Sec. 43-16q. Penalties.
Sec. 43-16q. Penalties. (a) Any person who requests a licensed public weigher to
weigh any property, produce, commodity or article falsely or incorrectly, or who requests
a false or incorrect weight certificate, or any person who issues a weight certificate
simulating the weight certificate prescribed in this chapter and who is not a licensed
public weigher, shall, upon conviction for the first offense, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars; and upon a second or subsequent conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars,
or be imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or be both fined
and imprisoned.
(b) Any licensed public weigher who falsifies a weight certificate, or who delegates
his authority to any person not licensed as a licensed public weigher, or who preseals
a weight certificate with his official seal before performing the act of weighing, shall
be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned
not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days or both.
(c) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation
promulgated pursuant thereto for which no specific penalty has been provided shall be
fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
(d) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection, after conducting a hearing in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, may impose a civil penalty of not more than
one hundred dollars for the first offense and of not more than five hundred dollars for
any subsequent offense on any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any
regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter. Each violation with respect to each such
unit, certificate, device or scale shall be considered a separate offense.
(P.A. 77-409, S. 17-19; P.A. 78-331, S. 22-24, 58; P.A. 90-125, S. 9; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 78-331 made technical grammatical correction, substituting "nor" for "or" as necessary; P.A. 90-125
added Subsec. (d) re administrative penalties; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection
with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of
June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection,
effective June 1, 2004.