§ 47-3-2 - Use of unsealed weights or measures – Alteration – Refusal to allow examination – Adjustable face.
SECTION 47-3-2
§ 47-3-2 Use of unsealed weights ormeasures – Alteration – Refusal to allow examination –Adjustable face. – Every person engaged in the trade of buying and selling, or of selling, or as apublic weigher, who shall use or permit to be used for him or her, or have inhis or her possession at his or her place of business, or upon any cart, wagon,or other vehicle which is used by him or her in carrying on his or herbusiness, or upon his or her person while engaged in his or her business, anyweight, measure, balance, or scale of whatever description, unless the weight,measure, balance, or scale shall have been duly sealed in conformity with theprovisions of chapters 1 and 2 of this title, and every person who alters anyweight, measure, balance, or scale after it has been duly sealed, so that itdoes not conform to the United States standard, or has in his or her possessionany weight, measure, balance, or scale, which has been so altered, and everyperson who shall use or permit to be used for him or her, or have in his or herpossession, as aforesaid, any weight, measure, balance, or scale which he orshe has refused to allow to be examined or sealed by the sealer of weights andmeasures, or deputy sealer, according to the provisions of chapters 1 and 2 ofthis title, or who shall use or permit to be used for him or her or have in hisor her possession any spring balance having a sliding or adjustable face plateor index, or any measure not made of the shape or dimensions required by law,shall be fined the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense, one-half( 1/2) thereof to the use of the town or city in which the offense shall havebeen committed, and one-half ( 1/2) thereof to the complainant.