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.

28-3-2: APPLICATION FOR LICENSE:

Any person owning a scale suitable for weighing as provided in the preceding Section, desiring to be licensed as a public weighmaster, shall file an application in writing therefor which shall conform to the general requirements of Chapter 8 of this Code relating to applications for licenses, and shall set forth the location of the place of business for which such license is requested. Such application shall contain, plainly printed thereon the following form of agreement, which shall be subscribed to by the applicant before any license shall be issued thereunder:

"The applicant hereby agrees and consents, as a condition for the issuance of a license hereunder, that in case the applicant as a public weighmaster weighs any load lot of any commodity, produce or articles of merchandise sold in load lots by weight, sold or delivered by the applicant or any person directly or indirectly interested with the applicant in the operation of the public scale of the applicant, the Inspector of Weights and Measures of the Village, or any deputies acting under his orders, or the purchaser or consignee shall have the right to reweigh or cause to be reweighed, as provided in this Article, any such load lot of commodity, produce or articles of merchandise. This condition is accepted by the applicant with the understanding that the same shall, upon the issuance of a license hereunder, at once become binding on him."