28-3-4: BOND; ISSUANCE OF LICENSE:

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."

28-3-3: CONTENTS OF LICENSE; PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF CONDITIONS OF LICENSE:

The license issued under the provisions of this Article shall contain apt words indicating that the same is issued and accepted subject to the conditions and agreements hereinbefore set forth and contained in the application for same and subscribed by the licensees, when application for such license is made; and the conditions shall upon the issuance of the license at once become binding on the licensee, his agents and employees, who shall conform to the requirements of the same. Any person or corporation who fails to comply with or violates any of the provisions of this Article, or having received a license under the terms and conditions imposed by this Article, fails to observe the conditions so imposed, shall be liable in addition to any other penalty prescribed by law, to be punished as provided in Section 1-1-5 of this Code.

28-3-4: BOND; ISSUANCE OF LICENSE:

All public weighmasters shall execute a bond in favor of the Village in the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), with such sureties as may be approved by the Director of Finance, conditioned for the faithful performance of such applicant's duties as a public weighmaster, and for the payment by such public weighmaster of any fine which may be imposed upon him for any violation of such applicant's duties as such public weighmaster.

Upon compliance with the conditions above stated and upon payment of the sum provided in Section 8-2-1 of this Code, the Village Clerk may issue a license authorizing such applicant to act as a public weighmaster.

28-3-5: DEPUTY WEIGHMASTERS:

Each public weighmaster shall have the power to appoint all necessary deputies to tend to the scales, but each such deputy weighmaster shall furnish a bond in the same sum and conditioned in the same manner as that furnished by the public weighmaster. Each such deputy weighmaster or the public weighmaster appointing him, shall pay the sum specified in Section 8-2-1 of this Code for an annual license as such deputy weighmaster. Each public weighmaster appointing any deputy weighmaster shall be answerable for any and all acts of such deputy weighmaster in connection with the weighing of any commodity over the scale of such weighmaster; provided, that such responsibility on the part of the public weighmaster shall not relieve the deputy weighmaster of liability for his own acts. Any public weighmaster shall have the right, at any time after the appointment of a deputy by him, to cancel such appointment, and upon cancelling such appointment, it shall be the duty of such public weighmaster to immediately notify the Inspector of Weights and Measures that the appointment of such deputy has been cancelled, and thereupon such deputy shall cease to have any authority to weigh any commodity on the scales of such weighmaster.

28-3-6: DUTY TO PROVIDE OWN SCALES; INSPECTIONS:

Each public weighmaster licensed under the provisions of this Article shall provide his own scales, which shall be of a kind or pattern approved by the Inspector of Weights and Measures, and each such public weighmaster shall keep his scales properly adjusted and repaired at his own expense. It shall be the duty of each public weighmaster to have such scales inspected by the Inspector of Weights and Measures at least once every six (6) months and oftener if required.

28-3-7: CHANGE OF LOCATION AND NEW SCALES:

Public weighmasters or deputy weighmasters shall by virtue of their licenses, be entitled to weigh only over the scale designated in any such license. Every public weighmaster acquiring a new scale after the issuance of his public weighmaster's license and desiring to weigh over such scale shall notify the Village Clerk of the location of such additional scale and thereupon such new location shall be entered by the Village Clerk on the original application for public weighmaster, and the Inspector of Weights and Measures shall be notified by the Village Clerk of such additional scale. If any public weighmaster changes the location of any scale, he shall immediately notify the Inspector of Weights and Measures and secure a transfer of such license for such new location, which transfer shall be issued for the regular transfer fee and without further bond or license fee; provided, however, that any public weighmaster shall have the right, at any time after the appointment of a deputy weighmaster by him, to assign such deputy to weigh over any scale owned by him, the location of which is set forth in his license application or his supplementary license application.

28-3-8: DUTY TO WEIGH ARTICLES TENDERED:

Public weighmasters owning scales suitable for weighing commodities loaded in wagons, trucks or other vehicles shall weigh any commodity, produce or articles of merchandise loaded in any wagon, truck or other vehicle when requested to do so by the person bringing the same to the scale of such weighmaster; public weighmasters owning scales suitable for weighing commodities in amounts or quantities less than load lots when not contained in any wagon, truck or other vehicle, shall weigh any such, commodity when requested to do so by any person bringing the same to the scale of such weighmaster.

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