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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:6A-1 - Buyer on basis of bulk value; duties; serialized receipts; digital photographs.

51:6A-1 Buyer on basis of bulk value; duties; serialized receipts; digital photographs.
1. Any person in the business of buying precious metals who buys, attempts to buy or offers to buy precious metals on the basis of bulk value from any person who is not in the business of selling precious metals shall:
a. Clearly and prominently display at the point of purchase:
(1) His name and address;
(2) The price being offered or paid by the buyer for precious metals expressed as price per standard measure of weight and fineness as prescribed by the Superintendent of Weights and Measures.
b. Include his name and address in all advertisements concerning such precious metals.
c. Weigh the precious metals in plain view of the seller on State certified scales with the certificate of inspection clearly and prominently displayed.
d. Test the fineness of precious metals, if any test is so performed, in plain view of the seller.
e. Issue to the seller and keep for his own records, for not less than one year, a serialized receipt for each purchase of precious metals containing the following:
(1) The name and address of the buyer;
(2) Date of the transaction;
(3) The names of the precious metals purchased;
(4) The finenesses of the precious metals purchased;
(5) The weights of the precious metals purchased;
(6) The prices paid for the precious metals at the standard measures of weight and fineness prescribed by the superintendent;
(7) The name, address and signature of the seller of the precious metals.
f. Obtain proof of identity from each person who sells precious metals to him.
g. Retain any precious metals in the form in which they were purchased for a period of not less than two business days, minimum 48 hours.
h. Upon reasonable request, allow the inspection of the serialized receipts or precious metals provided for in subsections e. and g. respectively of this section by any law enforcement officer or weights and measures official.
i. Obtain a bond in an amount and form prescribed by regulations of the Office of Weights and Measures. The bond shall be obtained from a surety company authorized by law to do business in this State. The bond shall run to the State for the benefit of any person injured by the wrongful act, default, fraud or misrepresentation of the buyer of precious metals. No bond shall comply with the requirements of this subsection unless the bond contains a provision that it shall not be cancelled for any cause unless notice of intention to cancel is filed in the Office of Weights and Measures at least 30 days before the day upon which cancellation shall take effect. This subsection shall only apply to transient buyers.
j. Maintain, for not less than one year, digital photographs of the precious metals purchased.
L.1981, c.96, s.1; amended 2013, c.247, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:6A-2 - Registration of buyer; transient buyer; additional requirements; violation; penalty

51:6A-2. Registration of buyer; transient buyer; additional requirements; violation; penalty
A buyer of precious metals as provided for in this act shall, before buying, attempting to buy or offering to buy any precious metals, register with the police of the municipality in which he intends to conduct his business and give his name and address. A transient buyer of precious metals shall, in addition to the information required of a buyer of precious metals, provide the address at which he intends to do business in the municipality and shall reregister if he changes his location of doing business in the municipality or if he discontinues doing business for more than 20 days in the municipality and subsequently wants to resume doing business therein. Any person who violates any provision of this section is a disorderly person.
L.1981, c. 96, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:6A-3 - Penalties.

51:6A-3 Penalties.
3. Any person who violates any provision of this act shall be liable to a mandatory penalty of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 recoverable by the Superintendent of Weights and Measures pursuant to the provisions of the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.). An action for the recovery of a civil penalty for violation of this act shall be within the jurisdiction of and may be brought before the Superior Court or municipal court in the municipality where the offense is committed or where the defendant resides or where the defendant may be apprehended.
A summons or warrant against any foreign business entity doing business in this State shall be processed as provided by law.
L.1981, c.96, s.3; amended 1991, c.91, s.482; 2013, c.126, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:6A-4 - Arrest without warrant

51:6A-4. Arrest without warrant
On the violation of any of the provisions of this act within his view, a weights and measures officer may without warrant arrest the offender and conduct him before a court having jurisdiction.
L.1981, c. 96, s. 4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:6A-5 - Definitions

51:6A-5. Definitions
For purposes of this act:
a. "Precious metals" means gold, silver, platinum, palladium and alloys thereof.
b. "His name and address" means the name of the buyer and the legal name of the business under which the buyer is doing business, together with the permanent business address.
c. "Transient buyer" means a buyer of precious metals as provided for in this act who has not been in any retail business continuously for at least 6 months at the address in the municipality where he is required to register or who intends to close out or discontinue all retail business in the municipality within 6 months.
L.1981, c. 96, s. 5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:6A-6 - Inapplicability of act to government agencies, banks, or commodity markets

51:6A-6. Inapplicability of act to government agencies, banks, or commodity markets
This act is not applicable to government agencies, State or Federally chartered banks or Federally regulated commodity markets.
L.1981, c. 96, s. 6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:6A-7 - Right of municipalities to enact more restrictive ordinances or resolutions

51:6A-7. Right of municipalities to enact more restrictive ordinances or resolutions
This act is not intended, and nothing in this act shall be construed to preclude the right of any municipality to adopt and enforce ordinances or regulations more restrictive than this act or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder.
L.1981, c. 96, s. 7.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:6A-8 - Severability

51:6A-8. Severability
If the provisions of any section, subsection, paragraph, subdivision or clause of this act shall be adjudged invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the order or judgment shall not affect or invalidate the remainder of any section, subsection, paragraph, subdivision or clause of this act and, to this end, the provisions of each section, subsection, paragraph, subdivision or clause of this act are declared to be severable.
L.1981, c. 96, s. 8.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:6A-9 - Certification of weight or measure used by precious metals buyer.

51:6A-9 Certification of weight or measure used by precious metals buyer.
3. a. Upon the first official inspection of any weight or measure used by a precious metals buyer not subject to the provisions of section 2 of P.L.1981, c.96 (C.51:6A-2) that has not been certified as required pursuant to subsection c. of section 1 of P.L.1981, c.96 (C.51:6A-1), the owner of the weight or measure may be afforded two days to have the weight or measure certified. If an owner fails to have the weight or measure certified within two days after the inspection, the weights and measures officer shall immediately take possession of and destroy the weight or measure, unless, in the sole discretion of the superintendent, good cause exists to allow additional time to obtain the certification or take possession of and destroy the weight or measure.
b. A weights and measures officer shall immediately take possession of and destroy any weight or measure used by a transient buyer of precious metals as defined by section 5 of P.L.1981, c.96 (C.51:6A-5) that has not been certified as required pursuant to subsection c. of section 1 of P.L.1981, c.96 (C.51:6A-1).
No action for damages shall lie or be maintained against a weights and measures officer for the seizure.
L.2013, c.126, s.3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:7-1 - Definitions

51:7-1. Definitions
For the purpose of this chapter the following words shall be deemed to have the meaning herein given:
a. "Department" shall mean state department of weights and measures.
b. "Person" shall be construed to include any individual, partnership, unincorporated association, corporation or other form of business enterprise.
c. "Weights and measures officers" shall be construed to include the state superintendent of weights and measures or his assistants or inspectors, county or assistant county superintendents of weights and measures or inspectors, and municipal or assistant municipal superintendents of weights and measures or inspectors.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:7-2 - Transporting anthracite into state over highways by motor vehicle; certificate of origin required; signatures

51:7-2. Transporting anthracite into state over highways by motor vehicle; certificate of origin required; signatures
It shall be unlawful for any person to transport over the highways of this State any anthracite brought into this State by motor vehicle from outside of this State unless such anthracite when it crosses any boundary line of this State and at all times thereafter during the transportation thereof over the highways of this State is accompanied by an original certificate of origin signed by the person who is the owner or operator of the breaker, colliery, yard or other place of production or storage, or his duly authorized agent, where the anthracite to which the certificate of origin refers was produced or stored and also signed by the person driving or operating the motor vehicle on which said anthracite is transported into this State.
Amended by L.1938, c. 242, p. 547, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:7-3 - Contents of certificate of origin

51:7-3. Contents of certificate of origin
The certificate of origin shall contain the following:
a. The name or names and location of, and the name or names of the owners or operators of, the breaker, colliery, yard or other place of production or storage where the anthracite to which the certificate refers has been produced or stored.
b. The kind, size and weight of the anthracite.
c. The name and address of person claiming ownership of said anthracite.
d. The name and address of the driver of the motor vehicle transporting said anthracite and the State motor vehicle registration number of said vehicle.
e. The name and address of the person or persons to whom said anthracite is to be delivered.
f. The date said certificate is issued.
Amended by L.1952, c. 146, p. 503, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:7-4 - Issuance of certificates; nontransferable; false certificate

51:7-4. Issuance of certificates; nontransferable; false certificate
The certificates of origin as herein provided shall be issued only on forms to be supplied, on application therefor, by the superintendent of the department, shall be serially numbered and issued consecutively. A nominal charge to cover the cost of supplying such forms may be made by the superintendent. Said certificates of origin shall be nontransferable and any person who has in his possession or who files with a weighmaster or forwards to the superintendent a false certificate of origin shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this chapter.
The superintendent of the department shall issue such blank certificates of origin to any person who is the owner or operator of a colliery, breaker or other place of production or who is the owner or operator of a yard, pocket or other place of storage, outside the State of New Jersey, upon application therefor by such person showing the necessity for the issuance of said certificates and upon proof satisfactory to the superintendent that all anthracite produced or stored is not stolen and is legally acquired at its source. Notification shall promptly be given to the superintendent in case of change of source or the obtaining of anthracite from new sources since the time said application is made, and satisfactory proof shall be furnished that the anthracite is legally acquired at the new sources.
Whenever any person who transports or intends to transport anthracite into this State furnishes proof satisfactory to the superintendent that all anthracite so transported or to be transported is legally acquired at its source and is not stolen, and further, that such person is unable to obtain certificates of origin at the breaker, colliery or other place of production or at the yard, pocket or other place of storage, blank certificates shall be issued to such person in such number as the business of such person requires.
Amended by L.1938, c. 242, p. 547, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:7-5 - Duplicate certificate filed with weighmaster

51:7-5. Duplicate certificate filed with weighmaster
Any person bringing anthracite into this State from outside of this State and said anthracite is to be sold or delivered within the boundaries of this State shall file a duplicate of the required certificate of origin with the weighmaster in charge of the scales where said person has said anthracite weighed in accordance with the requirements of the laws of this State, and such duplicates of said certificates of origin shall be retained at such scales for a period of one year, unless the superintendent directs the forwarding of the same to his office, and shall be subject and open to inspection by any weights and measures officer; after storage or sale of said anthracite in this State the original certificates of origin shall be forwarded to the superintendent at his office within ten days from the date of such sale or storage and the triplicate copy shall be kept by the person who sells or stores said anthracite.
Amended by L.1938, c. 242, p. 548, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:7-6 - Revoking license to sell solid fuel; voiding certificate of origin

51:7-6. Revoking license to sell solid fuel; voiding certificate of origin
The superintendent of the department shall revoke the license of any person licensed to sell solid fuel in this State who buys, sells or transports stolen anthracite within this State or who buys, sells or transports anthracite which has been acquired at a place of production, storage or source where stolen anthracite is handled or distributed, and shall issue to such person no further license to sell solid fuel in this State for a period of at least one year from the date of revocation. The superintendent shall give at least five days' notice of the proposed revocation proceedings, which notice shall contain the charges made against the licensee and the time and place of the hearing of said revocation proceedings; said notice shall be sent by registered mail to the address given by the licensee in his application for license to sell solid fuel; said licensee shall have the opportunity to appear and enter a defense at the hearing to be held at the office of the superintendent.
The superintendent shall void all certificates of origin where the person who obtains the same buys, sells or transports stolen anthracite or deals in or handles stolen anthracite. The superintendent may refuse to grant and may void certificates of origin where the person who applies for or obtains the same violates any of the provisions of this chapter or for any of the following reasons: Fraud or misrepresentation practices in procuring any such certificates; dishonesty in conducting his business; conduct of a character likely to defraud or deceive the public; transferring said certificates to a person other than the person to whom they were issued or for any conduct or practice at variance with the purpose of this chapter. Any person using voided certificates knowingly shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this chapter. Five days' notice by registered mail of the proposed refusal to grant or voiding of said certificates shall be given to the person who applied for or obtained the same and upon request of said person he shall be given an opportunity to show cause why the granting of said certificates should not be refused or said certificates voided.
Amended by L.1938, c. 242, p. 549, s. 4; L.1952, c. 146, p. 504, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:7-7 - Enforcement of chapter

51:7-7. Enforcement of chapter
All weights and measures officers in this State, in addition to their various duties now provided for by law, are hereby charged with the duty of enforcing and executing the provisions of this chapter, and the superintendent of the department shall make such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary for its enforcement.
Amended by L.1938, c. 242, p. 550, s. 5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:7-8 - Penalty for violations

51:7-8. Penalty for violations
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall upon being found guilty of such offense pay a fine of not less than $250.00 nor more than $1,000.00 or if unable to pay such fine shall be committed to a county jail for a period not to exceed 90 days.
Amended by L.1969, c. 251, s. 31, eff. Jan. 1, 1970.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:7-9 - Procedure for recovery of penalties; jurisdiction

51:7-9. Procedure for recovery of penalties; jurisdiction
51:7-9. Any penalty incurred under the provisions of this chapter shall be sued for in the name of the State of New Jersey by any weights and measures officer. Jurisdiction of all cases arising out of violations of the provisions of this chapter is hereby conferred upon the Superior Court and the municipal courts in the county in which such violations are committed.
Amended 1938,c.242,s.6; 1953,c.48,s.16; 1991,c.91,s.483.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:8-1 - Definitions

51:8-1. Definitions
For the purpose of this chapter the following words shall be deemed to have the meaning herein given them:
a. "Department" shall mean the Division of Weights and Measures in the Department of Law and Public Safety.
b. "Solid fuel" shall mean any anthracite, semianthracite, bituminous, semibituminous, or lignite coal, briquettes, boulettes, coke, gas house coke, petroleum coke, petroleum carbon or any other manufactured or patented fuel not sold by liquid or metered measure.
c. "Ton" shall mean the net ton of two thousand pounds avoirdupois.
d. "Vehicle" shall mean any truck, wagon, cart or other conveying device using the streets, alleys or other thoroughfares in this State, but not including railroad cars.
e. "Equipped dealer" shall mean any person who is regularly engaged in the sale, or sale and delivery of solid fuel; maintains unloading, storage and service facilities commensurate with the nature of the business; is equipped with and using wagon or truck scales, or other approved weighing or measuring devices, of sufficient size and capacity and maintained in condition accurately to weigh the maximum load for which they are utilized; maintains an office accessible to the public with a competent person on duty, and regularly carries a stock of solid fuel.
f. "Unequipped dealer" shall mean all other persons engaged in the sale, delivery, or sale and delivery of solid fuel.
g. "Person" shall be construed to include any individual, partnership, unincorporated association, corporation or other form of business enterprise.
h. "Weights and measures officers" shall be construed to include the Superintendent of the Division of Weights and Measures or his assistants or inspectors, county or assistant county superintendents of weights and measures or inspectors, and municipal or assistant municipal superintendents of weights and measures or inspectors.
Amended by L.1953, c. 48, p. 845, s. 17.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:8-2 - Sale, etc., not in accordance with chapter unlawful

51:8-2. Sale, etc., not in accordance with chapter unlawful
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, deliver, or sell and deliver, or weigh or issue weight certificates for, solid fuel in this state except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:8-3 - Enforcement; jurisdiction over inspectors

51:8-3. Enforcement; jurisdiction over inspectors
All weights and measures officers in this state, in addition to their various duties now provided for by law, are hereby charged with the duty of enforcing and executing the provisions of this chapter. Inspectors shall report to and work under the jurisdiction of the county or municipal superintendents; but if any county or municipal superintendent is not available or deems it inadvisable to sign a complaint, inspectors shall have the power to sign such complaints.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:8-6 - Sale by weight only; pounds to the ton; weighmaster to weigh

51:8-6. Sale by weight only; pounds to the ton; weighmaster to weigh
All solid fuel shall be sold by weight. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or deliver or start out for delivery less than two thousand pounds by weight to the ton of solid fuel or a proper proportion thereof when the quantity to be delivered is less than a ton, and such solid fuel shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be duly weighed by a weighmaster designated to weigh solid fuel, on stationary scales suitable for weighing solid fuel, which have been tested and sealed by any authorized weights and measures officer.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:8-7 - Weighing fuel of unequipped dealer on scales of equipped dealer

51:8-7. Weighing fuel of unequipped dealer on scales of equipped dealer
Unequipped dealers engaged in the sale, or sale and delivery of solid fuel in this state purchased from and weighed over the scales of an equipped dealer or wholesale pocket dealer in this state shall be furnished with weight certificates signed by the weighmaster of such equipped dealer or wholesale pocket dealer as provided in section 51:8-9 of this title, on forms of such unequipped dealers.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:8-8 - Weighing fuel of unequipped dealer on approved scales; procedure

51:8-8. Weighing fuel of unequipped dealer on approved scales; procedure
Unequipped dealers engaged in the sale and delivery of solid fuel in this state, except as provided in section 51:8-7 of this title, shall have such solid fuel weighed on scales tested and approved by the proper weights and measures officers. The owner of the scales on which such weighing is made shall furnish each unequipped dealer with a weight certificate, as provided in section 51:8-9 of this title, for each load or for each separate part of a load, on forms of such unequipped dealers, signed by the weighmaster of such owner, and a copy of each such weight certificate shall be retained at the scales where such weighing is done for a period of one year and shall be subject to inspection by any weights and measures officer. The owner of the scales shall keep, on forms approved by the superintendent of the department, an accurate record of all weighings made and such record shall be open to inspection by any weights and measures officer, for a period of one year.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:8-10 - Substituting name of another person in weight certificate

51:8-10. Substituting name of another person in weight certificate
Where any person shall be unable to deliver solid fuel to the purchaser originally designated in the weight certificate, he may, by direction of any weighmaster, designated to weigh solid fuel, substitute the name and address of another purchaser; provided, that report of such substitution is made within twenty-four hours to the weighmaster who issued the original weight certificate.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:8-11 - Weighing fuel in process of delivery

51:8-11. Weighing fuel in process of delivery
Any weights and measures officer who finds any quantity of solid fuel ready for or in process of delivery may direct the person in charge of the solid fuel to convey the same to the nearest available accurate scales designated by said officer. Such officer shall thereupon determine the weight of the solid fuel and the vehicle on which it is carried and shall direct such person in charge to return to such scales forthwith upon unloading the solid fuel and upon such return the officer shall determine the weight of the vehicle without load. It shall be unlawful for any person in charge of a vehicle containing such solid fuel or from which such solid fuel has been unloaded to fail to take the vehicle upon the direction of said officer to the scales as aforesaid or refuse to permit the solid fuel or vehicle to be weighed by such officer.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:8-13 - Disposition of license fees; payments to counties and municipalities of moneys collected

51:8-13. Disposition of license fees; payments to counties and municipalities of moneys collected
All license fees required to be collected by the superintendent of the division under the provisions of this chapter shall be turned over to the treasurer of the State of New Jersey who shall itemize and report separately in his annual report all income so received.
Amended by L.1971, c. 341, s. 7, eff. Dec. 13, 1971; L.1979, c. 421, s. 2, eff. Feb. 8, 1980.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:8-14 - Violations; penalties

51:8-14. Violations; penalties
It shall be unlawful:
a. For any weighmaster to issue a false or incorrect weight certificate or for any person to solicit him so to do.
b. For any weighmaster to permit any weight certificate to be issued or used which purports to bear his signature or seal but which was not in fact signed or sealed by him or which expresses a weight not ascertained by him.
c. For any person to use a false or incorrect weight certificate or to use a certificate not bearing the signature and seal of a weighmaster designated to weigh solid fuel.
d. For any person to deliver solid fuel in any vehicle not having securely and conspicuously attached thereto a license plate as provided in this act.
e. For any person to deliver solid fuel without a weight certificate.
f. For any person to fail, neglect, or refuse to deliver a correct and lawful weight certificate to the purchaser of solid fuel.
g. For any person to permit any diminution of the load of solid fuel after the weight thereof has been certified by a weighmaster designated to weigh solid fuel and before its delivery to the purchaser or purchasers thereof.
h. For any person to deliver or cause to be delivered less than the quantity of solid fuel represented in the weight certificate accompanying such solid fuel as provided in this chapter.
Any person violating any of the provisions of paragraphs "a," "b," "c" of this section shall, upon being found guilty of such offense, pay a fine of not less than $250.00, nor more than $1,000.00.
Any person violating any of the provisions of paragraphs "d," "e," or "f" of this section shall, upon being found guilty of such offense, pay a fine of not less than $50.00, nor more than $100.00.
Any person violating any of the provisions of paragraphs "g" or "h" of this section shall, upon being found guilty of such offense, pay a fine of not less than $50.00, nor more than $100.00, and shall, upon being found guilty of a second similar offense, pay a fine of not less than $100.00, nor more than $250.00, and shall, upon being found guilty of any subsequent similar offense, pay a fine of not less than $250.00, nor more than $500.00.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter not specified in this section shall, upon being found guilty of such offense, pay a fine of not less than $50.00, nor more than $100.00. Any person unable to pay a fine imposed under the provisions of this chapter shall be committed to jail for a period of not to exceed 6 months.
Amended by L.1969, c. 251, s. 32, eff. Jan. 7, 1970.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:8-15 - Procedure for recovery of penalties

51:8-15. Procedure for recovery of penalties
An action to recover any penalty incurred under the provisions of this chapter may be brought in the name of the State of New Jersey by any duly appointed weights and measures officer. The summons or warrant issued may be directed to a person named in section 51:1-105 of this Title or to any weights and measures officer.
It shall be the duty of the municipal attorney of any municipality wherein such violation shall take place to assist in the prosecution of the same, unless such municipality has no such municipal superintendent of weights and measures as provided for in section 51:1-43 of this Title, in which case the county prosecutor of the county wherein such violation shall take place shall assist in such prosecution.
Amended by L.1953, c. 48, p. 846, s. 18.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:8-16 - Arrest without warrant

51:8-16. Arrest without warrant
51:8-16. For violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, done within the view of any weights and measures officer, such weights and measures officer is authorized, without warrant, to arrest the offender or offenders and to conduct him or them before the Superior Court or any municipal court having jurisdiction in the county wherein such arrest is made or the offense is committed.
Amended 1953,c.48,s.19; 1991,c.91,s.484.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:8-19 - Disposition of penalties

51:8-19. Disposition of penalties
All fines and penalties collected from persons offending against the provisions of this chapter shall be paid by the magistrate or court clerk receiving the same, when recovered by a State weights and measures officer, to the State Treasurer; when recovered by a county weights and measures officer, to the county treasurer of such county; and when recovered by a municipal weights and measures officer, to the municipality which such officer represents.
Amended by L.1953, c. 48, p. 847, s. 22.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-1 - Definitions

51:9-1. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
a. The words "liquid fuels" shall be deemed to mean and to include fuel in liquid form, which can or may be used for heating purposes; Provided, however, that oils shall not be included if they possess a flash point of one hundred five degrees Fahrenheit or lower, as determined by the Tagliabue closed cup tester or a Saybolt Universal Viscosity at one hundred degrees Fahrenheit higher than fifty-five seconds.
b. The words "weights and measures official" shall be deemed to mean and to include any State, county or municipal superintendent, or assistant superintendent of weights and measures.
Amended by L.1938, c. 323, p. 834, s. 1; L.1953, c. 48, p. 847, s. 23.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-2 - Only approved measuring devices to be used; certificate of approval

51:9-2. Only approved measuring devices to be used; certificate of approval
It shall be illegal to use or to employ any measuring device for use in the purchase or sale of any liquid fuel without the same first being approved as to type and construction by the state superintendent of weights and measures and calibrated, tested and sealed by any weights and measures official. The state superintendent of weights and measures shall provide a form of certificate to be issued by a weights and measures official after the approval, testing, calibration and sealing of any measuring device, which certificate shall expire one year from the date thereof following issuance thereof and shall be renewed annually. It shall be unlawful to sell or deliver or have in possession with intent to deliver any liquid fuel unless such certificate shall be in possession at all times or carried on the vehicle to which it applies.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-4 - Calculating volume by weight; tables for conversion of weight to volume and temperature corrections

51:9-4. Calculating volume by weight; tables for conversion of weight to volume and temperature corrections
If the volume be calculated by weight, the net weight shall be determined by means of a scale of approved type and capacity, tested and sealed by any weights and measures official. For the conversion of weight to volume and for temperature corrections, the National Standard Petroleum Oil Tables as approved by the United States Bureau of Standards shall be used.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-5 - Measuring quantities between 50 and 10,000 gallons; exceptions

51:9-5. Measuring quantities between 50 and 10,000 gallons; exceptions
Each sale or delivery of liquid fuel exceeding 50 gallons but not exceeding 10,000 gallons shall be measured by means of a positive displacement liquid flow meter which has been tested and sealed as to its adjusting and recording elements by any weights and measures official; but this section shall not apply to liquid fuel sold in barrels or other containers upon which the quantity in terms of liquid measure is plainly and conspicuously marked, to liquid fuel sold to be delivered by the entire railroad tank car or cargo direct from the vessels, boats, or railroad tank cars or bulk tank trucks or compartments thereof containing the same to 1 destination and consigned to 1 person and accepted by the purchaser on the original bill of lading or invoice as proof of measurement or weight, or to the sale or delivery of liquid fuel which the State Superintendent of Weights and Measures determines does not by reason of its viscosity or other condition lend itself to metered measurement.
Amended by L.1956, c. 109, p. 493, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-6 - Measuring quantities over 10,000 gallons

51:9-6. Measuring quantities over 10,000 gallons
Deliveries of quantities in excess of 10,000 gallons may be measured through a meter or from compartments which have been calibrated and whose indicators have been sealed by any weights and measures official.
L.1937, c. 183, s. 6, p. 625. Amended by L.1956, c. 109, p. 494, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-7 - Delivery tickets; duplicates; contents

51:9-7. Delivery tickets; duplicates; contents
A delivery ticket and duplicate thereof shall be issued upon the completion of delivery of each sale or delivery of liquid fuel exceeding 10 gallons. If the sale or delivery exceeds 50 gallons and is of a type of liquid fuel which is required to be measured by meter, the ticket shall be printed by means of an automatic printing device attached to and co-ordinated with the operating mechanism of a meter approved for the measurement of liquid fuels pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. On each ticket there shall be distinctly and legibly expressed the date, the name and address of the seller, the name and address of the purchaser, the number of gallons sold or delivered, the grade of liquid fuel, and the signature of the person making such sale or delivery or his agent. One of such tickets shall be given to the purchaser and the other shall be retained by the seller for a period of 1 year, such retained tickets being subject to inspection by any weights and measures official. Delivery tickets shall be serially numbered. No duplicate or retained ticket shall be destroyed but may be voided and kept on file.
The provisions of this section shall not apply where there is a meter permanently attached and properly security sealed in the consuming apparatus of the consumer with the recording elements always available to him. In this situation, in lieu of a delivery ticket, there shall be rendered to the consumer by the seller a periodical statement of the amount of fuel delivered to him as indicated on the meter attached to his consuming apparatus. On notice to the seller a consumer may at any time elect to discontinue use of a meter attached to his consuming apparatus and to receive delivery tickets as in this section provided.
Amended by L.1956, c. 109, p. 494, s. 3; L.1964, c. 21, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-8 - Adjustment, repair or alteration of measuring device; removing meter from tank

51:9-8. Adjustment, repair or alteration of measuring device; removing meter from tank
It shall be unlawful after the approval, testing and sealing of any measuring device and equipment used in delivering liquid fuel, to adjust, repair or alter the same or to cause said measuring device and equipment to be adjusted, repaired or altered, unless approval of a weights and measures official is first obtained; and it shall be unlawful to remove any meter from the tank to which it is affixed at the time of testing and sealing to any other tank, unless immediate written notification is given to a weights and measures official advising of necessity of alterations or change.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-9 - Delivery measured by approved device; misrepresenting quantity

51:9-9. Delivery measured by approved device; misrepresenting quantity
No person shall deliver any liquid fuel without the same having been measured by a measuring device approved, tested and sealed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, nor shall any person sell or deliver less than the quantity represented to be sold and delivered.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-9.1 - Residential oil fill pipe, regulations, violations, fees

51:9-9.1. Residential oil fill pipe, regulations, violations, fees
a. The owner of any residential dwelling served by a home heating oil tank shall provide that the cap of any exterior heating oil fill pipe be colored green or that the tank fill pipe be equipped with a fill tightness system with a fill cap stamped or engraved in clear letters with the words "Fuel Oil."
b. No person may pump, pour, or otherwise place home heating oil into any exterior heating oil tank fill pipe of a residential dwelling unit unless that pipe is capped with a tank fill pipe cap that is colored green, or unless the tank fill pipe is equipped with a fill tightness system with a fill cap stamped or engraved in clear letters with the words "Fuel Oil."
c. A person who violates the provisions of this section is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $500. The penalty may be collected in a summary proceeding brought pursuant to "the penalty enforcement law," (N.J.S.2A:58-1 et seq.). The Superior Court and the municipal court shall have jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of "the penalty enforcement law" in connection with this act.
L.1991,c.163,s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-10 - Rules and regulations

51:9-10. Rules and regulations
The State Superintendent of Weights and Measures shall make such rules and regulations governing the type of all measuring devices and equipment used in the delivery of liquid fuel, and the manner of approval, testing, or calibrating of the same and the mailing and preserving of the periodical statements of meter readings sent to purchasers having meters on their consuming apparatus, as he may deem necessary, in order to prevent the perpetration of fraud in the sale of liquid fuel.
Amended by L.1964, c. 21, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-11 - Penalties; amount; disposition; municipal attorney to assist in prosecution

51:9-11. Penalties; amount; disposition; municipal attorney to assist in prosecution
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a penalty of not less than $50.00 nor more than $100.00, for the first offense, or for failure to forthwith pay such penalty shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not exceeding 20 days; and for a second offense, shall, after conviction, pay a penalty of not less than $100.00 nor more than $250.00 and for failure to forthwith pay such penalty shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not exceeding 40 days; and for a third or each subsequent offense, shall, after conviction, pay a penalty of not less than $250.00 nor more than $500.00, and for failure to forthwith pay such penalty shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not exceeding 60 days.
All penalties collected from persons violating the provisions of this chapter shall be paid by the magistrate or court clerk receiving the same, when recovered by the State Superintendent of Weights and Measures, or his assistants, to the State Treasurer; when recovered by a county weights and measures officer, to the county treasurer of such county; and when recovered by a municipal weights and measures officer, into the treasury of the municipality which such officer represents.
It shall be the duty of the municipal attorney of any municipality wherein any violation takes place to assist in the prosecution of the same and to assist in the trial of any appeal, where a complaint is made by a municipal weights and measures official and if such municipality has no municipal weights and measures official, the county prosecutor wherein such violation takes place shall assist in such prosecution.
Amended by L.1953, c. 48, p. 847, s. 24; 1969, c. 251, s. 33, eff. Jan. 7, 1970.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-12 - Summons or warrant to issue

51:9-12. Summons or warrant to issue
51:9-12. A complaint having been made to the Superior Court or a municipal court by any weights and measures official, that any person has violated any of the provisions of this chapter, a summons or a warrant may issue directed to any weights and measures official or to any constable or police officer for the appearance or arrest of the person so charged.
Amended 1953,c.48,s.25; 1991,c.91,s.485.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-16 - Request to Attorney-General to attend

51:9-16. Request to Attorney-General to attend
The county prosecutor of any county, charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter, may request the Attorney-General to attend personally, or by such assistant or assistants, as he shall designate to aid in any appeal which may be taken in any proceeding under this chapter.
Amended by L.1953, c. 48, p. 849, s. 29.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-17 - Entitling proceedings

51:9-17. Entitling proceedings
All proceedings for the violation of the provisions of this chapter shall run in the name of the State of New Jersey with the weights and measures official who institutes the proceeding as prosecutor.
Amended by L.1953, c. 48, p. 849, s. 30.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-18 - Arrest without warrant

51:9-18. Arrest without warrant
51:9-18. Any police officer, or weights and measures official is hereby authorized to arrest, without warrant, any person violating, in the presence of such police officer, or weights and measures official any of the provisions of this chapter, and to bring the defendant before the Superior Court or a municipal court in the county where such offense is committed.
Amended 1953,c.48,s.31; 1991,c.91,s.486.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers › Section 51:9-20 - Summons or warrant valid throughout State; arrest in county other than where violation occurred; procedure

51:9-20. Summons or warrant valid throughout State; arrest in county other than where violation occurred; procedure
51:9-20. A summons or warrant issued by any court having jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall be valid throughout the State, and any officer who has power to serve the said summons, or to serve said warrant and make arrest thereon, in the county where the same shall have been issued, shall have like power to serve said summons and to serve said warrant and make arrest thereon in any of the several counties of the State. If any person shall be arrested for a violation committed in the county other than that in which the arrest shall take place, the person so arrested may demand to be taken before the Superior Court or a municipal court in the county in which the arrest may have been made for the purpose of making a cash deposit or of entering into a recognizance with sufficient surety; whereupon the officer serving the said warrant shall take the person so apprehended before such a court in the county in which the arrest shall have been made, which shall thereupon fix a day for the matter to be heard before the court issuing the said warrant, and shall take from the person apprehended a cash deposit or recognizance to the State of New Jersey with sufficient surety or sureties for the appearance of the said person at the time and place designated. The cash deposit or recognizance so taken shall be returned to the court issuing the warrant, to be retained and disposed of by it as by this chapter provided.
Amended 1953,c.48,s.33; 1991.c.91,s.487.