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• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-1. Municipal power not impaired
  Nothing in this title shall be construed to abrogate or impair the power of the governing body of any municipality or of the courts to ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-2. Definitions
  51:1-2. As used in this chapter: a. "Commodity" means any article of food, drink, trade or commerce, or any service or ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-3. Use of both systems
  The inch-pound system of weights and measures in customary use in the United States and the metric system or System International (SI) of weights ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-4. Yard
  The standard yard shall contain three feet of thirty-six inches. ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-5. Chain for measurement of land
  The standard chain for the measurement of land shall consist of four rods of sixty-six feet. ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-6. Test of measuring devices
  Steel measuring tapes used by professional land surveyors and professional engineers shall be compared by the State superintendent at least once in five years with ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-7. Standard ton
  The standard gross ton shall consist of two thousand, two hundred and forty pounds. The standard net ton shall consist of two thousand pounds. ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-8. Pound; avoirdupois; troy
  The standard avoirdupois pound, which shall be the standard for all commodities usually sold by weight, except gold, silver, jewels and drugs, shall contain seven ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-9. Gallon; quart
  The standard gallon shall contain two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches. The standard liquid quart shall contain fifty-seven and seventy-five one-hundredths ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-10. Sale of milk or cream
  All milk, skimmed milk or cream, except such as may be bought or sold either by weight or on the butter fat basis, shall be ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-11. Labeling or tagging milk cans
  Each can originally containing more or less than forty quarts of milk or cream shall bear a label or tag naming in quarts its original ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-12. Penalties; disposition
  51:1-12. A person violating any provision of sections 51:1-10 or 51:1-11 of this Title shall be liable to a ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-13. Branding butter and cheese packages; penalty
  Every firkin, tub or other vessel for the package of butter or cheese shall be branded in legible letters and characters by the cooper or ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-14. Use of unbranded package; defacing or altering brand; penalty
  Any person who shall sell or dispose of butter or cheese in a firkin, tub or vessel manufactured for such purpose in this State which ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-15. Liquids only to be sold by liquid measure
  No person shall use a liquid measure in the purchase or sale of other than liquid commodities. ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-16. Bushel
  The standard bushel shall contain two thousand one hundred and fifty and forty-two one-hundredths cubic inches which capacity shall apply to all articles ...
• New Jersey Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers Laws Section 51:1-17. Foods sold only by weight or numerical count; exceptions
  All articles of food, other than liquids, which are capable of being measured by dry capacity measure and which heretofore have been sold by dry ...

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