Mississippi § 75-27-107 - Containers for wheat and corn flours, corn meal, hominy, and grits.

§ 75-27-107. Containers for wheat and corn flours, corn meal, hominy, and grits.

It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, corporation, company, cooperative society, or organization to pack for sale, sell, offer or expose for sale in this state any of the following commodities except in containers of net avoirdupois weights of two (2), five (5), ten (10), twenty-five (25), fifty (50), and one hundred (100) pounds, and multiples of one hundred (100) pounds; wheat flour, self-rising wheat flour, phosphated wheat flour, bromated flour, enriched flour, enriched self-rising flour, enriched bromated flour, corn flour, corn meals, hominy and hominy grits; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to (a) the retailing of flours, meals, hominy and hominy grits direct to the consumer from bulk stock, or (b) the sale of flours and meals to commercial bakers or blenders or for export in containers of more than one hundred (100) pounds, or (c) flours, meals, hominy and hominy grits packed in cartons the net contents of which are less than five (5) pounds, or (d) the exchange of wheat for flour by mills grinding for toll. Provided that this section shall not apply to stock on hand at time of enactment. Any violation of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor and upon conviction, the offender shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense.