Rhode Island § 47-3-2 § 47-3-2. Use of unsealed weights or measures — Alteration — Refusal to allow examination — Adjustable face.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 47-3-2 — § 47-3-2. Use of unsealed weights or measures — Alteration — Refusal to allow examination — Adjustable face.

Rhode Island § 47-3-2

Title 47Weights and measures

Ch. 47-3Criminal Offenses

This text of Rhode Island § 47-3-2 (§ 47-3-2. Use of unsealed weights or measures — Alteration — Refusal to allow examination — Adjustable face.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Rhode Island primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

R.I. Gen. Laws § 47-3-2 (2026).

Text

§ 47-3-2. Use of unsealed weights or measures — Alteration — Refusal to allow examination —
               Adjustable face.
Every person engaged in the trade of buying and selling, or of selling, or as a public
            weigher, who shall use or permit to be used for him or her, or have in his or her
            possession at his or her place of business, or upon any cart, wagon, or other vehicle
            which is used by him or her in carrying on his or her business, or upon his or her
            person while engaged in his or her business, any weight, measure, balance, or scale
            of whatever description, unless the weight, measure, balance, or scale shall have
            been duly sealed in conformit

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

§ 47-3-2. Use of unsealed weights or measures — Alteration — Refusal to allow examination — Adjustable face.

Every person engaged in the trade of buying and selling, or of selling, or as a public weigher, who shall use or permit to be used for him or her, or have in his or her possession at his or her place of business, or upon any cart, wagon, or other vehicle which is used by him or her in carrying on his or her business, or upon his or her person while engaged in his or her business, any weight, measure, balance, or scale of whatever description, unless the weight, measure, balance, or scale shall have been duly sealed in conformity with the provisions of chapters 1 and 2 of this title, and every person who alters any weight, measure, balance, or scale after it has been duly sealed, so that it does not conform to the United States standard, or has in his or her possession any weight, measure, balance, or scale, which has been so altered, and every person who shall use or permit to be used for him or her, or have in his or her possession, as aforesaid, any weight, measure, balance, or scale which he or she has refused to allow to be examined or sealed by the sealer of weights and measures, or deputy sealer, according to the provisions of chapters 1 and 2 of this title, or who shall use or permit to be used for him or her or have in his or her possession any spring balance having a sliding or adjustable face plate or index, or any measure not made of the shape or dimensions required by law, shall be fined the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense, one-half (Â½) thereof to the use of the town or city in which the offense shall have been committed, and one-half (Â½) thereof to the complainant.

Legislative History

G.L. 1896, ch. 167, § 16; P.L. 1902, ch. 974, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch. 194, § 16; G.L. 1923, ch. 221, § 16; G.L. 1938, ch. 407, § 15; G.L. 1956, § 47-3-2; P.L. 1980, ch. 340, § 1.