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§ 20-576 City sealer.
The commissioner, or such officer or employee in the department as he or she may designate, shall have all of the powers and perform all of the duties of a sealer of weights and measures pursuant to section one hundred eighty of the agriculture and markets law.
§ 20-577 Inspectors of markets, weights and measures.
   a.   The commissioner shall have power and it shall be his or her duty to appoint a chief inspector of markets, weights and measures and inspectors of markets, weights and measures. The title of inspectors of live poultry and weighmasters shall be abolished and all persons occupying those titles shall henceforth have the title of inspector of markets, weights and measures, with all the powers and duties of that title. Wherever any reference to the title or duties of inspector of live poultry or weighmaster appears in this code, the title or duties of inspector of markets, weights and measures shall be substituted therefor.
   b.   Each inspector is hereby authorized and empowered, subject to the regulations of the department, to enforce any law, rule or regulation pertaining to the weights and dimensions of vehicles and to proceed under the provisions of article one hundred fifty of the criminal procedure law, in the same manner and with like force and effect as a police officer in respect to procuring, countersigning and serving the appearance tickets referred to therein in cases arising out of the enforcement of any such law, rule or regulation.
§ 20-578 Bureau of weights and measures.
There shall be a bureau of weights and measures in the department under the supervision of the chief inspector of weights and measures.
§ 20-579 Employees not to engage in business.
It shall be unlawful for the commissioner or any officer or employee of such bureau, to engage in the business of manufacturing, vending or selling any weighing or measuring device, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each offense.
§ 20-580 Return of department property.
Whenever any inspector shall resign or be removed from office, he or she shall deliver at the office of the commissioner all the standard weights and measures and other official property in his or her possession.
§ 20-581 Inspecting.
   a.   Each inspector of markets, weights and measures is hereby authorized to inspect, examine, test and seal at least once in each year, and as often as the commissioner may deem proper, all weighing and measuring devices. Upon the written request of any resident of the city, the commissioner shall test or cause to be tested, within a reasonable time after the receipt of such request, the weighing or measuring devices used in buying or selling by the person making such request. All such appliances shall be marked by the inspector with the initials of his or her name and the date on which the same shall be sealed and marked.
   b.   Such books shall be open for inspection at all reasonable times to any police officer, inspector or person duly authorized by the commissioner, or by any judge of the criminal court of the city of New York.
§ 20-582 Reports of inspectors.
Each inspector shall report promptly to the commissioner the names of all persons whose weighing and measuring devices shall be found to be incorrect. Each inspector shall file a daily report with the commissioner, and make such other and further reports and keep such further records as may be required, from time to time, by the commissioner.
§ 20-583 Certificate of inspection.
Each inspector shall furnish a certificate to the owner of the weights or measures inspected, and shall keep a record of each certificate given on a corresponding stub. The certificates and corresponding stubs shall be numbered consecutively. The books containing the stubs, after the corresponding certificates have been given out, shall be a public record. The commissioner, when required, shall certify extracts from such records.
§ 20-584 Testing, sealing and marking.
It shall be unlawful to use any weighing or measuring device unless the same shall have been tested, sealed and marked by the commissioner or an inspector of such bureau.
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