§ 81A-78 – Scale location.
81A-78. Scale location. It shall be unlawful for any scale or weighing device to be installed, set up, put into service, or used on a foundation or support that aids in giving false indication of weight values applied to platter, platform, or other load receiving element. (1947, c. 380; 1975, c. 544.)
§ 81A-79 – Exemption.
81A-79. Exemption. The provisions of this Article shall not prohibit the user of a scale or weighing device from employing some person other than a scale technician to render service as defined by this Article upon his or her scale or weighing device, nor apply to the person so employed, who does not solicit such […]
§ 81A-80 – Suspension or revocation of registration; penalty.
81A-80. Suspension or revocation of registration; penalty. (a) The Commissioner may suspend or revoke the registration of any scale technician who violates any provisions of this Article or regulations adopted thereunder or who shall fail to issue a service certificate or who shall issue a service certificate bearing false statements regarding service rendered. (b) Any […]
§ 81A-54 – Official seal of the public weighmaster.
81A-54. Official seal of the public weighmaster. It shall be the duty of every public weighmaster to obtain from the Department an official seal for the sum of six dollars ($6.00), inscribed with the following words: "North Carolina Public Weighmaster" and any other design or legend the Commissioner considers necessary. The seal shall be stamped […]
§ 81A-55 – Violations by public weighmasters; by others; penalties.
81A-55. Violations by public weighmasters; by others; penalties. (a) Any public weighmaster who refuses to issue a certificate as prescribed by this Article, or who issues a certificate giving a false weight, or who misrepresents the weight to any person, or who otherwise violates any provisions of this Article or the rules and regulations pursuant […]
§ 81A-58 – Duty of custodian of product.
81A-58. Duty of custodian of product. If any product is to be offered for sale, or is sold, and is weighed or measured or counted by any public weighmaster and a certificate is issued prior to sale or acceptance of the product by the purchaser, or if any product is offered for sale, sold or […]
§ 81A-59 – Weighing tobacco.
81A-59. Weighing tobacco. All leaf tobacco offered for sale in a leaf tobacco warehouse in North Carolina shall remain in the custody of the warehouse operator from and after the time it is weighed by the public weighmaster until it is sold or the bid is rejected by the owner. (1945, c. 1067; 1975, c. […]
§ 81A-61 – Approval of devices used.
81A-61. Approval of devices used. When making a weight determination, a public weighmaster shall use a weighing device that is of a type suitable for the weighing of the product to be weighed and that has been tested and approved for use by the Commissioner or by the public weighmaster’s local or state weights and […]
§ 81A-42 – Standard weights and measures.
81A-42. Standard weights and measures. Whenever any commodity named in this section shall be quoted or sold by the bushel, the bushel shall be the number of pounds stated in this section and whenever quoted or sold in subdivisions of the bushel, the number of pounds shall be the fractional part of the number of […]
§ 81A-50.1 – Purpose.
81A-50.1. Purpose. This Article licenses and regulates public weighmasters in order to ensure accurate quantities of products upon sale to purchasers. (1981, c. 607, s. 3.)