12700. A weighmaster is any person who, for hire or otherwise, weighs, measures, or counts any commodity and issues a statement or memorandum of the weight, measure, or count which is used as the basis for either the purchase or sale of that commodity or charge for service. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1984, Ch. […]
12700.5. (a) A weighmaster is not required to provide weighing services to the general public. (b) Weighing for hire is at the discretion of the weighmaster. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 646, Sec. 4.)
12701. The following persons are not weighmasters: (a) Retailers weighing, measuring, or counting commodities for sale by them in retail stores in the presence of, and directly to, consumers. (b) Except for persons subject to Section 12730, producers of agricultural commodities or livestock, who weigh commodities produced or purchased by them or by their producer neighbors, when […]
12702. “Weighmaster,” when used without qualification, includes a deputy weighmaster. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 646, Sec. 4.)
12703. Except as provided in Section 12701, no person shall perform any acts described in Section 12700, unless licensed as a weighmaster pursuant to this chapter and unless the current license fee and any penalty has been paid. The weighmaster shall forward to the department the name or names of deputy weighmasters with the appropriate […]
12703.1. (a) In addition to any other requirements for issuance of a license pursuant to this chapter, if the applicant is a recycler or junk dealer as defined in Section 21601, the department shall require the applicant to furnish all of the following information accurately on any application for a new license or the renewal of […]
12704. (a) A weighmaster shall pay to the department the following license fee for each license year as applicable to the operation: (1) Seventy-five dollars ($75) if the weighmaster is operating at a fixed location. (2) Thirty dollars ($30) for each additional fixed location at which the weighmaster is operating. (3) Two hundred dollars ($200) if the weighmaster is […]
12705. Any change in the legal entity of a licensed weighmaster requires the new legal entity to obtain a weighmaster license before operating as a weighmaster. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 646, Sec. 4.)
12706. (a) The secretary may assign or reassign dates for the expiration of licenses for any weighmaster. (b) The secretary may establish a license year for any weighmaster consisting of any period from one month to 11 months, inclusive, with subsequent renewals being required at yearly intervals thereafter. (c) Whenever the license year is less than 12 months […]
12707. Each license required by this chapter shall be renewed annually, on or before the first day of the first month of the licensee’s license year, by application to the secretary, accompanied by the annual license fee. An application and annual license fee sent by mail is not overdue if postmarked not later than the […]
12708. The secretary may refuse to grant any license provided for by this chapter, or may refuse to renew any license, and may revoke or suspend any license when, after a hearing conducted pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the […]
12709. (a) All license fees collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund to be expended by the department for the administration and enforcement of this chapter, except as provided in subdivision (b). (b) License fees collected pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 12704 shall be deposited in a […]
12710. A weighmaster may employ or designate any person to act for the weighmaster as a deputy weighmaster and shall be responsible for all acts performed by that person. (Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 297, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1993.)
12710.5. (a) At any time during the license year, any weighmaster may replace deputies without payment of additional fees by forwarding to the department the name of any replacement deputy and replaced deputy. (b) Any weighmaster who does not furnish to the department a deputy name as required by this section is guilty of an infraction, and, […]
12711. A weighmaster shall issue a weighmaster certificate whenever payment for the commodity or service represented is dependent on a written or printed weight, measure, or count. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 646, Sec. 4.)
12712. (a) A weighmaster certificate may be signed and issued by a weighmaster other than the weighmaster actually determining the weight, measure, or count of any commodity, if both of the following conditions are met: (1) The weighmaster issuing the certificate does so based on information received from the weighmaster who actually determined the weight, measure, or […]
12713. (a) A weighmaster is responsible for ensuring that the weighmaster certificates issued by him or her, or a deputy acting for him or her, are complete and contain all the information required by Sections 12714, 12714.5, and 12715 that is applicable to each transaction. (b) It is unlawful to issue, or cause to be issued, a […]
12714. (a) There shall appear in an appropriate and conspicuous place on each certificate, and all copies thereof, the following legend: WEIGHMASTER CERTIFICATE THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the following described commodity was weighed, measured, or counted by a weighmaster, whose signature is on this certificate, who is a recognized authority of accuracy, as prescribed by […]
12714.5. All information contained on the certificate shall be clear and legible. Each certificate shall be numbered consecutively. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 646, Sec. 4.)
12715. Each certificate shall provide for the following information as applicable to the transaction: (a) The date on which the weight, measure, or count was determined. (b) The street address or location description and the city or township where the weighing, measuring, or counting occurred. (c) The complete signature of the weighmaster who determined each weight, measure, or […]
