§ 47-2-1. Custody and maintenance of standards — Stamps and branding irons. Every town or city sealer shall, at the expense of his or her town or city, provide therein a suitable place for the safekeeping and preservation of the weights, measures, and balances furnished by the state, which shall be used only as standards, […]
§ 47-2-10. Produce scales in markets. Every retail food business which has a produce department and provides a scale for customers to weigh their purchases shall provide a written notice adjacent to the scale which notifies the customers that the weight registered on the scale is approximate and the scales are not certified by the […]
§ 47-2-2. Penalty for improper care of standards. Every town or city sealer who neglects to provide a suitable place for keeping the weights, measures, and balances, or suffers any of them through his or her neglect to be lost, damaged, or destroyed, shall be fined the sum of not less than twenty dollars ($20.00) […]
§ 47-2-3. Periodical testing of municipal sealers’ weights and measures by state — Fee. (a) Every town and city sealer shall, at least once in every two (2) year period, have the field weights, measures, and balances in his or her custody: tolerance tested for class F use, in accordance with current year national institute […]
§ 47-2-4. Annual adjustment of mercantile weights and measures brought to sealer. Every town or city sealer shall annually, at the expense of his or her town or city, advertise or post up notifications in public places in different parts of his or her town or city, for every person engaged in the trade of […]
§ 47-2-5. Adjustment of weights and measures not brought in. After the expiration of the time limited in the notification which is required to be given in § 47-2-4, the sealer of weights and measures in every town or city shall visit the places of business, and enter upon the carts, wagons, and other vehicles […]
§ 47-2-6. Penalties for neglect of duty. For every neglect of duty prescribed in § 47-2-5 the town or city sealer shall be fined a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100); and every town or city sealer who shall seal any weight measure or balance otherwise than according to the town or city standard, […]
§ 47-2-7. Fees and compensation of sealer — Condemnation of incorrect scales or balances. (a) The sealer of weights and measures, in any town or city, shall receive the same fee as any state sealer appointed by the state and no less than a fee of twenty-five cents (25¢) for every weight, wine, or dry […]
§ 47-2-8. Deputy sealers. The different town councils of the several towns, and the city councils of cities, may appoint, upon recommendation of their respective town or city sealers, one or more persons as deputy sealers of their town or city, who shall assist the town or city sealer and, in the absence from duty […]
§ 47-2-9. Inspection fees. The sealer of weights and measures, or his or her deputy, shall assess a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) semiannually in lieu of any cartage fee for the purpose of inspecting more than two (2) devices in accordance with their duties enumerated in chapters 2 — 12 of this title. History […]
