363.720 Provisions as to packaged commodities.
Except as otherwise provided in KRS 363.510 to 363.850, any commodity in package
form introduced or delivered for introduction into or received in intrastate commerce,
kept for the purpose of sale, or offered or exposed for sale in intrastate commerce, shall
bear on the outside of the package such definite, plain, and conspicuous declarations of:
(1) The identity of the commodity in the package unless the same can easily be
identified through the wrapper or container,
(2) The net quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure, or count, and
(3) In the case of any package kept, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold in any place
other than on the premises where packed, the name and place of business of the
manufacturer, packer, or distributor, as may be prescribed by regulation issued by
the director.
Provided, that in connection with the declaration required under subsection (2) of this
section, neither the qualifying term "when packed" or any words of similar import, nor
any term qualifying a unit of weight, measure, or count (for example, "jumbo," "giant,"
"full," and the like) that tends to exaggerate the amount of commodity in a package shall
be used; and provided further, that under subsection (2) of this section the director shall,
by regulation, establish reasonable variations to be allowed, which may include variations
below the declared weight or measure caused by ordinary and customary exposure, only
after the commodity is introduced into intrastate commerce, to conditions that normally
occur in good distribution practice and that unavoidably result in decreased weight or
measure, exemptions as to small packages, and exemptions as to commodities put up in
variable weights or sizes for sale intact and either customarily not sold as individual units
or customarily weighed or measured at time of sale to the consumer.
History: Created 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 264, sec. 23.
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