Section 8-16-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) REGISTERED SERVICE AGENT. Any individual, agency, firm, company, or corporation that for hire, commission, or other payment of any kind, services, repairs, or reconditions any weighing or measuring devices, and that […]
Section 8-16-10 Seizure for evidence of incorrect, false, or unsealed weight, measure, device, package, or commodity. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or any local sealer of weights and measures is authorized and empowered to seize for use as evidence, without formal warrant, any incorrect, false, or unsealed weight, measure, weighing, or measuring device, package, […]
Section 8-16-11 Powers of sheriff conferred upon commissioner and sealers; exhibition of badges; power of arrest. There is conferred upon the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries and local sealers of weights and measures the same powers in their respective jurisdictions as are possessed by sheriffs of this state for the purpose of carrying out the […]
Section 8-16-12 Possession of altered, etc., weight, measure or device prima facie evidence of guilt. In all prosecutions for the violation of any laws relating to weights and measures, the possession of a weight, measure or weighing or measuring device which has been altered, changed or in any manner tampered with so that the same […]
Section 8-16-13 Existence of weights, measures or devices in place of sale, etc., presumptive proof of use and ownership. For the purposes of this article, proof of the existence of weights, measures or weighing or measuring devices in or about any building, enclosure, stand or vehicle in or from which it is shown buying or […]
Section 8-16-15 Rules and regulations; fees. (a) The Board of Agriculture and Industries shall have the right and power to adopt and promulgate all reasonable and necessary rules and regulations for the better enforcement of the provisions of law relative to weights and measures and the sale of commodities, things, or service by weight or […]
Section 8-16-16 Standards for containers of farm products – Duty to establish. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries to fix and promulgate official standards for containers of farm products and to change any of them from time to time as may be found necessary. (Ag. Code 1927, §260; […]
Section 8-16-17 Standards for containers of farm products – Adoption of federal standards. The State Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized to fix and promulgate as the official standards for this state, for any container for any agricultural product, the standard for such product which may have been promulgated or announced therefor under the […]
Section 8-16-18 Penalties for violation of chapter. (a) Any person violating any provision of this chapter or the rules and regulations issued hereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, unless otherwise provided in this chapter, shall be fined not more than $500 and may also be sentenced to hard labor for not […]
Section 8-16-2 Standard measure of length, surface, weight, and capacity. There is but one unit or standard measure of length and surface, one of weight, one of capacity for liquid substances, and one of capacity for dry substances throughout this state, which must be in conformity with the standard measure of length, surface, weight, and […]
Section 8-16-3 Standards approved by Congress to be state standards. The standards of weights and measures received from the United States under a resolution of Congress approved June 14, 1836, and such new weights and measures as shall be received from the United States as standard weights and measures in addition thereto or in renewal […]
Section 8-16-4 Contracts construed according to standards ascertained by Congress. All contracts made within this state for any work to be done or for anything to be sold or delivered must be construed to have been according to the standard of weight and measure ascertained by Congress, unless the parties stipulate to the contrary. (Ag. […]
Section 8-16-6 Duties generally of commissioner respecting weights and measures. With respect to weights and measures, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall have the following duties: (1) To try and prove by the state standards, at least once in five years, all weights, measures, and other apparatus which may belong to any county or […]
Section 8-16-7 Powers of commissioner and local sealers in supervising weights and measures. (a) When not otherwise provided by law, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries within the state, the county sealer within the county and the city sealer within the city shall have the power and it shall be their duty to inspect, test, […]
Section 8-16-8 Weights or measures corresponding with standards to be sealed or marked. Whenever the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or a local sealer of weights and measures compares weights, measures or weighing or measuring devices and finds that they correspond, or causes them to correspond, with the standards in his possession, he shall seal […]
Section 8-16-9 Condemnation, repair, etc., of nonstandard weights and measures. (a) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or a local sealer of weights and measures shall condemn, seize, and may destroy weights, measures, or weighing or measuring devices which are false, fraudulent, or cannot be made to conform to the legal standards. They shall condemn […]
