(a) No person shall issue or aid in issuing any bill of lading or other document of like nature in lieu thereof, which bill or document is to accompany a shipment of goods or property by truck, trailer, semitrailer, commercial tractor, or any other commercial vehicle used for the transportation of property, the gross weight of which, with load, exceeds three tons, with intent to defraud by misrepresenting thereon the weight of such goods or property to be transported.
(b) Any driver or operator of a commercial car, trailer or semitrailer may obtain from any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association, including the owner, lessee, or operator of such commercial car, trailer or semitrailer, owning and operating sealed scales in this State, a written “statement of gross vehicle weight” showing the gross weight of the vehicle including the cargo on the vehicle, the name and address of the person issuing the statement, and the date and place where the vehicle and its cargo were weighed. The driver or operator of the commercial car, trailer, or semitrailer shall retain such statement of gross vehicle weight on his person, and any law enforcement officer of this City may request that such driver or operator exhibit it to him. If, upon examining the statement of gross vehicle weight, the law enforcement officer has reason to believe that the information contained therein is correct in every respect, he shall endorse it with his name and the date and place where it was exhibited to him. The law enforcement officer may the permit such driver or operator to proceed without weighing by a law enforcement officer of this City. No person shall willfully issue a written statement of gross vehicle weight and knowingly give any false information in such statement.
(c) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00); or imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both.
(Ord. 189-00. Passed 11-27-00.)