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Elyria, OH Code of Ordinances
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF ELYRIA, OHIO
DIRECTORY OF OFFICIALS (2024)
PRELIMINARY UNIT
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ELYRIA, OHIO
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
CHAPTER 703 Alarm Systems
CHAPTER 704 Amusement Devices
CHAPTER 705 Billposters and Distributors
CHAPTER 709 Boxing and Wrestling
CHAPTER 711 Cable Service and Competitive Video Service
CHAPTER 713 Circuses and Carnivals
CHAPTER 715 Sweepstakes Terminal Café
CHAPTER 717 Dances
CHAPTER 721 Distress Merchandise Sales
CHAPTER 725 Fair Housing Practices
CHAPTER 729 Juke Boxes
CHAPTER 733 Junk Yards
CHAPTER 734 Medical Marijuana Entities
CHAPTER 735 Massage Parlor Establishments
CHAPTER 736 Motor Vehicle Salvage Dealers
CHAPTER 737 Peddlers, Canvassers and Solicitors
CHAPTER 741 Railroads
CHAPTER 745 Rummage Sales
CHAPTER 746 Sexually Oriented Businesses; Licensing and Operation
CHAPTER 747 Tattoo or Body Piercing Establishments
CHAPTER 749 Taxicabs
CHAPTER 750 Taxicabs
CHAPTER 753 Temporary Stores
CHAPTER 757 Weapons Sales
CHAPTER 761 Weights and Measures
PART NINE - STREETS AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
CHAPTER 761
Weights and Measures
761.01   Duty of Sealer of Weights and Measures.
761.02   Sealing or marking correct weight.
761.03   Weighing on Sealer's scales.
761.04   Property of Sealer.
761.05   Records and reports.
761.06   Right to enter premises.
761.07   Police power.
761.08   Resisting the Sealer.
761.09   Repairs.
761.10   Testing of measuring and weight devices.
761.11   Marking of devices.
761.12   Position of scales.
761.13   Inspecting and sealing fees.
761.14   False or inaccurate weights.
761.15   Unlawful acts generally.
761.16   State standards.
761.17   Selling by short weight prohibited.
761.18   Weight certificates.
761.19   False weights.
761.20   Measures for fruits and vegetables.
761.21   Duty to notify Sealer.
761.22   Labeling of weights.
761.23   Commodities sold in original packages.
761.24   Persons quoting prices shall quote weight.
761.25   Sale of foodstuffs in used containers.
761.26   Contents of memorandum of sale.
761.27   Ice.
 
761.99   Penalty.
   CROSS REFERENCES
   Power to regulate - see Ohio R.C. 715.45
   Municipal sealer - see Ohio R.C. 733.63 et seq.
   Weights and measures - see Ohio R.C. Ch. 1327
   Sale of coke or coal by weight - see Ohio R.C. 1327.21 et seq.
   Fees of the Bureau of Weights and Measures - see ADM. 109.16 
761.01 DUTY OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
   It shall be the duty of the City Sealer of Weights and Measures, hereinafter referred to as the City Sealer, to test all weights, measures, yardstick, tapelines or other linear measures, beams, steelyards, platform scales, computing scales, gasoline, oil and other measuring pumps, and other machinery or appliances, utensils or receptacles used for weighing or measuring articles or commodities to be bought or sold within the City, at least once in every six months or as often as possible, at the places where the same are used, when practicable to do so, otherwise at the office of the City Sealer during office hours. It shall also be the duty of the City Sealer to inspect and examine from time to time all weights, measures, scales, beams, steelyards, platform scales, computing scales, or other machinery or appliances, utensils and receptacles used for the weighing or measuring of any article or commodity on the public markets of the City.
(Ord. 4799. Passed 12-17-56.)
761.02 SEALING OR MARKING CORRECT WEIGHT.
   If the City Sealer finds the weights and measures referred to in Section 761.01 to be correct, according to the standards established by the Ohio Department of Agriculture he shall seal or mark the same with a seal or stamp, or by pasting a seal thereon, or with a tag showing that the weighing or measuring device has been tested, or in any other manner that he may deem proper. The character or letter and figures to be stamped thereon shall be E.C.S., meaning Elyria City Standard, and the date or year in which it was stamped or sealed shall also be included.
(Ord. 4799. Passed 12-17-56.)
761.03 WEIGHING ON SEALER'S SCALES.
   It shall be the duty of the City Sealer to require any persons within the City, who are selling or delivering or offering to sell or deliver, coal, coke, flour, feed, hay, straw or any other commodity provided for in this chapter, to weigh their coal, coke, flour, feed, hay, straw or any other commodity in the City Sealer's presence upon scales which have been properly tested and sealed by him, within time required of the City Sealer by the Ohio Department of Agriculture, previous to the weighing herein provided.
(Ord. 4799. Passed 12-17-56.)
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