Weights and Measures Regulations Overview
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Krishna YaduvanshiARTICLE 317
Weights and Measures
317.01 Standards to be Furnished.
317.02 Inspector of Weights and Measures; Powers and Duties
317.03 House-to-house Sales from Vehicles.
317.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Inspector of Weights and Measures - See 76 P.S. §201 et seq.
Power to regulate weighing and measuring of commodities - See 3rd Class
§2403 (52) (53 P.S. §37403 (52))
Weighing of solid fuel - See BUS. REG. Art. 315
317.01 STANDARDS TO BE FURNISHED.
The Inspector of Weights and Measures shall be supplied at the
expense of the City with standard tests of weights and measures in
uniformity with those established by the government of the United States or
the Bureau of Standards of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the
laws of this Commonwealth. (1946 Code C. 31 §2.)
317.02 INSPECTOR OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; POWERS
AND DUTIES.
The duties of the Inspector of Weights and Measures shall be to report
in writing to the chief of the State Bureau of Standards upon blanks to be
furnished by the Commonwealth:
(a) The number of tests made since the last preceding report.
(b) The number of weights, measures and balances found by such
tests to be correct.
(c) The number of weights, measures and balances found by such
test to be false.
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(d) The number of prosecutions instituted by such Inspector since
the last preceding report, together with the name of the accused, the title of
the court where prosecution was instituted and the result of such
prosecution.
(e) Such other matters as the chief may from time to time prescribe.
The Inspector of Weights and Measures shall take charge of and keep
safely the proper standards. He shall have power, within his respective
jurisdiction, to test all instruments and devices used in weighing or
measuring anything sold or to be sold, including instruments and devices for
weighing at coal mines and including instruments, weighing machines and
scales installed in places frequented by the public, which scales or weighing
machines by whatever means purport to indicate the weight of any person or
object placed thereon upon the deposit of a coin, and seal the same if found
to be correct. Such tests shall include all appliances connected or used with
such instruments or devices.
For the purpose of making such test, the Inspector of Weights and
Measures may, at any reasonable time and without formal warrant, enter
upon any premises, and may, on any public highway, stop any vendor or
dealer or the agent or servant of such vendor or dealer, or stop any vehicle
used in delivering any commodity which is weighed or measured as
delivered.
He may condemn and mark as condemned, or may seize any false or
illegal instrument or device used, or intended to be used, in weighing or
measuring. If he shall seize any such instrument or device, he shall retain
possession thereof until it shall have been used as evidence in any
prosecution under the laws of this Commonwealth relating to weights and
measures or to the sale of commodities. After the determination of such
prosecution, the false or illegal instrument or device shall be destroyed,
unless otherwise ordered by the proper court. (1946 Code C. 31 §3.)
317.03 HOUSE-TO-HOUSE SALES FROM VEHICLES.
All dealers selling merchandise by weight and measure from house to
house within the City shall, at all times when engaged in selling such
merchandise, keep and carry upon each vehicle accurate weights and
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measures which have been tested and sealed by the Inspector of Weights and
Measures. All merchandise sold from bulk quantities thereof carried on such
vehicle shall be weighed or measured on such weights and measures, and
such weighing shall be done in the presence of the purchaser thereof or his
agents or servants, whenever request thereof is made of the person in charge
of the vehicle delivering such commodity. (1946 Code C. 31 §4.)
317.99 PENALTY.
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall be fined six
hundred dollars ($600.00) or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both.
(Ord. 1768 §l. Passed 11/13/62; Ord. 3242-Passed 2/7/89)