For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COUNTY INSPECTOR. The person or persons duly authorized to inspect goods and commodities and weighing or measuring instruments in Lake County.
GOODS AND COMMODITIES. All items of merchandise, supplies, raw materials, or finished goods and those things, which are useful or serviceable, particularly articles of merchandise movable in trade. This definition includes but is not limited to all packaged items.
INSTRUMENT. Any scale, beam, measure or weighing or weighing or measuring device of every kind, instruments or mechanical devices for measurement and the tools, appliances or accessories connected with any or all such instruments or measurements subject to regulation by the County Department of Weights and Measures.
MAJOR REPAIR. Work done where the integrity of the instrument is compromised and shall include, but not be limited to, a broken lead and wire seal, a scale adjustment due to inaccurate readings, and a gasoline dispenser shut down because of leaks.
PACKAGE or PACKAGED ITEM. Any commodity:
(1) Enclosed in a container or wrapped in any manner in advance of wholesale or retail sale; or
(2) Whose weight or measure has been determined in advance of wholesale or retail sale. An individual item or lot of any commodity on which there is a selling price based on an established price per unit of weight or a measure or of measure.
PERSON. Include but not be limited to, any corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, agent, lessee, individual, or employee placing in service, using or employing a weighing or measuring instrument or who is engaged in selling, buying, bartering or exchanging of goods or commodities within the county.
REPAIR PERSON. An individual engaged in the business of repairing or installing weighing or measuring instruments used within the county.
(Ord. 1198C, passed 12-14-1999; Ord. 1208B, passed 10-10-2000; Ord. 1209B, passed 11-14-2000; Ord. 1258C, passed 12-14-2004; Ord. 1260A, passed 2-8-2005; Ord. 1264C, passed 6-13-2005; Ord. 1264D, passed 6-13-2005)