Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-08
LEGAL.
LEGAL.
tPublished Ia the Tulsa Daily World, sepism-
ber o, and sth. 1917. World Publish
ing Company. Publisher)
ORDINANCE No I7G5.

inspector ni Nelkulh anu MtaNulth IN
the City OF Tulsa, Oklahoma, defining his
duties, fixing his salary, providing GER
tain regulations for the prevention Of
fraud In weights and measures, fixing
penalties for the VIC alton OF the pro-
visions OF this ordinance, and declaring
emergency.
BE IT ORDAINED BY TIE BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
TULSA. OKLAHOMA:
SECTION l. That the office Of Inspector
OF Weights and Measures is hereby created
and established. Such office shall be filled
by appointment by the Mayor and Board Of
Comm, ssioners as other appointive offices are
filled under the provisions Of the Charter
OF faid City. Provided. that the term OF Of
flee Of the person first appointed hereunder
shall expire on the fourth Tuesday In April,
1915, or as soon as his successor shall have
been appointed and qualified. Appointments
shall bo made annually thereafter or when,
by reason OF vacancy, necessity demands.
Such officer shall be under the superior
control OF the Mayor and Board of Commits
sioncrs. lie shall be subject to removal at
any time for failure to faithfully perform his
duties, or any malfeassnce in office, conduct
unbecoming officer. drunk enness for
any other good and sufficient reason found TO
sionerS. after due notice is given such officer
that u hearing will be had at certain time
officer TO appear and show cause why he
should not be dismissed from office
Such officer shall receive the same sal
ary fixed by the Mayor and Board OF Com
missioners as compensation for patrolmen Of
said city He shall devote at least eight
hours Of each working day to his duties or
to such duties as may be assigned him by
the Mayor and Board OF Commissioners.
lie shah have and possess the authority TO
execute legal process, make arrests and
perform any service or duty that may be-
pos ssessed under the laws of the land by
any police office Of the City OF Tulsa and
Nhsll be charged especially with the en-
foreement OF the provisions on this ordi'
nance.
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any person, firm corporation to have In
their possession any goods, wxres, mer-
chandise, commodity or personal property
OF any kind which such person, firm or
corporation is offering for sale or Is selling
or attempting to sch, either in wholesale
retail lots, and measured with or cal
culated by any mechanical Device usually
called weighing scales, or measure, unless
ly weighs or measures the commodity or
property which such person, firm or cor
poration Is selling or Offering for sale.
mechanical devices Of whatever kind or
character used by any person for weigh.
ing. measuring or estimating the quantities
OF any commodity or personal property shall
be Of the standard fixed by the laws OF the
land, and tho use by any person of any
scales measure or device which cheats or
defrauds any other person buying com.
modify from the former In said city, shall
constitute a misdemeanor under the provi-
SECTION 4 WEIGHTS OF LEGAL
BUsHELs-ToN. Whenever the articles
hereinafter named shall be sold by the
bushel. and no agreement as to weights or
measures thereof shall be made by the
parties the bushel shall consist Of the fol-
lowing number OF pounds, viz: Salt, lime
and mineral coal, eighty; corn in shuck,
seventy-two; unsheled corn, seventyj
wheat, beans, peas and split peas, beets,
lrish potatoes, clover seed, including alfalfa
and alsike tor swedish, sixty; onions,
ad
green peas, tunshened), and kaYiir
corn, hfty'six; sweet potatoes, fifty-five;
buckwheat, fifty.two; carrots, rutabagas,
corn meal, miilei, sorghum seed and
pears, cucumbers, Hungarian grass seed,
and broom corn seed, forty-eight; castor
beans, forty.sis; tomatoes, and timothy
seed, forty-fiye: parsnips and hemp seed,
forty'four common turnipi forty-two; Ber'l
| muda grass seed, forty; malt, thirty eight;
Usage orange seed, thirty six; dried peaches,
thirty-thre oats and cotton seed, thirty,
two; top onion sets, twenty-eight; dried
bran. twenty; the seed OF blue grass, red
top and orchard grass, fourteen: coke and
cubic inches per bushel A ton shah con
sst Of two thousand pounds OF the article
or commodity named
A ton of hay shall consist OF two thou
hundred and forty three cubic feet, after the
same shall have been stacked thirty days,
or such time as may be agreed upon between
the parties.
A perch OF mason work, or stone. 10
hereby declared to consist OF twenty-five
feet cubic measure.
SECTION 5, STANDARD WEIGHTS OF
after mentioned shall have tho following
standard weights Barrel OF flour. in wood,
one hundred and ninety'six pounds net;
half barrels, In wood, ninety.eight pounds
net one.fourth barrels, In sack, fofty.eitht
pounds gross Corn meal, In sacks. thirty.
five pounds gross; half sacks, seventeen and
one'half pounds gross; one-fourth sacks,
eight and three fourth pounds gross. And
all feed made from cereals Of any kind,
whether pure mixed or sdulterated one
hundred pounds per sack gross; ,,,,
sraHpF6 sEG5E3N oS TA,MNE AGA ANp , WEIGHT EIGHT
name and true weight of the contents Of
| each and every barrel, box, sack bale, cask
or package Of any of the foregoing products.
whether sold in single packages or lots.
| shall be plainly marked branded or stem
clled in letters and figures, not less than
| two inches in length and not less than one
eighth of an inch in width, upon the exier-
ior of such barrel, box, sack, bale, cask or
package, in a conspicuous place as the head
| In case Of barrel, and the front or branded
| side in case of sacks bales or packages,
| and II shall be unlawful for any person.
firm corporation, or the agent, employee
or representative of any firm or corpora.
tion to sell or exchange any such product
| SO packed or contained until the provisions
hereof have been complied with.
SECTION 7. The Inspector OF Weights
and Measures shall have the privilege Of
| sering any mill product and commodity
sold in the City Of Tulsa in violation or
| contravention OF the provisions OF this
| dinance, and may cause the arrest OF any
person selling or offering the same for sale
in violation Of the provisions hereof, and
may use in evidence any commodity SO
| seized, and in case the same is lost de-
| stroyed or deteriOrates for any cause the
| City the officer making the seizure shall
| not In any case be held responsible for the
value thereof, provided sseh officer acts in
! good faith.
| SECTION 8. Any manufacturer, dealer
or other person who shall impede, obstruct,
hinder or otherwise prevent, or assist in
| preventing the Inspector OF Weights and
Measures, or any person assisting him, in
the performance OF the duties herein speci.
fled or while carrying into effect any OF the
provisions OF this ordinance, shall be deem.
| ed guilty OF msdemeanor.
| SECTION o. Any person, firm or cor.
| poration, as manufacturer, dealer, merchant
or individual, selling or offering for sale
any commodity herein mentioned by weight
or measure, and who knowingly violates any
OF the provisions OF this ordinance shall be
deemed guilty Of misdemeanor and SHALL
upon conviction thereof. be fined In any
sum not exceeding ono hundred dollars and
each violation shall be deemed separate
| offense.
| SECTION 10 That an emergency exists
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