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AL Code § 8-16-18 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 8-16-18 - Penalties for Violation of Chapter.

Section 8-16-18Penalties for violation of chapter. (a) Any person violating any provision of this chapter or the rules and regulations issued hereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, unless otherwise provided in this chapter, shall be fined not more than $500 and may also be sentenced to hard labor for not more than six months. (b) In addition to the criminal penalty provided for in subsection (a), the Board of Agriculture and Industries may adopt a schedule of civil fines for violations of this chapter. All fines collected under this chapter shall be deposited into the Agricultural Fund in the State Treasury. (Ag. Code 1927, §611; Code 1940, T. 2, §12; Act 2013-212, p. 485, §1.)
AL Code § 8-16-30 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 2 - Local Sealers.|Section 8-16-30 - Appointment; Qualifications; Keeping of Standards and Apparatus by Cities and Counties.

Section 8-16-30Appointment; qualifications; keeping of standards and apparatus by cities and counties. (a) The county commission of each county and the mayor or other governing body of any city may appoint for their respective county or city one or more sealers of weights and measures; provided, however, that two or more counties may appoint jointly for their counties a sealer, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries; provided further, that any county and any city within the county may jointly appoint a sealer of weights and measures, subject to the approval of the commissioner. (b) No person shall be appointed as local sealer of weights and measures until he has received a certificate from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries showing that such person had the qualifications required by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries. (c) All such counties or cities appointing a sealer of weights and measures shall keep at all times, at the expense of the county or city, or both, such standards and apparatus of such material and construction as the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries may direct. All such standards and apparatus, having been tried and accurately proven, shall be sealed and certified to by the commissioner as provided for in this chapter, and shall be then preserved by the county or city sealer as public standards for such county or city. (Ag. Code 1927, §233; Code 1940, T. 2, §592.)
AL Code § 8-16-31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 2 - Local Sealers.|Section 8-16-31 - Term of Office; Salary; Removal; Bond.

Section 8-16-31Term of office; salary; removal; bond. (a) Local sealers of weights and measures shall hold office for such terms and receive such salaries as the appointing power may prescribe. (b) The salary shall be paid out of the county or city treasury, as the case may be, and no fee shall be charged by the local sealer or by the county or city for inspecting, testing or sealing of weights, measures or weighing or measuring devices. (c) Local sealers may be removed at any time by the authority which appointed them for nonfeasance, misfeasance or malfeasance in office. (d) The local sealer shall forthwith on his appointment give a bond in such penal sum with such surety as is approved by the appointing power for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. (Ag. Code 1927, §234; Code 1940, T. 2, §593.)
AL Code § 8-16-32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 2 - Local Sealers.|Section 8-16-32 - Records and Reports.

Section 8-16-32Records and reports. (a) A local sealer of weights and measures shall keep a complete record of all of his official acts and shall make an annual report duly sworn to on October 1 to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries on blanks to be furnished by the commissioner, which report shall be included in the commissioner's general report to the State Board of Agriculture and Industries. (b) Local sealers shall make such reports to the appointing power as may be designated by the appointing power. (Ag. Code 1927, §235; Code 1940, T. 2, §594.)
AL Code § 8-16-90 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-90 - Prohibited Acts Generally.

Section 8-16-90Prohibited acts generally. Any person who, by himself or 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 commodity or thing or for hire or reward or in the computation of any charge for services rendered on the basis of weight or measure when a charge is made for such determination, retain in his possession a false weight or measure or weighing or measuring device or any tool or appliance used in connection therewith which has not been sealed by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or by a local sealer of weights and measures within one year, shall dispose of any condemned weight, measure or weighing or measuring device contrary to law, remove any tag placed thereon by the commissioner or a local sealer, who shall sell or offer or expose for sale less than the quantity he represents of any commodity, thing or service, shall take or attempt to take more than the quantity he represents when as the buyer he furnishes the weight, measure or weighing or measuring device by means of which the amount of any commodity, thing or service is determined, who shall keep for the purpose of sale, offer, expose for sale or sell any commodity in a manner contrary to law, who shall violate any provision of this chapter for which a specific penalty has not been provided or who shall sell, offer or expose for sale or use or have in his possession for the purpose of using or selling any device or instrument to be used to, or calculated to, falsify any weight or measure, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ag. Code 1927, §243; Code 1940, T. 2, §601.)
AL Code § 8-16-91 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-91 - Net Weight of Commodity Basis for Sales by Weight.

Section 8-16-91Net weight of commodity basis for sales by weight. Whenever any commodity, other than bale cotton, is sold on a basis of weight, it shall be unlawful to employ any other weight in such sale than the net weight of the commodity; and all contracts concerning goods sold on a basis of weight shall be understood and construed accordingly. Whenever the "weight" of a commodity is mentioned in this chapter, it shall be understood and construed to mean the net weight of the commodity. (Ag. Code 1927, §262; Code 1940, T. 2, §618.)
AL Code § 8-16-93 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-93 - Net Quantities of Contents of Packages to Be Marked on Outside.

Section 8-16-93Net quantities of contents of packages to be marked on outside. (a) It shall be unlawful to keep for the purpose of sale, offer or expose for sale or sell any commodity in package form unless the net quantity of the contents is plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure or numerical count; provided, however, that reasonable variations or tolerances shall be permitted, and that these reasonable variations and tolerances shall be established by rules and regulations made and promulgated by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries; and provided further, that this section shall not be construed to apply to those commodities in package form, the manner of sale of which is specifically regulated by the provisions of other sections of this chapter. (b) The words "in package form," as used in this section, shall be construed to include a commodity in a package, carton, case, can, box, barrel, bottle, phial or other receptacle or in coverings or wrappings of any kind put up by the manufacturer, or put up prior to the order of the commodity by the vendor, which may be labeled, branded, stenciled or otherwise marked or which may be suitable for labeling, branding, stenciling or marking otherwise, making one complete package of the commodity. The words "in package form" shall be construed to include both the wholesale and the retail package. "Package," as used in this section, does not include any container in which are packed or contained packages of a smaller size of a commodity, but the provisions of this section apply only to the container directly including the commodity. (Ag. Code 1927, §§255, 256; Code 1940, T. 2, §§612, 613.)
AL Code § 8-16-94 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-94 - Weight per Bushel or Barrel of Certain Commodities Established by Custom of Marketplace; Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries Authorized to Promulgate Rules Concerning Weights per Bushel or Barrel.

Section 8-16-94Weight per bushel or barrel of certain commodities established by custom of marketplace; Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries authorized to promulgate rules concerning weights per bushel or barrel. (a) Whenever any commodities shall be sold or delivered and no special written contract or agreement shall be made to the contrary, if sold or authorized to be sold by the bushel or barrel, said bushel or barrel of such commodities shall be the weight per bushel or barrel as is generally recognized and accepted in the marketplace, and the fractional part of the bushel or barrel shall be the corresponding fractional part of the weight per bushel or barrel as is generally recognized and accepted in the marketplace for such commodity. (b) All such commodities shall be bought or sold by actual weight unless otherwise agreed to in writing between the seller and buyer; provided, however, that any of such commodities may be sold by numerical count; and provided further, that turnips, kale, mustard and spinach salad and other vegetables customarily sold by the bunch may be sold by the bunch. (c) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, as provided under the provisions of Section 2-2-16, is authorized and empowered to promulgate rules and regulations concerning minimum weights per bushel or barrel or other type container for the sale of commodities, as is needed for the standardization of the sale of such commodities in the marketplace. (Ag. Code 1927, §246; Code 1940, T. 2, §604; Acts 1980, No. 80-759, p. 1584.)
AL Code § 8-16-95 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-95 - Milk and Cream Bottles and Containers - Capacities; Markings; Bond Required of Manufacturers.

Section 8-16-95Milk and cream bottles and containers - Capacities; markings; bond required of manufacturers. (a) Bottles or other containers used for the sale of milk or cream shall be of the capacity of one gallon, three quarts, one-half gallon, one quart, one-third quart, one pint, one-half pint, and one gill. (b) Each bottle or other container used for the sale of milk or cream shall be clearly and permanently marked with its capacity and with the word "sealed." For purposes of identification, such bottles and other containers shall also have clearly and permanently marked thereon the name, initials or trademark of the manufacturer and the manufacturer's mold designation which identifies the pattern or design of the bottles. The capacity designation and the word "sealed" shall be clearly and permanently marked on the side of the bottle or container. (c) A bond of $1,000, with surety to be approved by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, together with a complete description of the bottle or container, shall be furnished the commissioner by the manufacturer, conditioned upon their conformance with the requirements of this section and such regulations as may be promulgated by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries for the purposes of this section. A record of the bonds furnished and identification shall be kept in the office of the commissioner. (Ag. Code 1927, §248; Code 1940, T. 2, §606; Acts 1951, No. 123, p. 352; Acts 1967, No. 431, p. 1100.)
AL Code § 8-16-96 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-96 - Milk and Cream Bottles and Containers - Penalty for Selling or Using Noncomplying Containers.

Section 8-16-96Milk and cream bottles and containers - Penalty for selling or using noncomplying containers. (a) Any manufacturer or dealer who sells, or offers to sell, milk or cream bottles or containers to be used in the state that do not comply as to size and marking with the provisions of this article shall suffer a penalty of $500, to be recovered by the Attorney General in an action against the offender's bondsman, to be brought in the name of the state in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama. (b) Any dealer who offers for sale, or who uses for the purpose of selling, milk or cream jars, bottles or containers that do not comply with the requirements of this article as to markings and capacity shall be guilty of offering for sale or using a false or insufficient measure. (Ag. Code 1927, §249; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §607.)
AL Code § 8-16-97 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-97 - Milk and Cream Bottles and Containers - Duties of Sealers.

Section 8-16-97Milk and cream bottles and containers - Duties of sealers. Local sealers of weights and measures are not required to seal bottles or containers for milk or cream marked as provided in this article; but they shall have the power to, and shall from time to time, make tests on individual bottles or containers in order to ascertain if the provisions of this article are being complied with, and they shall immediately report violations found to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries. (Ag. Code 1927, §250; Code 1940, T. 2, §608.)
AL Code § 8-16-98 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-98 - Coal, Coke, or Charcoal - Sale by Weight; "Ton" Defined; Restriction on Liquid Substances in Coal, Coke, or Charcoal.

Section 8-16-98Coal, coke, or charcoal - Sale by weight; "ton" defined; restriction on liquid substances in coal, coke, or charcoal. (a) It shall be unlawful to sell, or offer to sell, any coal, coke, or charcoal in any other manner than by weight. When sold by the ton, 2,000 pounds avoirdupois shall be the weight of the ton. (b) No coal, charcoal or coke shall be sold at retail which contained, at the time the weight was taken, more water or other liquid substance than is due to natural conditions, weather conditions or causes incident to the mining, cleaning, or handling of the coal, charcoal, or coke, except by and with the consent of the purchaser. (Ag. Code 1927, §252; Code 1940, T. 2, §610.)
AL Code § 8-16-99 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-99 - Coal, Coke, or Charcoal - Delivery Tickets.

Section 8-16-99Coal, coke, or charcoal - Delivery tickets. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver any coal, coke, or charcoal without such delivery being accompanied by a delivery ticket and a duplicate thereof, on each of which shall be marked clearly and distinctly the gross weight of the load expressed in pounds, the tare of the delivery vehicle and the quantity or quantities of coal, coke, or charcoal contained in the vehicle used in such deliveries, the name of the purchaser and the name of the dealer from whom purchased. (b) Such ticket shall be surrendered to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or local sealer of weights and measures upon his demand for his inspection, and if he desires to retain this ticket he shall return a duplicate ticket. The original or duplicate ticket shall be delivered to the purchaser of the coal, coke, or charcoal, or his agent, at the time of the delivery of the fuel and the other ticket shall be retained by the seller of the fuel. (Ag. Code 1927, §253; Code 1940, T. 2, §611.)
AL Code § 8-16-100 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-100 - Coal, Coke, or Charcoal - Weighing of Coal at Time of Purchase at Request of Purchaser.

Section 8-16-100Coal, coke, or charcoal - Weighing of coal at time of purchase at request of purchaser. When a dealer or dealers in coal in cities or towns where public sales are kept may be requested by a person or persons buying as much as 500 pounds of coal at any one time to weigh such coal upon the public scales, such dealer or dealers shall do so. The person or persons buying the coal shall pay the fee for weighing the same if such is of proper weight; otherwise, such fee shall be paid by the dealer. Any dealer refusing to weigh or to have weighed such coal as required in this section or to pay such fee for weighing the same as required by this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ag. Code 1927, §251; Code 1940, T. 2, §609.)
AL Code § 8-16-101 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-101 - Fruit, Nuts, Vegetables and Grain to Be Sold by Avoirdupois Weight or Numerical Count.

Section 8-16-101Fruit, nuts, vegetables and grain to be sold by avoirdupois weight or numerical count. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article or when sold in the original standard container, all fruit, nuts, vegetables and grain shall be sold at retail by avoirdupois weight or numerical count. (b) The words "original standard container," as used in this section, shall mean and include only barrels, boxes, baskets, hampers or similar containers, the dimensions or capacity of which are established by regulations of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, the contents of which have not been removed or repacked by the retailer and upon which is plainly and conspicuously marked the net quantity of the contents thereof in terms of weight, measure or numerical count. (c) This section shall not apply to the sale by the bunch of fresh beets, onions, turnips, carrots and other similar vegetables usually and customarily sold by the bunch. (Ag. Code 1927, §257; Code 1940, T. 2, §614.)
AL Code § 8-16-102 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-102 - Cornmeal and Grits to Be Sold in Five to 200 Pound Packages; Exceptions.

Section 8-16-102Cornmeal and grits to be sold in five to 200 pound packages; exceptions. (a) No person shall sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, have in possession with intent to sell, pack or deliver in this state cornmeal or grits in packages of sizes other than five pounds, 10 pounds, 25 pounds, 50 pounds, 100 pounds and 200 pounds; provided, that any person may weigh and sell from bulk cornmeal or grits any number of pounds desired by a customer on order and provided further, that any person may sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, have in possession with intent to sell, pack or deliver in this state cornmeal or grits in weight packages weighing less than five pounds. (b) For the purpose of this section, the term "cornmeal" shall be deemed to include all products in the form of meal or grits derived from corn, with or without additional processing, such as bolting, degerming or refining, and all mixtures of same with chemicals and other modifying agents. (Ag. Code 1927, §§99, 100; Code 1940, T. 2, §§134, 135; Acts 1945, No. 284, p. 471, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 8-16-103 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-103 - Flour to Be Sold in Packages of Five to 200 Pounds; Exceptions.

Section 8-16-103Flour to be sold in packages of five to 200 pounds; exceptions. (a) No person shall sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, have in possession with intent to sell, pack or deliver in this state flour in packages of sizes other than five pounds, 10 pounds, 25 pounds, 50 pounds, 100 pounds and 200 pounds; provided, that any person may weigh and sell from bulk flour any number of pounds desired by a customer on order; and provided further, that any person may sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, have in possession with intent to sell, pack or deliver in this state flour in weight packages weighing less than five pounds. (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to the sale of flour to commercial bakers or blenders or for export in containers of more than 100 pounds. (c) For the purpose of this section, the term "flour" shall include flours derived from cereals or other vegetable sources and mixtures of the same with or without added chemicals or other modifying agents. (Ag. Code 1927, §§104, 105; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §§301, 302; Acts 1945, No. 284, p. 471, §§3, 4.)
AL Code § 8-16-104 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.|Section 8-16-104 - Sale of Ice Regulated.

Section 8-16-104Sale of ice regulated. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell ice in any other manner than by weight. (b) All ice shall be correctly weighed by the seller at the time of delivery to the purchaser. All agents or employees of any person, firm or corporation engaged in the sale and delivery of ice shall be provided with suitable and correct weighing devices to be used for the purpose of correctly weighing each piece of ice delivered. (c) It shall be unlawful for any such agent or employee to report or make a charge for any quantity of ice in excess of the quantity in pounds, or fraction thereof, actually delivered according to the weight thereof. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation delivering ice to refuse, on demand, to allow the purchaser to witness the weighing of the same at the time of delivery, or to refuse, on demand, to furnish the purchaser with a weight slip at the time of delivery containing the name of the person, firm or corporation selling the ice, the number of pounds sold and signed by the agent or employee of such person, firm or corporation. (d) Whoever, being engaged in the business of selling ice at retail and not engaged in the delivery of the same under a contract, refuses to sell from any place or vehicle engaged in the regular distribution of ice at retail a piece of ice at the fair value thereof to any person other than an ice dealer shall, if such person tenders in payment the fair value thereof in the amount of $.05 or any multiple thereof not more than $.50 in legal money of the United States, be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ag. Code 1927, §247; Code 1940, T. 2, §605.)