weight of lime than is established by the provisions of this Act; and Penalty. any person guilty of a violation of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to a fine not exceeding $100.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 5, 39 Stat. 531.)

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