Section 57-18-19 – Reweighing.
Duly authorized representatives of the director may at any time require a loaded or unloaded vehicle to proceed to the nearest vehicle scale for the purpose of verifying the gross or tare weight of the vehicle. History: 1953 Comp., § 76-4-19, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 236, § 19.
Section 57-18-20 – Livestock sales.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Weighmaster Act, livestock shall be weighed by a weighmaster where livestock is sold on the basis of weight at a public salesyard, or by or at any livestock market, market agency or dealer subject to the federal Packers and Stockyards Act. History: 1953 Comp., § 76-4-20, enacted by Laws […]
Section 57-18-21 – Salvage materials.
Scrap metal and salvage material shall be weighed by a weighmaster where scrap metal and salvage materials are purchased or sold by dealers, brokers or commission merchants on the basis of weight obtained from a vehicle scale. History: 1953 Comp., § 76-4-21, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 236, § 21.
Section 57-18-22 – Prohibited acts.
No person shall perform the duties or acts to be performed by a weighmaster under the Weighmaster Act or shall hold himself out as a weighmaster, issue any weight certificate, ticket, memorandum or statement for which a fee is charged, unless he holds a valid license as a weighmaster or a deputy weighmaster. History: 1953 […]
Section 57-18-23 – Suspension and revocation of license.
The director is authorized to suspend or revoke the license of any weighmaster or a deputy weighmaster when: A. he is satisfied, after a hearing upon ten days’ notice to the licensee, that the licensee has violated any provision of the Weighmaster Act or any valid regulations of the board affecting licensed weighmasters; or B. […]
Section 57-18-24 – Offenses and penalties.
Any person who requests a weighmaster to weigh any property, produce, commodity or article falsely or incorrectly, or who requests a false or incorrect weight certificate, or who issues a weight certificate simulating the weight certificate prescribed in the Weighmaster Act, and who is not a weighmaster, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction […]
Section 57-18-25 – Offenses and penalties; malfeasance.
Any licensed weighmaster or deputy weighmaster who falsifies a weight certificate, or who delegates his authority to any person not licensed as a weighmaster or deputy weighmaster, or who signs a weight certificate with his official signature before performing the act of weighing, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction he shall be punished […]
Section 57-18-26 – Offenses and penalties; general.
Any person who violates any provision of the Weighmaster Act or any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto for which no specific penalty has been provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction he shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). […]
Section 57-18-16 – Copies of weight certificate.
A weighmaster shall keep and preserve for at least one year a legible copy of each weight certificate issued by him. Copies of weight certificates shall be kept open to the inspection by any weights and measures officer of this state. History: 1953 Comp., § 76-4-16, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 236, § 16. ANNOTATIONS […]
Section 57-18-17 – Reciprocal acceptance of weight certificates.
Whenever there is statutory authority in any other state which licenses weighmasters, for the recognition and acceptance of the weight certificates issued by licensed weighmasters of this state, the director of this state is authorized to recognize and accept the weight certificates of the other state. History: 1953 Comp., § 76-4-17, enacted by Laws 1973, […]