Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-11-11
WEST VIRGINIA WEIGHTS
AND MEASURES

Sec. go of House Bill No. 1856.
The Commissioner of Weights
and Measures, his assistant, dep
uty and inspectors, and the
County Sealersand deputy Seal
ers of Weights and Measures, are
hereby made special policemen
and are authorized and empow-
cred to arrest, without formal
warrant any violator of the
Statutes in relation to weights
and measures, and to seize for
use as evidence without formal
warrant, any false or unsealed
weight, measure or weighing
and measuring deviceor package
or amount of commodity found
to be used, retained or offered
or exposed for sale or sold invio-
lation of law.
Sec. 81. Any person who
shall hinder or obstruct in any
way the Commissioner of
Weights and Measures, his depu-
[ty, or Inpectors, or any
County or City Sealer or
deputy Sealer of weights
and measures in the perform
ance of his official duty shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and,
upon conviction thereof in any
Court of CompetentJurisdiction,
shall be punished by fine of not
less than two hundred dollars,
or by Imprisonment in the coun-
ty jail for not less than three
months or by both such fine and
Imprisonment.
Sec. SO. Any person who, by
himself or by his servant or
agent, or as the servant or agent
of another person shall offer or
expose for sale, sell, use in the
buying or selling of any commod-
ity or thing or for hire oraward,
or retain in his possession a false
weight or measure or weighing
or measuring device which has
not been sealed by a sealer or
deputy sealer of weights and
measures within one year, or
shall dispose of any measure, or
weighing or measuring device
contrary to law, or remove any
tag placed thereon by a sealer or
deputy sealerof weightsandmea-
sures; or who shall sell or offer
or expose for sale less than the
quantity he represents, or shall
take or attempt to take more
than the quantity he represents,
when as the buyer, he furnishes
the weights, measures, or weigh
ing device by means of which
the amount Of commodity is de-
termined; or who shall keep for
the purpose Of sale, or expose
for sale, or sell any commodity
in manner contrary to law; or
who shall violate any provisions
of this act for which a specific
penalty has not been provided;
or who shall sell or offer for sale,
or use or have in his possession
for the use ofselling using any
device or instrument to be used
to or calculated to falsify any
weights or measures; shall be
guilty of misdemeanor, and shall
be punished by a fine of not less
than twenty or more than two
hundred dollars, or by imprison-
ment, for not more than three
months, or by both such fine and
imprisonment, upon first con-
viction in any court of competent
jurisdiction, and upon second
or subsequent conviction in any
court of competent jurisdiction
he shall be punished by a fine
of not less than fifty, or more
than five hundred dollars, or by
Imprisonment in the county jail
for more than one year, or by
both such fine and imprison-
ment.
Sec. SO. The word person as
used in this act, shall be con-
strued to impart the plural and
singular, as the case demands,
and shall include corporations,
companies societies and associa-
tions. The word weights, mea-
sures or weighing or measuring
devices" as used in this act, shall
be construed to include all
weights, scales, beams, measures
Of every kind, instrument and
mechanical devices for weighing
or measuring, and any appli-
ances and accessories connected
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