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3 PA Cons Stat § 4131 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4131 - Advertising packages for sale

 § 4131. Advertising packages for sale. (a) Quantity of contents.--Whenever a commodity in package form is advertised in any manner and the retail price of the package is stated in the advertisement, there shall be closely and conspicuously associated with such statement of price a declaration of the basic quantity of contents of the package as is required by law or regulation to appear on the package.  (b) Exaggerations prohibited.--In connection with the declaration required under this section, there shall be declared neither the qualifying term "when packed" nor any other words of similar import nor any term qualifying a unit of weight, measure or count (for example, "jumbo," "giant," "full" and the like) that tends to exaggerate the amount of commodity in the package.  (c) Dual declaration.--Where the law or regulation requires a dual declaration of net quantity to appear on the package, only the smaller of the two units of weight or measure need appear in the advertisement.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4132 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4132 - Sale by net weight

§ 4132. Sale by net weight. The word "weight" as used in this subchapter in connection with any commodity shall mean net weight. Whenever any commodity is sold on the basis of weight, the net weight of the commodity shall be employed, and all contracts concerning commodities shall be so construed.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4133 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4133 - Misrepresentation of price

 § 4133. Misrepresentation of price. (a) Pricing.--Whenever any commodity or service is sold or is offered, exposed or advertised for sale by weight, measure or count, the price shall not be misrepresented nor shall the price be represented in any manner calculated or tending to mislead or deceive an actual or prospective purchaser.  (b) Unit of weight.--Whenever an advertised, posted or labeled price per unit of weight, measure or count includes a fraction of a cent, all elements of the fraction shall be prominently displayed, and the numeral or numerals expressing the fraction shall be immediately adjacent to, of the same general design and style as and at least one-half the height and width of the numerals representing the whole cents.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4134 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4134 - Meat, poultry and seafood

§ 4134. Meat, poultry and seafood. Except for immediate consumption on the premises where sold or as one of several elements comprising a ready-to-eat meal sold as a unit for consumption elsewhere than on the premises where sold, all meat, meat products, poultry (whole or parts) and all seafood, except shellfish offered or exposed for sale or sold as food, shall be offered or exposed for sale and sold by weight. The following may be sold by weight, measure or count:  (1) Items sold for consumption on the premises. (2) Items sold as one of three or more different elements, excluding condiments, comprising a ready-to-eat meal sold as a unit for consumption elsewhere than on the premises where sold.  (3) Ready-to-eat chickens and chicken parts cooked on the premises but not packaged in advance of sale.  (4) Sandwiches when offered or exposed for sale on the premises where packed or produced and not intended for resale.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4135 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4135 - Butter, oleomargarine and margarine

§ 4135. Butter, oleomargarine and margarine. Butter, oleomargarine and margarine shall be offered and exposed for sale and sold by weight and only in units of one-quarter pound, one-half pound or one pound. Butter may be sold in multiples of one pound. Tub butter packaged on the premises where sold and in advance of sale may be sold in random weights.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4136 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4136 - Fluid dairy products

 § 4136. Fluid dairy products. (a) Quantities.--All fluid dairy products, including, but not limited to, whole milk, skimmed milk, cultured milk, sweet cream, sour cream and buttermilk, shall be packaged for retail sale only in units of one gill, one-half liquid pint, ten fluid ounces, 12 fluid ounces, one liquid pint, one-third liquid quart, one liquid quart or multiples of one liquid quart, one-half gallon, one gallon or multiples of one gallon.  (b) Small packages.--Packages in units of less than one gill shall be permitted.  (c) Metric.--Metric equivalent packages of fluid dairy products shall only be units of 125 milliliters, 250 milliliters, 500 milliliters, 1 liter or multiples of 1 liter.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4137 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4137 - Flour, cornmeal and hominy grits

 § 4137. Flour, cornmeal and hominy grits. (a) Increments of weight.--When in package form and when packed, kept, offered or exposed for sale or sold, wheat flour, whole wheat flour, graham flour, self-rising wheat flour, phosphated wheat flour, bromated flour, enriched flour, enriched self-rising flour, enriched bromated flour, corn flour, cornmeal and hominy grits shall be packaged only in units of 3, 5, 10, 25, 50 or 100 pounds of avoirdupois weight.  (b) Small packages.--Packages in units of less than three pounds or more than 100 pounds shall be permitted.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4138 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4138 - Potatoes

§ 4138. Potatoes. (a) Increments of weight.--All potatoes packed for sale, offered or exposed for sale in this Commonwealth shall be packaged in containers of net weights of any increment.  (b) Exceptions.--The provisions of this section shall not apply to:  (1) potatoes offered to the consumer at retail from bulk stock; (2) the sale of potatoes to processors or for export; (3) the sale of peeled, cut or sliced potatoes, or frozen or dehydrated potatoes, or precooked dehydrated or dried potatoes;  (4) the sale of seed potatoes; or (5) the sale of sweet potatoes or yams. (Dec. 18, 2013, P.L.1241, No.124, eff. 60 days)   2013 Amendment. Act 124 amended subsec. (a).
3 PA Cons Stat § 4139 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4139 - Construction of contracts

§ 4139. Construction of contracts. Fractional parts of any unit of weight or measure shall mean like fractional parts of the value of such unit as prescribed or defined in sections 4102 (relating to definitions) and 4105 (relating to systems of weights and measures), and all contracts concerning the sale of commodities and services shall be construed in accordance with this requirement.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4140 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4140 - Hindering or obstructing officer; penalties

§ 4140. Hindering or obstructing officer; penalties. Any person who shall hinder or obstruct in any way the department, the director or any one of the inspectors or a sealer or deputy sealer in the performance of his official duties shall, upon conviction, be subject to criminal penalties in accordance with section 4191(a) (relating to offenses and penalties).
3 PA Cons Stat § 4141 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4141 - Impersonation of officer; penalties

§ 4141. Impersonation of officer; penalties. Any person who shall impersonate in any way the department, the director or any one of the inspectors or a sealer or deputy sealer by the use of his seal or a counterfeit of his seal or in any other manner commits a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be subject to criminal penalties in accordance with section 4191(a) (relating to offenses and penalties).
3 PA Cons Stat § 4143 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4143 - Presumptive evidence

§ 4143. Presumptive evidence. For the purposes of this subchapter, proof of the existence of a weight or measure or a weighing or measuring device in or about any building, enclosure, stand or vehicle in which or from which it is shown that buying or selling is commonly carried on shall be presumptive proof of the regular use of such weight or measure or weighing or measuring device for commercial purposes and of such use by the person in charge of such building, enclosure, stand or vehicle.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4150 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4150 - Enforcement and regulations

§ 4150. Enforcement and regulations. (a) General rule.--The director is authorized and directed to enforce the provisions of this subchapter and to adopt, with the approval of the department, such rules and regulations as are deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.  (b) Nonapplication.--The provisions of this chapter shall not be applicable to the weighing of vehicles when conducting an investigation for compliance with the provisions of 75 Pa.C.S. Ch. 49 (relating to size, weight and load). The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to a qualified Commonwealth employee, as defined in 75 Pa.C.S. § 4102 (relating to definitions), engaged in the inspection, weighing or measuring of vehicles as required by 75 Pa.C.S. § 4704 (relating to inspection by police or Commonwealth personnel), 4981 (relating to weighing and measurement of vehicles) or 8302 (relating to powers and duties of department).
3 PA Cons Stat § 4151 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4151 - Licenses

 § 4151. Licenses. (a) Requirement.--Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, no person shall make or issue a weighmaster's certificate unless licensed by the department. Application for a license shall be made upon a form prescribed by the department. The application shall contain the following:  (1) The name and address of the business or businesses for which the public weighmaster will be conducting weighing.  (2) The name and address of the residence of the applicant. (3) The scale locations where weighing will be conducted by the weighmaster. (b) Referral.--The department may refer any application for a license as a weighmaster to any city or county inspector of weights and measures for a report as to the accuracy of the statements made on the application, the suitability of the scale or scales to be used by the applicant and such other information as the department may require.  (c) Fee.--The applicant shall pay to the department a license fee of $60, which shall be remitted to the State Treasurer through the Department of Revenue. The license shall be for a period of two years from the date of issue. A license may be renewed at the discretion of the department for successive periods of not more than two years upon payment to the department of a license fee of $60, which shall be remitted to the State Treasurer through the Department of Revenue.  (d) Display.--Each license or a duplicate thereof shall be kept conspicuously displayed at the place where the weighmaster is engaged in weighing. In the event of the change of any name or address appearing on any application, the licensed weighmaster shall notify the department of the change within 48 hours.  (e) Suspension or revocation.--After a hearing and upon due notice to the licensee, a license may be suspended or revoked by the department for dishonesty, incompetency, inaccuracy or failure to notify the department of any change of name or address stated in the application, and a license may be revoked by the department without hearing if the licensed weighmaster has been found guilty of any violation of the provisions of this subchapter or if the licensed weighmaster has ceased to be employed at the places of weighing for which the license has been issued.  (f) Records.--The department shall keep a record of all applications received and of all licenses issued.  (g) Rules.--The department may adopt rules for determining the qualifications of an applicant for a license as a licensed public weighmaster.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4152 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4152 - Weighmasters' certificates

§ 4152. Weighmasters' certificates. The original weighmaster's certificate shall be typewritten or made out in ink or indelible pencil, and the original and each copy of the certificate shall show all of the following:  (1) The kind and size of the commodity. (2) The name and address of the seller. (3) The name and address of the purchaser. (4) The license number of the vehicle and trailer or other means of permanent identification. (5) The signature and license number of the licensed weighmaster who weighed the commodity and who issued the weighmaster's certificate.  (6) The date and hour when weighed. (7) The gross weight in avoirdupois pounds of the vehicle and the load, the tare weight and net weight of the commodity, and, where the load is divided into lots, the net weight of each lot. All the information under the paragraph must be determined by the same weighmaster in accordance with the rules and regulations of the department.  (8) A sequential serial number.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4153 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4153 - Preparation of weighmaster's certificate

§ 4153. Preparation of weighmaster's certificate. A licensed public weighmaster shall not enter on a weighmaster's certificate issued by the weighmaster any weight values which the weighmaster has not personally determined, and the weighmaster shall make no entries on a weighmaster's certificate issued by another person. A weighmaster's certificate shall be so prepared as to show clearly what weight or weights were actually determined. If the certificate form provides for the entry of gross, tare and net weights in any case in which only the gross, the tare or the net weight is determined by the weighmaster, he shall strike through or otherwise cancel the printed entries for the weights not determined or computed. If gross and tare weights are shown on a weighmaster's certificate and both of these were not determined on the same scale and on the day for which the certificate is dated, the weighmaster shall identify on the certificate the scale used for determining each weight and the date of each determination.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4154 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4154 - Use of approved weighing device required

§ 4154. Use of approved weighing device required. When making a weight determination as provided for by this subchapter, a licensed public weighmaster shall use a weighing device approved by the bureau in accordance with Subchapter D (relating to device type approval) which is of a type suitable for the weighing of the amount and kind of material to be weighed and which has been tested and approved for use by a weights and measures officer of this Commonwealth preceding the date of the weighing.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4155 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4155 - Scale requirement

§ 4155. Scale requirement. A licensed public weighmaster shall not use a scale to weigh a load which exceeds the normal or rated capacity of the scale, nor shall the public weighmaster engage in multiple-draft weighing where the vehicle exceeds the length of the scale.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4156 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4156 - Disposition of copies of certificates

§ 4156. Disposition of copies of certificates. The original copy of a weighmaster's certificate shall be delivered to the purchaser of the commodity specified in the certificate at the time of delivery. One copy of the certificate shall be retained at the place of weighing, and one copy may be retained by the business selling or delivering the commodity. Copies of weighmasters' certificates in possession of licensed weighmasters shall be retained for a period of two years and, during business hours, shall be subject to inspection or subpoena for use as evidence by any State, county or city inspector of weights and measures.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4157 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4157 - License required; definition

§ 4157. License required; definition. (a) License required.--No person shall assume the title "licensed public weighmaster" or any title of similar import, perform the duties or acts to be performed by a licensed public weighmaster under this subchapter, hold himself or herself out as a licensed public weighmaster, issue any weighmaster's certificate, ticket memorandum or statement or engage in the full-time or part-time business of public weighing unless he holds a valid license as a licensed public weighmaster.  (b) Definition.--As used in this section, the term "public weighing" means the weighing of any commodity for any commercial purpose.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4158 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4158 - Suspension or revocation of licenses

 § 4158. Suspension or revocation of licenses. (a) Authorization.--The department is authorized to suspend or revoke the license of any licensed public weighmaster:  (1) when it is satisfied, after a hearing, upon ten days' notice to the licensee, that the licensee has violated any provision of this subchapter or of any valid regulation of the department affecting licensed public weighmasters; or  (2) when a licensed public weighmaster has been convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of violating any provision of this subchapter or any regulation issued under authority of this subchapter.  (b) Petition for hearing de novo.--Any licensee whose license is suspended or revoked may, within 30 days after notice of the suspension or revocation, file a petition in the Commonwealth Court for a hearing de novo to determine whether the action of the department is lawful and reasonable. The court shall hear the petition and may make any appropriate order or decree.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4159 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4159 - Prohibited acts

 § 4159. Prohibited acts. (a) General rule.--It shall be unlawful:  (1) For a weighmaster to issue a false or incorrect weighmaster's certificate. (2) For a person to solicit a weighmaster to issue a false or incorrect weighmaster's certificate.  (3) For a person to use or issue a weighmaster's certificate except one prepared on a form issued or approved by the department.  (4) For a person to print or distribute any forms of weighmaster's certificates unless authorized to do so by the department.  (5) For a person to use a false or incorrect weighmaster's certificate or a weighmaster's certificate not bearing the signature and license number of a licensed weighmaster and the license number of the vehicle and trailer or other means of permanent identification.  (6) For a weighmaster knowingly to permit a weighmaster's certificate to be issued or used which purports to bear the weighmaster's signature and which was not in fact signed by the weighmaster at a time of weighing or which expresses a gross, tare or net weight not ascertained by the weighmaster.  (7) For a person to deliver solid fuel without an official weighmaster's certificate. (8) For a person to furnish a false name or address of a purchaser to the licensed weighmaster at the time of weighing.  (9) For a person to permit any diminution of a load before its delivery to the purchaser or purchasers of the load.  (10) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, for a person to fail, neglect or refuse to deliver a correct and lawful weighmaster's certificate to the purchaser of a commodity whose name and address appears on the weighmaster's certificate.  (11) For a person to otherwise directly or indirectly violate a provision of this subchapter. (b) Prima facie evidence of short weight.--Whenever any commodity is sold and delivered to the purchaser named in the approved weighmaster's certificate and the seller or the seller's representative neglects, fails or refuses to deliver an approved weighmaster's certificate at the time of delivery or the net weight of the commodity is determined to be less than the net amount stated on the approved weighmaster's certificate or as otherwise represented to the purchaser, prima facie evidence of short weight shall exist, and the seller may be prosecuted under this section for short weight.  (c) Prima facie evidence of diminution of load.--Whenever the gross weight of a vehicle and load and the tare weight and net weight of a commodity have been determined in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter and the net weight of the commodity is determined to be less than that stated in a weighmaster's certificate, proof of the determination shall constitute prima facie evidence of the diminution of the load of the commodity before delivery to the purchaser.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4160 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4160 - Sales by weight

§ 4160. Sales by weight. Any commodity shall be duly weighed by a licensed weighmaster of this Commonwealth on accurate scales which are suitable for weighing the tare and gross weight of the vehicle or vehicle and trailer transporting the commodity and which are located in this Commonwealth and have been tested and approved by an official empowered by law to test the scales. Weighing shall be done by a licensed weighmaster at the time of sale or delivery.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4161 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4161 - Separation required

§ 4161. Separation required. When more than one type of solid fuel or other commodity is sold or delivered to a consumer, the vehicle making the delivery shall have a partition separating each type of solid fuel or other commodity, and each type shall be accompanied by a weighmaster's certificate, except as otherwise provided for in this subchapter.
3 PA Cons Stat § 4162 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 41 - Weights and Measures|Section 4162 - Substitution of another purchaser in weighmaster's certificate

§ 4162. Substitution of another purchaser in weighmaster's certificate. If a person is, for practical reasons, unable to deliver a commodity to the purchaser originally designated in the weighmaster's certificate, the person may substitute the name and address of another purchaser, provided that a report of the substitution is made to the licensed weighmaster within 24 hours.