(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to offer or expose for sale, sell, use in buying or selling of any commodity or thing, or for hire or reward, or retain in his or her possession a false weight or measure or measuring or weighing device, or any weight or measure or weighing or measuring device which has not been sealed as provided by state statutes.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer or expose for sale less than the quantity or measurement he or she represents.
(c) The health officer and the sanitary officer and their deputies and assistants and any other person specially appointed for that purpose by the city council are authorized and empowered to inspect and test all weights and measures and weighing and measuring devices kept, offered or exposed for sale, sold or used by any person in proving or ascertaining the size, quantity, extent, area or measurement of quantities, things, produce or articles of distribution or consumption purchased or offered or submitted by the person for sale, hire or reward.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 9.1106; 1992 Code, § 26-14) Penalty, see § 130.999
Statutory reference:
Enforcement of weights and measures standards, see SDCL ch. 37-21
Standard weights and measures, see SDCL ch. 37-20