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 premises, scales suitable for weighing such commodity, produce, or article of merchandise, and shall, whenever requested by the buyer and in the buyer's presence, weigh the commodity, produce or article of merchandise sold or offered for sale.
Whenever meat, poultry or other articles of merchandise sold by weight and prepared or wrapped in advance of being sold, by the retailer, are being offered for sale, an accurate computing scale of adequate capacity shall be placed or set no more than thirty feet (30') from the prepackaged display counter or service area. A prominent and conspicuous sign shall be placed on or adjacent to the computing scale, such sign shall read 'for customer use', in a type size no less than two inches (2") in height. Where the pre-packaged 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 no less than twelve-point, shall be prominently and conspicuously displayed.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Section shall be fined not less than twenty five dollars ($25.00), nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), for each offense.