215.7  Transactions by false weights or measures.

Any person shall be deemed to have violated the provisions of this chapter and shall be punished as provided in chapter 189:

1.  If such person sell, trade, deliver, charge for or claim to have delivered to a purchaser an amount of any commodity which is less in weight or measure than that which is asked for, agreed upon, claimed to have been delivered, or noted on the delivery ticket.

2.  If such person make settlement for or enter credit, based upon any false weight or measurement, for any commodity purchased.

3.  If such person make settlement for or enter credit, based upon any false weight or measurement, for any labor where the price of producing or mining is determined by weight or measure.

4.  If such person record a false weight or measurement upon the weight ticket or book.

Section History: Early form

  [SS15, § 3009-j; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3272; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 215.7]


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