The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-21
ICE ORDINANCE is
NOW IN FULL FORCE
Law Demanding Sale by Exact
Weight Effective Yes
tcrday.
PREVENTS GUESS WEIGHTS
Purchasers Given Right by Coun-
Gil to Enforce Weighing
on Delivery.
PREVENTS GUESS WEIGHTS

The new ice ordinance. requiring Ice
10 he sold according TO its exact weight
At time OF sale. became effective yes
terday. Henceforth 1T will he unlaw-
!ul FOR any person who sells the pro-
duct at stipulated price per pound
hundred pounds to deliver an or
der without Weighing it at the time
The delivery is made. The ordinance
IS expected TO do away with tho Gus
tom Of selling ice by guess weights.
Nominally. the ordinance was in force
from its passage on September IL. but
It's terms actually did not become op-
erative until yesterday. According to
the charter. the ordinance was pub
lished by City Clerk Ben T. August
for 1--WE consecutive days. beginning last
Monday afternoon. Friday was the
fifth day. and yesterday morning the
ordinance became law. Violation car
Ties n penalty OF from So 10 $50 hne
for each ofIense.
The ordinance grew out OF the GUS
tom on the part CT dealers of selling
Ace without taking into account the
loss OF weight by melting A block
weighing loo pounds at the factory
was hauled about the streets In mid
summer weather and sold hours later
IS 90 pounds BY this ordinance, the
purchaser has the right to demand
actual weight by scales.
Text OF Ordinance.
The text of the ordinance follows:
!. 1t shall be unlawful for any deal
er IN Ice in tho city OF Richmond to
charge, collect or receive or attempt
10 charge, collect or receive from any
person 10 whom ice has been sold or
delevired by him for any greater num-
her of pounds of such leo rs shall
have been actually delivered to any
such customer.
2. 1t shall be unlawful for any such
dealer in ice, who sells ice by weight
at a stipulated price per pound or
hundredw eight. to deliver any ice to
any customer in the city OF Richmond
without causing the same to be correct
~ weighed at the time OF such delivery
by the agent or cmploye delivering the
same, and all agents and employees
OF any such dealer so engaged In de-
liver!ng ice shall be provided with
suitable scales by such dealer to en-
able his agents and employees to cor
rectly weigh each piece of ice so de-
livered at the time of such delivery,
and it shall be unlawful for any such
agent or employee to report or make a
charge for any quantity of ice as de-
livered in excess OF the quantity nctu-
ally delivered, according to the correct
weight thereof.
3. II shall be unlawful for any per
son delivering ice in the city OF Rich
mond. which has been sold by weight,
TO refuse. upon demand. 10 allow the
customer q!:a TO whom s2id Ice is being
delivered, tn witness the eighth :, '-ot
the same ut the time or such delivery
or 10 refuse upon demand therefor, &c
furnish 10 any such Gust ncr writ
ten statement of the actual number OF
pounds OF ice delivered to such Gus
toner at the time OF any such delivery
& Any person violating any provision
Of this ordinance shall be liable TO a
fine OF not less than So nor more than
$50 for each offense, recoverable be-
fore the Police Justice
;. This ordinance shall be in force
from It's passage