(A) It shall be the duty of the Lake County Sealer of Weights and Measures to inspect and examine, once in each year, all weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances, steelyards and other instruments used for weighing and measuring in the city, except track scales and scales of a capacity of 3 tons or upward which shall be inspected once in every 6 months, and to stamp with a suitable seal all weights and measures and scales so used which he may find accurate, and deliver to the owner thereof a certificate of their accuracy.
(B) The Lake County Sealer of Weights and Measures shall not make charges for inspecting and examining weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances, steelyards or other instruments used for weighing more than once in each year, except charges for inspecting and examining track scales of a capacity of 3 tons and upwards, which shall not be made more than once in every 6 months, unless the weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances, steelyards or other instruments used in weighing and measuring shall be found to not conform to the state standard.
(C) In case the items inspected under division (A) above do not conform to the standards of this state, they shall be marked “Condemned,” and the owner thereof shall within 10 days thereafter have the instruments properly adjusted and sealed, and the Lake County Sealer may, at any time after the expiration of the 10-day limit, seize and destroy any and all condemned items used for weighing found in use.
(D) No person shall in any way or manner obstruct, hinder or molest the Lake County Sealer of Weights and Measures in the performance of his or her duties as hereby imposed upon him or her.
(Prior Code, § 126.22) (Am. Ord. 8637, passed 12-14-2004) Penalty, see § 10.99
Statutory reference:
Duties of Sealer, see I.C. 24-6-3-5