Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-21

I or solG 0y weights or measure. oil
which is commonly SO sold, at AMI
time before the actual delivery of
such package or amount Of commodE
y to the buyer
(c) To enter without formal war
rant for the purposes herein specified
and in the general performances Of
his official duties, any stand, place.
building, or premises or to stop any
wagon or conveyance, in or upon
which any measure or measures or
weighed or measured packages or
amounts OF commodity are kept on
maintained or carried, or where he
may suspect these to be kept, main
tanned or carried, for the purpose of
Testing, inspecting, correcting, and
sealing or condemning such measure
or measures, or re-weighing or re-
measuring such packages or amounts
of commodity, either upon his own
initiative or at the request of the
city, or upon the filing by any person
of written request in the office OF
the sealer of weights and measures.
Sec. 6. The sealer of weights
and measures shall inspect, test, try,
and may correct, if need be, any
measure or measures either in the
place of business where the same are
used or at his office or other place
as in his best Judgment he deems
most advisable.
(a) Once annually and oftener if
in his judgment. such inspection is
warranted.
(b) Whenever any measure or
measures are installed, renewed or
altered in any specified stand, store,
conveyance or establishment;
| (c) Whenever any written request
to examine any particular measure
or measures is filed in his office
Provided, that nothing in this sec
ton shall be deemed to render
necessary the testing or sealing of a
milk bottle or other glass container
more than once.
Sec T. 1t shall be the duty of the
sealer of weights and measures to
have and to keep a general super
vision over all sales of commodities
of whatsoever kind and character
in the city;
To re-Weigh'or re-measure packages
in accordance with section (b),
whenever he may have reason to sus-
pect the preparation of fraud in
transactions;
And to so enforce the laws of the
state and the ordinances of the said
city that fraud may be eliminated, in
so far as this is possible.
Sec. g. 1t shall be the duty of
the sealer of weights and measures,
upon his first inspection, to deliver
and leave with any person for whom
he inspects any measure or measures
a printed copy of this ordinance
Sec. g. All measures that are
tested by the sealer of weights and
measures and found to conform to the
legal standards shall be marked with
the letters &c. r., and the last two
figures of the year, or in such manner
as the State superintendent of
Weights and Measures may direct.
The sealer shall, in addition, give to
each person, firm, corporation, socie-
ty or organization for whom any mea
ures have been tested, a certificate,
properly dated, showing in detail
for what the same is given and
the results of his test, and dupIi-
cate thereof shall be retained by
the sealer and kept on file in his
office. No fee shall be collected for
inspecting or sealing measures.
If a sealer of weights and measures
shall affix the said mark &c. R."
1 upon any measure or measures, with
out first making an actual trial and
proof of the same, for such measure
so marked, he shall, upon conviction
thereof, be punished by fine of one
Hundred ($10O) Dollars and be i'm
mediately removed from his office.
Sec. 10. The sealer of weights
!
and measures shall keep a record of
all the measures inspected by him, in
which records shall be stated the
names of the owners of the same and
whether the same, on inspection, were
found to be correct or incorrect, and
if found correct that the same were
properly tested and sealed by him;
and if found incorrect the disposition
made thereof Such record shall be
kept in his office and at the close of
each and every fiscal year he shall
file a copy thereof sworn to before a
notary public, in the office of the city
clerk
Sec II. The sealer of weights
and measures shall submit to the
common council every third month,
written report showing the number
and kind of measure or measures in
| spected, tested, and sealed and the
names of the owners thereof, and the
number and kind Of measure or meas
| ures condemned and the names OF
the owners thereof; the names of the
| persons arrested under this act; the
property seized and the fines imposed.
The report shall also include an in
ventory of all the standards in the
possession of the sealer and an
itemized statement of the expenditure
| of his office. The sealer of weights
and measures shall make an annual