(a) A declaration of weight or measure in U.S. customary units may be supplemented by a declaration in units of the metric system.
(b) A declaration of quantity in terms of count shall be supplemented by a declaration of the weight, measure or size of the individual units of the commodity or of the total weight or measure of the commodity, unless a declaration of count alone is fully informative to the consumer.
(c) A declaration of quantity in terms of weight or measure shall be supplemented by a declaration of the count or size of the individual units of the commodity, unless a declaration of weight or measure alone is fully informative to the consumer.
(d) All information required to appear on a package shall appear thereon in the English language.
(e) The height of any letter or number in the required quantity declaration shall be not less than that shown in Table 1 with respect to the square-inch area of the panel, and the height of each number of a common fraction shall meet one-half the minimum height standards.
(f) Variations from the declared net weight, measure or count shall be permitted when caused by unavoidable deviations in weighing, measuring or counting the contents of individual packages that occur in good packaging practice, but such variations shall not be permitted to such an extent that the average of the quantities in the packages of a particular commodity comprising either a shipment or other delivery of the commodity or a lot of the commodity that is kept, offered or exposed for sale, or sold, is below the quantity stated, and no unreasonable shortage in any package shall be permitted, even though overages in other packages in the same shipment, delivery or lot compensate for such shortage. Variations above the declared quantity shall not be unreasonably large.
(g) Whenever any commodity or service is sold or is offered, exposed or advertised for sale by weight, measure or count, the price shall not be misrepresented, nor shall the price be represented in any manner calculated or tending to mislead or deceive an actual or prospective purchaser. Whenever an advertised, posted or labeled price per unit of weight, measure or count includes a fraction of a cent, all elements of the fraction shall be prominently displayed and the numeral or numerals expressing the fraction shall be immediately adjacent to, of the same general design and style as and at least one half the height and width of the numerals representing the whole cents.
(1952 Code § 26-3-4; Ord. 391-70)