---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 241"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "241"
heading: "Penalty for selling lime in unmarked barrels and containers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/241"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time"
  - "Subchapter VI — Standard Barrels"
---

# §241. Penalty for selling lime in unmarked barrels and containers


It shall be unlawful to pack, sell, or offer for sale for shipment from any [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) or Territory or the District of Columbia, any barrels or other containers of lime which are not marked as provided in sections [238](/usc/15/238.md) and [239](/usc/15/239.md) of this title, or to sell, charge for, or purport to deliver from any [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) or Territory or the District of Columbia, as a large or small barrel or a fractional part of said small barrel of lime, any less weight of lime than is established by the provisions of sections [237](/usc/15/237.md) to [242](/usc/15/242.md) of this title and any [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) guilty of a violation of the provisions of said sections shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to a fine not exceeding $100.


## Source credit

(Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 5, 39 Stat. 531.)