§ 24-6-3-9 — Entry without warrant; prosecution; hindrance of inspector

Indiana § 24-6-3-9

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 6: WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND LABELING
• Ch. 3: State and Local Weights and Measures Program

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(a) The division of weights and measures, the
division's agents, deputies, or inspectors, and the county and city
inspectors of weights and measures may go into or upon without formal
warrant any stand, place, building or premises, or may stop any vender,
peddler, junk dealer, coal wagon, ice wagon, or any dealer, for the
purpose of making the proper test and for the purpose of ascertaining
the proper weights and measures of all commodities found therein or
thereon. Whenever the division, the division's agents, deputies, or
inspectors, or the county and city inspectors of weights and measures
find a violation of law relating to weights and measures, the individual
shall cause the violator to be prosecuted.
(b) No person may molest, hinder or obstruct in any way the
division of weights and measures, the division's agents, deputies, or
inspectors, or any county or city inspector of weights and measures in
the performance of official duties.
Formerly: Acts 1925, c.86, s.9. As amended by Acts 1978,
P.L.2, SEC.2419; P.L.2-1992, SEC.757.