ARTICLE 2 INSPECTOR OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

SECTION:

28-2-1: Duties Performed By Village Clerk

28-2-2: Annual Inspection; Seal And Certificate Of Accuracy; Table Of Tolerances

28-2-3: Register To Be Kept

28-2-4: Reports Of Violation Of Chapter

28-2-5: Sale Of Weights And Measures Prohibited

28-2-6: Police Powers Generally; Right Of Entry

28-2-7: Power To Arrest And Seize Property

28-2-8: Condemnation, Adjustment And Seizure Of Incorrect Weights And Measures

28-2-9: Inspection Fees; Schedule

28-2-10: Inspection Fees; Limitation

28-2-11: Inspection Fees; Disposition, Report To The Village Manager

28-2-12: Resignation Or Removal From Office

28-2-13: Interference, Impersonation Prohibited

28-2-1: DUTIES PERFORMED BY VILLAGE CLERK:

The Village Clerk is made the Inspector of Weights and Measures and shall be responsible for all duties required by this chapter, the statutes of the state and the regulations of the director of insurance of the state. Deputy inspectors may be appointed by the Clerk to perform the duties set forth in this article. (1981 Code)

28-2-2: ANNUAL INSPECTION; SEAL AND CERTIFICATE OF ACCURACY; TABLE OF TOLERANCES:

It shall be the duty of the Inspector of Weights and Measures to inspect and examine not less than once in each year all weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances, steelyards and other instruments used for weighing and measuring in the Village and to stamp with a suitable seal all weights, scales, measures and weighing and measuring devices so used which are found accurate, and deliver to the owner thereof a certificate of their accuracy. The Inspector shall also provide a table of tolerances and specifications in conformity with those approved by the national bureau of standards. Any person who shall wilfully remove, destroy or in any manner erase any stamp or seal of inspection from any scale, weight or measure shall be punished as provided in section 1-1-5 of this code. (1981 Code)

28-2-3: REGISTER TO BE KEPT:

It shall be the duty of the Inspector of Weights and Measures to make a register of all the weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances, steelyards and other instruments used for weighing, inspected and sealed by him, in which shall be stated the names of the owners of the same, and whether they are in conformity to the standards of the State.

28-2-4: REPORTS OF VIOLATION OF CHAPTER:

It shall be the duty of the Inspector of Weights and Measures to report forthwith to the Corporation Counsel the names and places of business of all persons violating any of the provisions of this Chapter, and of all persons making use of any fraudulent or unsealed weights or measures, gauges or balances.

28-2-5: SALE OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES PROHIBITED:

It shall be unlawful for the Inspector of Weights and Measures to vend any weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances, steelyards or other instruments to be used for weighing, or to offer or expose the same for sale, or be interested directly or indirectly in the sale of the same in the Village.

28-2-6: POLICE POWERS GENERALLY; RIGHT OF ENTRY:

The Inspector of Weights and Measures and any authorized deputies are hereby made Special Police (allowed under Section 19-2-1 of this Code) and shall have the power to, and shall from time to time, weigh or measure and inspect packages or amounts of commodities of whatsoever kind kept for the purpose of sale, offered or exposed for sale, or sold or in the process of delivery in order to determine whether the same contain the amounts represented, and whether they be offered for sale or sold in accordance with the laws in relation to weights and measures, and may, for the purposes above mentioned, and in the general performance of their official duties, enter and go into or upon any stand, place, building or premises, or stop any vendor, peddler, junk dealer, coal wagon, ice wagon, delivery wagon or conveyance of any kind, or any person whatsoever, and require him, if necessary, to go to some convenient place which the Inspector of Weights and Measures or any of his deputies may specify, for the purpose of making proper tests.

28-2-7: POWER TO ARREST AND SEIZE PROPERTY:

The Inspector of Weights and Measures and any authorized deputies shall have the same powers as are now held by, or may from time to time be conferred on, regular police to arrest, with or without formal warrant, any violator of this Chapter in relation to weights and measures, and to seize for use as evidence, with or without formal warrant, any false or unsealed weight, measure or weighing or measuring device or package or amounts of commodities found to be used, retained or offered or exposed for sale or sold in violation of this Chapter.

28-2-8: CONDEMNATION, ADJUSTMENT AND SEIZURE OF INCORRECT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES:

the Inspector shall examine, inspect and seal all weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances, steelyards and other instruments used for weighing at the stores and places where the same may be used. In case they, or any of them, shall not be in conformity to the standard of the State, they shall be marked "condemned", and the owner thereof shall within ten (10) days thereafter have the same properly adjusted and sealed; the Inspector may, at any time after the expiration of the time aforesaid, seize and destroy any and all such condemned weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances, steelyards and other instruments used for weighing which may be found in use.