47-26-1016 - Scale used Capacity, platform size, one-draft weighing.

47-26-1016. Scale used Capacity, platform size, one-draft weighing.

(a)  A public weighmaster shall not weigh a vehicle, or combination of vehicles, when part of the vehicle or connected combination, is not resting fully, completely, and as one (1) entire unit on the scale.

(b)  When weighing a combination of vehicles that will not rest fully, completely, and as one (1) complete unit on the scale platform:

     (1)  The combination shall be disconnected and weighed in single drafts; and

     (2)  The weights of the single drafts may be combined in order to issue a single certificate for the combination; provided, that the certificate indicates that the total represents a combination of single draft weighings.

[Acts 1997, ch. 311, § 2.]