Section 14-603 - "Gold plate" and similar gold content merchandise. - Maryland Statutes

§ 14-603. "Gold plate" and similar gold content merchandise.
 

A person may not sell, manufacture for sale, or possess with intent to sell any item of merchandise made in whole or in part of inferior metal which has deposited or plated on it or brazed or otherwise affixed to it a plate, plating, covering, or sheet of gold or gold alloy, and which has stamped on it, on a tag attached to it, or on a package in which it is contained, any word or mark usually employed to indicate the fineness of gold, unless the word or mark is accompanied by other words which plainly indicate that the item or some part of it is made of rolled gold plate, gold plate, or gold electroplate or is gold filled, as the case may be. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 27, § 221; 1975, ch. 49, § 3.]