No person shall sell, offer to sell or expose for sale seed potatoes that do not conform to the standards and allowable tolerances set forth in the rules and regulations established by the division of markets in the department. The director of the division of markets may when disease free stock is not available waive the provisions of this section for such periods of time as he may deem necessary. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 128, § 101