(a) No person, firm or corporation, except as hereinafter provided, shall deliver any coal or coke, which is sold by weight, unless the driver or person actually making the delivery, shall be possessed of a certificate in writing, or partly written and partly printed, together with a duplicate or carbon copy thereof, which certificate shall contain the following:
(1) Name of licensee coal merchant and number of license.
(2) Address of location of office from which the fuel is delivered.
(3) Address of purchaser.
(4) Name of person actually making the delivery.
(5) Weight of vehicle.
(6) Name or identifying initials of the party who weighed it.
(7) Net weight of the fuel.
(8) Kind of fuel delivered.
(9) Kinds of weight of each, if fuel is mixed.
Said certificate shall be in exact conformity with the facts and weight of the vehicle shall have been ascertained on the day of delivery.
(b) No person shall engage in the delivery of fuel sold by weight except as provided, without having at all times with him the duplicate certificates above mentioned and he shall deliver one of said duplicate certificates to the purchaser at the same time the delivery of the fuel is made, and shall show such certificate, or certificates or duplicates thereof, to the Sealer of Weights and Measures or any of his deputies, or to any police officer of the City, whenever demanded and both the driver and the licensee for whom he is working may be proceeded against for any violation of these provisions.
(c) This section shall not be applicable in those cases in which the licensee has sold and is delivering the entire carload of fuel to one party without reweighing or measuring the same but in those cases the licensee shall deliver to the purchaser immediately upon delivery of such fuel a duplicate copy of the licensee’s bill of lading or invoice of the weight, or an invoice of the quantity of such fuel in case the sale is made other than by weight.
(Ord. 370, passed 1-29-1931)