The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-21
ORDINANCE NO. Il6.
COMMISSION SERIES


AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISH
ING STANDARDS OF WEIGHTS
AND MEASURES; PROVIDING
FOR THE TESTING AND IN
SPEcTION OF WEIGHTS, MEAS
URES OR ANY MECHANICAL
DEVICE USED FOR WEIGHING
IOR MEASURING ANY ARTICLE
OR COMMODITY INTENDED
ITO BE PURCHASED OR SOLD,
| OR OFFERED OR EXPOSED
FOR SALE; PROHIBITING THE
! USE OF WEIGHTS, MEASURES
SCALES, BEAMS, STEELYARDS
BALANCES OR OTHER INSTRU-
MENTS OR MACHINERY FOR
WEIGHING ARTICLES OR COM
| MODITIES UNLESS SAME
SHALL HAVE BEEN TESTED
AND SEALED OR MARKED BY
THE INSPECTOR OF WEIGHTS
AND MEASURES AND PRO-
VIDING FOR THEIR CONFIS-
CATION WHEN SUCH WEIGHTS
AND MEASURES AND ME-
CHANICAL DEVICES DO NOT
CONFORM TO THE STANDARD;
PROVIDING PROCEDURE IN
CONNECTION WITH THE ADJ
MINISTRATIONAND ENFORCE
MENT OF ESTABLISHED STAN
DARDS OF WEIGHTS AND
MEASURES; PROVIDING PEN
ALTIES FOR IT'S VIOLATION:
REPEATING ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT TO THE EXTENT OF
SUCH CONFLICT; CONTAINING
! A SAVING CLAUSE; AND PRO-
/ VID1NG WHEN ORDINANCE
GOES INTO EFFECT.
Be il enacted by the City Com
mission of The City of Key West,
Florida:
Section |. II shall be unlawful
for any person to use any weight
i or measure in the sale of any ar
ticle or commodity, except such
weights and measures as are here
in provided.
Section 2. 1t shall be unlawful
I for any person to use any weights
! or measures yielding less weight,
length or cubic content than those
, fixed by Florida Statutes, 1941,
Chapter 531.
Section 3. 1t shall be unlaw-
full for any person to use any
/ weight, measure or any mechan-
, ical device for the ascertainment
! of the weight or measure of a
commodity or goods unless such
weight, measure or mechanical
device shall have first been tested
4, by the inspector of weights and
measures and shall have thereon
the official city seal of weights
and measures of The City of Key
West, Florida, certifying the cor
lrectneSS of such weight, measure
or device.
Section f. It shall be the duty
of said inspector of weights and
, measures TO test all weights, meas
lures, scales, beams, steelyardS
and other machinery used for
weighing or measuring within
The City of Key West, Florida, at
least once in every six months;
and upon being notified in writ
ing by any person that any weight,
scale, beam, steelyard or other
machinery for weighing or meas
uring any article intended to be
purchased or sold or offered or
exposed for sale in said city, is
Inaccurate or believed to be so, or
not according to the standard, he
will at once make an eXamina-
ton Of the same, and after he shall
have found such weights and
measures to be correct and ac-
cording to the standard prescrib-
ed by law, he shall seal or mark
the same with stamp or by past
ing d card thereon, as he may
deem most proper, as supplied to
him by the city.
Section 5. If such inspector of
weights and measures shall find,
upon examination of any weights
or measures used by any person
within the city that the same do
not conform TO the standard pre-
scribed by law, and cannot be
made to so conform, he shall have
the authority to confiscate such
weights and measures and de-
StrOY the same. !
Section 6. 1t shall be the duty
of every person when called upon
TO exhibit to such inspector any :
weights, measures. scales. beams, '
steelyards or other machinery
used by them, or intended to be
used for weighing or measuring
any article or commodity. and to
permit said inspector to examine,
test and mark or seal the same.
SeCtion 7. The testing required
of said weights, measures, scales,
beams, SteelyardS and other ma
chinery, may be made by the in
spector of weights and measures
at the store or other place where
the same are used and, upon de-
mand therefor, the owner or user
thereof shall exhibit the same to
the inspector for the purpose of
having such test made at his Of
flee.
Section 8. No person shall use
or permit to be used by any per-
son in his employ, any weights,
scales, beams, steel
yards, balances or other inStru-
ments or machinery for weighing
or commodities, unless
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