COMPILED CODE - Iowa Legislature - State of Iowa

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Tit. VII, Ch. 13. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. §§ 1572-1586.
CHAPTER 13.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
SECTION 1572. Standards of weight. No change made
1 The units or standards of weight, from which all other weights SmífÍíp^nSS!^
2 shall be derived and ascertained, shall be the standard weights desig- mPiied code.
3 nated in this chapter. The hundredweight consists of one hundred
4 avoirdupois pounds, and twenty hundredweight are a ton. When-
5 ever, hereafter, in this chapter, the word "pound" is used, it shall
6 mean the avoirdupois pound unless otherwise distinctly specified.
[C, '51, § 938; R., '60, § 1776; C, '73, §§ 2042, 2043; C, '97,
§3012;S.,'13, §3009-e.]
SEC. 1586. Automatic weighing or measuring device—license tag
and fee.
1 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation by himself,
2 or as the officer, servant, agent, or employee of any person, firm or
3 corporation to operate or use or display for use any scale or scales,
4 known as money in the slot or automatic scale or scales or any weighing
5 device, apparatus, or machine, which is used or intended for use to
6 determine the weight of any person or persons, where compensation
7 is derived, or any public or custom scale for which a fee is charged or
8 accepted for weighing, or any gasoline pump or meter, unless said scale
9 or device, or gasoline pump or, meter, is licensed by the commissioner.
10 Upon payment of the license fee of three dollars, the commissioner
11 shall issue a metal license "tag bearing the words "Licensed by the
12 Dairy and Food Commissioner, State of Iowa, No. —, .", each tag to
13 be numbered consecutively and bear the year for which license is valid.
14 The tag shall be displayed prominently on the front of the weigh-
15 ing device or gasoline pump or meter and the defacing or wrongful
16 removal of such a tag shall be deemed a misdemeanor.
17 Absence of the tag shall be prima facie evidence that the weigh-
18 ing device or gasoline pump or -meter is being operated contrary to
19 law.
20 No license shall be issued until the annual fee of three dollars is
21 paid to the commissioner for each scale or weighing device, or gasoline
22 pump or meter, operated or used.
23 Any person desiring to secure said license shall make application
24 therefor upon blanks to be furnished by the commissioner. The com-
25 missioner may withhold or revoke any license for cause.
26 All licenses issued under this section shall expire on December
27 thirty-first of each year, except in the case of gasoline pumps and
28 meters the license shall become due on the first day of July of each
29 year. All license and inspection fees collected under this section shall
30 be paid into the state treasury by the commissioner.
31 Products weighed upon any scale bearing inspection card, issued
32 by the dairy and food commission, shall not be required to be re-
33 weighed by any ordinance of any city or town or city under special
34 charter or under the commission form of government nor shall their
35 sale, at the weights so ascertained, and because, thereof, be, by such
36 ordinance, prohibited or restricted.
[S. S., '15, § 3009-m; 39 G. A., ch. 182, § 1.]