No person shall:
(a) Use or have in possession for use in commerce any incorrect weight or measure;
(b) Remove any tag, seal, or mark from any weight or measure without specific written authorization from the proper authority;
(c) Hinder or obstruct any weights and measures official in the performance of his or her duties;
(d) Obstruct the Commissioner in the performance of any of the duties imposed upon said Commissioner by the provisions of this chapter;
(e) Sell, offer or expose, use or keep to be used, any weight or measure for weighing or measuring any article bought or sold or offered or exposed for sale, which is liable to indicate false or inaccurate weight or measure, or which does not conform to the standard established by law;
(f) Sell, offer or expose any weight or measure for weighing and/or measuring of products for sale without said weight or measure having been tested, marked and sealed by the Commissioner;
(g) Sell, offer or expose with intent to use the same for weighing and/or measuring products for sale, alter a weight or measure, after said weight or measure has been tested, marked and sealed by the Commissioner, if said alteration shall cause the device to fail to conform to the standards of this chapter;
(h) Sell, offer or expose for sale any product of any kind, the packaging and sale of which are under the person’s control, in quantities of less weight, measure, or count than the weight, measure or count represented to be contained on said package;
(i) Sell, offer or expose for sale less than the quantity he or she represents, nor take any more than the quantity he or she represents when, as buyer, he or she furnishes the weight or measure by means of which the quantity is determined;
(j) Misrepresent the price of any commodity or service sold, offered, exposed, or advertised for sale by weight, measure, or count, nor represent the price in any manner calculated or tending to mislead or in any way deceive a person.
(Ord. No. 1668-91. Passed 10-21-91, eff. 10-28-91)