Pennsylvania Act 1996-37 — WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT OF 1965 - AMEND SALE OF POTATOES

Act text

Session of 1996

No. 1996-37

HB 2008

AN ACT

Amending the act of December 1, 1965 (P.L.988, No.368), entitled, as amended, "An act relating to weights and measures; regulating the use and sale, and providing for the inspection of weighing and measuring devices; regulating the sale and packaging of commodities; imposing duties and conferring powers upon the Attorney General and Department of Justice and certain local officials; and prescribing penalties," further providing for the sale of potatoes.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 32 of the act of December 1, 1965 (P.L.988, No.368), known as the Weights and Measures Act of 1965, is amended to read:

Section 32. Potatoes.--(a) All potatoes packed for sale, offered or exposed for sale, in this Commonwealth, shall be packaged in containers of net avoirdupois weights of any weight less than three, three, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, fifty and one hundred pounds and multiples of one hundred pounds.

(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to (1) potatoes offered to the consumer at retail from bulk stock; (2) the sale of potatoes to processors or for export; (3) the sale of peeled, cut or sliced potatoes, or frozen or dehydrated potatoes, or precooked dehydrated or dried potatoes; (4) the sale of seed potatoes; or (5) the sale of sweet potatoes or yams.

Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.

APPROVED--The 16th day of May, A. D. 1996.

THOMAS J. RIDGE