§ 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.)

§ 81A-51 – Definitions.

81A-51. Definitions. For purposes of this Article, the following words, terms and phrases are defined as follows: (1) "Board" means North Carolina Board of Agriculture. (2) "Commissioner" means the North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture or his designated agent. (3) "Department" means the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. (4) "Product" means any product, […]

§ 81A-52 – License.

81A-52. License. All public weighmasters shall be licensed. Any person not less than 18 years of age who wishes to be a public weighmaster shall apply to the Department on a form provided by the Department. A person operating as a public weighmaster outside of this State shall include with the person’s application for licensure […]

§ 81A-53 – Certificates of weight.

81A-53. Certificates of weight. All public weighmasters shall issue certificates of weight, measure, count, reading or recording on forms approved by the Commissioner and shall enforce the provisions of this Chapter and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder without compensation from the State. Each certificate issued shall indicate the date on which a product is […]

§ 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 […]