Chap. 183.—An ACT to define flour and meal, and to fix standard weight packages.
or containers tor the marketing of such flour and meal; to provide for the
enforcement of the provisions of this act, and penalties for its violation; and

to repeal certain acts and parts of acts relating to the same subject.
[S B 117]

Approved March 13, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. All flour and meal packed for sale, offered or ex-
posed for sale, or sold in this State shall be in one of the following stand-
ard weight packages and no other, namely: five pounds, ten pounds.
twenty-five pounds, fifty pounds, one hundred pounds, and multiples
of one hundred pounds. However, nonstandard weight packages may
be packed for sale, offered or exposed for sale, or sold in this State,
weighing three pounds or less, if said nonstandard weight packages shall
be plainly and conspicuously marked showing net contents in avoirdupois
weight: Provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to pre-
vent the retail sale of any amount of flour or meal direct to the consumer
from bulk, upon order and weighed at time of delivery to the consumer,
or to prevent the exchange of grains for flour or meal for home consump-
tion by mills grinding for toll, or the sale of flours and meals to com-
mercial bakers or blenders in containers of more than one hundred
pounds.

Section 2. The term “flour” as used herein shall mean any finely
ground product of wheat, or other grain, corn, peas, beans, seeds or other
substance, with or without added ingredients, intended for use for human
consumption.

The term “meal” as used herein shall mean any product of grain,
corn, peas, beans, seed or other substance coarsely ground, with or with-
out added ingredients, either bolted or unbolted, including grits and
hominy, intended for use for human consumption.

Section 3. <A statement of the weight of the flour or meal con-
tained in a package shall be plainly and conspicuously shown on the
package, and must be a correct statement of the net weight of the prod-
uct, and shall appear either on or immediately above or below the prin-
cipal label.

Section 4. This act shall be enforced by the Commissioner of
Agriculture and Immigration and the Board of Agriculture through
its designated agencies.

Section 5. Any person who shall violate any provision of this act
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon a first conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than two hundred
dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or by both
such fine and imprisonment ; and upon a second or subsequent conviction,
shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hun-
dred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both
such fine and imprisonment.

2. Chapter three hundred sixty-nine of the Acts of Assembly of
nineteen hundred twenty-four, approved March twenty, nineteen hun-
dred twenty-four, relating to corn-mill products; section sixteen of
chapter two hundred sixteen of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hun-
dred twenty-four, approved March fourteen, nineteen hundred twenty-
four (section sixteen having been added to such chapter two hundred
sixteen by chapter one hundred forty-five of the Acts of Assembly of
nineteen hundred twenty-six), relating to standard weights of barrels of
flour; and chapter three hundred fifty-six of the Acts of Assembly of
nineteen hundred thirty-two, approved March twenty-six, nineteen hun-
dred thirty-two, relating to the sale of buckwheat in packages, are re-
pealed.