2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 39 - Trade and Commerce
CHAPTER 17 - CONTAINERS AND GRADES
Section 39-17-310. Standards for grades of watermelons; grading shall be optional.
All watermelons shipped in carload lots from any point within this State as "Graded Melons" shall be graded according to the following standard, that is to say:
Grade 1 shall weigh not less than 44 pounds with car average of not less than 46 pounds;
Grade 2 shall weigh not less than 40 pounds with car average of not less than 42 pounds;
Grade 3 shall weigh not less than 36 pounds with car average of not less than 38 pounds;
Grade 4 shall weigh not less than 32 pounds with car average of not less than 34 pounds;
Grade 5 shall weigh not less than 28 pounds with car average of not less than 30 pounds;
Grade 6 shall weigh not less than 24 pounds with car average of not less than 26 pounds; and
Grade 7 shall weigh not less than 20 pounds with car average of not less than 22 pounds.
Such melons of whatever grade shall have been picked from live vines of a merchantable quality and shall be ripe, free from rotten ends, and from necks and blisters.
The grading of watermelons, as aforesaid, shall be optional with the shippers.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-341; 1952 Code Section 66-341; 1942 Code Section 6674; 1932 Code Section 6674; 1927 (35) 294.
