(A) Every person selling or offering for sale any service commodity, produce or article of merchandise sold by weight shall keep and maintain, in a conspicuous place on his or her premises, scales suitable for weighing the commodity, produce or article of merchandise, and shall, whenever requested by a buyer and in the buyer’s presence, weigh the commodity, produce or article of merchandise.
(B) Whenever meat, poultry or other articles of merchandise sold by weight and prepared or wrapped in advance of being sold by a retailer are being offered for sale, an accurate computing scale of adequate capacity shall be placed or set not more than 30 feet from the prepackaged display counter or service area. A prominent and conspicuous sign shall be placed on or adjacent to the computing scale, which sign shall read “for customer use”, in a type size not less than two inches in height. Where the prepackaged merchandise is marked with weight expressed in the standard avoirdupois pound and decimal fractions thereof, a conversion chart showing the correlation between the decimal fractions and common fractions of the avoirdupois pound, in a type size not less than 12 point, shall be prominently and conspicuously displayed.
(2000 Code, § 5.66.010) Penalty, see § 110.999