§ 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
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§ 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 (½) thereof to the use of the town
or city in which the offense shall have been committed, and one-half (½) thereof to
the complainant.