A commodity in liquid form shall be sold only by liquid measure or by weight, and a commodity not in liquid form shall be sold only by weight, by measure of length or area or by count; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to a commodity sold for immediate consumption on the premises of sale, to vegetables sold by the head or bunch, to cotton seed sold to cotton gins or to a commodity when in package or container form standardized by law. The board shall issue such regulations as are required to carry out the provisions of this section.
History: 1953 Comp., § 76-1-38, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 202, § 11; 1965, ch. 279, § 1; 1973, ch. 386, § 11.
ANNOTATIONSAm. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Validity of statute or ordinance requiring commodities to be sold in a specified quantity or weight, 6 A.L.R. 429, 90 A.L.R. 1290.