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.

28-2-9: INSPECTION FEES; SCHEDULE:

The Inspector of Weights and Measures shall receive and collect fees for the use of the Village for service at the following rates, which shall be due and payable at the time of such inspection:

For testing scales of the capacity of 240 to 2,000 pounds, except hopper scales	$3.00
For testing scales of less capacity than 240 pounds	2.00
For testing liquid measures of the capacity of one quart and upwards, each	.50
For testing yard measures, each	.50
For testing linear measure, for each 3' length	.50
For testing any tape line exceeding 50' in length, each	2.00
For testing any automatic machine used for linear measuring, each	2.00
For testing any automatic device used for measuring or dispensing liquids at retail, into vehicle tanks	3.00

 

28-2-10: INSPECTION FEES; LIMITATION:

It shall be unlawful for the Inspector of Weights and Measures to make charges for inspecting and examining weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances, steelyards or other instruments used for weighing more than once in each year, except charges for inspecting and examining truck scales and scales of a capacity of three (3) tons or more, which shall not be made more than once in every six (6) months, unless such weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances, steelyards or other instruments used in weighing and measuring shall be found to be not in conformity to the State standard.

28-2-11: INSPECTION FEES; DISPOSITION, REPORT TO THE VILLAGE MANAGER:

The Inspector of Weights and Measures shall pay over to the Village Treasurer daily all fees, charges, moneys, emoluments or valuable considerations of any kind whatsoever collected or received by him by reason of, for or on account of the performance by him of the duties of his office; and each such payment shall be accompanied by such documentation as may be required by the Village Treasurer. Each month the Inspector of Weights and Measures shall make a report in writing to the Village Manager which report shall show in detail the number and type of inspections made by the Inspector of Weights and Measures during the month preceding the day of such report.

28-2-12: RESIGNATION OR REMOVAL FROM OFFICE:

Whenever the Inspector of Weights and Measures shall resign, be removed from office or leave the Village all the standard beams, weights and measures held or used in the performance of his duties shall be delivered to the office of the Village Clerk.

28-2-13: INTERFERENCE, IMPERSONATION PROHIBITED:

No person shall in any way or manner obstruct, hinder or molest the Inspector of Weights and Measures in the performance of the prescribed duties of the office, or refuse to weigh or measure any article of merchandise or any other commodity whatsoever in order that the Inspector of Weights and Measures may ascertain the weight or measure of said article of merchandise, or any other commodity whatsoever, which may be sold or offered for sale.

It shall be unlawful for any person to falsely represent that he is a Village Inspector or Deputy Village Inspector of Weights and Measures, or to falsely represent that he is authorized to inspect weights and measures by any public officer when not so authorized, or to demand of any person that his weights or measures shall be produced for inspection when not duly authorized by law to make such inspection, or to use a seal in imitation of the Inspector's seal on weights or measures not officially tested. It shall further be unlawful to persuade persons that it is necessary for them to have additional inspections made that are not required by law, either by making misrepresentations concerning the official inspections required by this Chapter or by any other means.

Any persons violating any of the provisions of this Section shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished as provided in Section 1-1-5 of this Code.

ARTICLE 3 PUBLIC WEIGHMASTERS

SECTION:

28-3-1: Eligibility for Appointment

28-3-2: Application for License

28-3-3: Contents of License; Penalty for Violation of Conditions of License

28-3-4: Bond; Issuance of License

28-3-5: Deputy Weighmasters

28-3-6: Duty to Provide Own Scales; Inspections

28-3-7: Change of Location and New Scales

28-3-8: Duty to Weigh Articles Tendered

28-3-9: Attendance at Scales; Compensation for Sunday or Holiday Weighing

28-3-10: Charges for Weighing Generally

28-3-11: Seal Required; Design

28-3-12: Scales to be Used by Deputy

28-3-13: Weight Certificates; Issuance, Contents

28-3-14: Weight Certificates; Recordation

28-3-15: Weight Certificates; Delivery or Posting Before Unloading

28-3-16: Weight Certificates; Alteration

28-3-17: Weight Certificates; Issuance of False Weight Certificates; Penalty

28-3-18: Weight Certificates; Requesting False Weight Certificate; Penalty

28-3-19: Reweighing; Where Weighmaster Weighs Own Commodities

28-3-20: Reweighing; Where Commodities are Not Owned by Weighmaster

28-3-21: Reweighing; Obstructing Prohibited

28-3-22: Meaning of Net Weight

28-3-23: Weighing After License Has Expired

28-3-24: Every Load of Merchandise to be Weighed

28-3-25: Weighing by Others Prohibited

28-3-26: Street Scales

28-3-27: Ice Excluded

28-3-28: Penalty for Violation

28-3-1: ELIGIBILITY FOR APPOINTMENT:

Any person owning a scale suitable for weighing any commodity, produce or articles of merchandise in load lots, when contained in any wagon, truck or other vehicle, or in any quantity less than load lots when not contained in any wagon, truck or other vehicle, shall be eligible for appointment as a public weighmaster in the Village upon complying with the requirements of this Article and the regulations of the Director of Public Health.