No person shall offer or expose for sale or have in possession for the purpose of sale any oleomargarine or butterine or suine or any substance in semblance of natural butter or cheese or any substance that is rendered, made, manufactured or compounded out of any animal or vegetable or mineral fat or oil not produced from pure milk or cream from pure milk, unless contained in or sold out of or in tubs, pails, firkins, vessels or other packages marked and labeled as required by §
138-57 of this chapter.
No person shall offer or expose for sale or have in possession for the purpose of sale any mixture or compound of natural butter or cheese with oleomargarine, butterine, suine or any animal or vegetable or mineral fat or oil or any substance not the product of pure milk or cream from pure milk, except that such mixture or compound shall be sold out of or in or contained in tubs, firkins, pails, vessels or packages marked or labeled as required by §
138-57 of this chapter.
No oleomargarine, butterine or suine or any substance or compound
or mixture in imitation or semblance of natural butter or cheese or
any substance that is rendered, made, manufactured or compounded out
of animal or vegetable or mineral fat or oil not the product of pure
milk or cream from pure milk shall be sold or exposed or offered for
sale or held in possession for the purposes of sale except when contained
in tubs, pails, boxes, firkins, vessels or other packages that are
marked or labeled as follows:
A. Every such tub, pail, box, firkin or other vessel or package shall
have painted on the outside thereof and midway between the top and
bottom thereof a stripe or band at least three inches wide and extending
completely around said vessel or package, and said stripe or band
shall be painted with black paint.
B. Every such vessel or package shall have legibly branded and burnt
in by means of a branding or burning iron on the outside of the cover
and on the outside of said vessel or package in two places as nearly
opposite each other as possible the words "oleomargarine," "butterine,"
"suine" or "imitation butter" or "imitation cheese" as the case may
be, and said name or title shall be composed of Roman letters at least
1/2 an inch high and at least 1/4 of an inch broad, and said name
or title shall be at least 10 inches long.
C. Every such tub, pail, box, firkin or other vessel or package shall
bear a label or shall have branded on it a mark giving the name and
address of the maker of the contents thereof and the name and location
of the manufactory.
No person shall sell any oleomargarine, butterine, suine or
any substance or semblance of natural butter or cheese or any substance
that is rendered, made, manufactured or compounded out of any animal
or vegetable or mineral fat or oil not produced from pure milk or
the cream from pure milk at retail or in quantities less than the
original tub, firkin or other package, unless he shall first inform
the purchaser that the substance is not natural butter or cheese,
but is imitation butter or cheese, and at the time of sale and with
each sale, he shall give to the purchaser a card or notice printed
on which shall be the name of the substance sold and the name and
address of the seller or vendor, and nothing else shall be printed
thereon unless it is the weight of the parcel; and said notice or
card shall be at least six inches long and at least four inches wide,
and the printing thereon shall be in letters at least of the size
known as two-line English, and said notice or card shall be printed
in black and in the English language, upon white paper, plainly and
legibly, and shall be either upon the outside of the outer wrapper
in which the substance is delivered to the purchaser or upon a separate
card or paper attached thereto; in either case the notice shall be
so placed that no part thereof shall be concealed from view.
No person shall offer or expose for sale or sell or have in
possession for the purpose of sale any oleomargarine, butterine, suine
or any substance in imitation or natural butter or cheese or any substance
that is rendered, made, manufactured or compounded out of any animal
or vegetable or mineral fat or oil not produced from pure milk or
cream from pure milk that is colored, stained or mixed with annotto
or any coloring matter or substance.
For the purpose of this chapter, the terms "natural butter"
or "natural butter or cheese" shall be taken to mean the product or
products usually known by these names and which are made and manufactured
exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with salt or salt and rennet,
and with or without coloring matter or sage; and the terms "oleomargarine,"
"butterine," "suine" or "substance in imitation or semblance of natural
butter or cheese" shall be taken to mean any substance that is rendered,
made, manufactured or compounded out of any animal or vegetable or
mineral oil or fat not the product of pure milk or the cream from
pure milk, and also any compound or mixture of natural butter or cheese
or milk or cream with any of these substances not milk or cream.