CHAPTER 7. Weighmasters
Chapter 7 repealed and added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 646, Sec. 4.
§§ 12700–12737 · 43 sections
- § 12700 A weighmaster is any person who, for hire or otherwise, weighs, measures, or counts any commodity and issues a statement or memorandum of the weight, measure,…
- § 12700.5 (a) A weighmaster is not required to provide weighing services to the general public. (b) Weighing for hire is at the discretion of the weighmaster.
- § 12701 The following persons are not weighmasters: (a) Retailers weighing, measuring, or counting commodities for sale by them in retail stores in the presence of,…
- § 12702 “Weighmaster,” when used without qualification, includes a deputy weighmaster.
- § 12703 Except as provided in Section 12701, no person shall perform any acts described in Section 12700, unless licensed as a weighmaster pursuant to this chapter and…
- § 12703.1 (a) In addition to any other requirements for issuance of a license pursuant to this chapter, if the applicant is a recycler or junk dealer as defined in…
- § 12704 (a) A weighmaster shall pay to the department the following license fee for each license year as applicable to the operation: (1) Seventy-five dollars ($75) if…
- § 12705 Any change in the legal entity of a licensed weighmaster requires the new legal entity to obtain a weighmaster license before operating as a weighmaster.
- § 12706 (a) The secretary may assign or reassign dates for the expiration of licenses for any weighmaster. (b) The secretary may establish a license year for any…
- § 12707 Each license required by this chapter shall be renewed annually, on or before the first day of the first month of the licensee’s license year, by application…
- § 12708 The secretary may refuse to grant any license provided for by this chapter, or may refuse to renew any license, and may revoke or suspend any license when,…
- § 12709 (a) All license fees collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund to be expended by the department for…
- § 12710 A weighmaster may employ or designate any person to act for the weighmaster as a deputy weighmaster and shall be responsible for all acts performed by that…
- § 12710.5 (a) At any time during the license year, any weighmaster may replace deputies without payment of additional fees by forwarding to the department the name of…
- § 12711 A weighmaster shall issue a weighmaster certificate whenever payment for the commodity or service represented is dependent on a written or printed weight,…
- § 12712 (a) A weighmaster certificate may be signed and issued by a weighmaster other than the weighmaster actually determining the weight, measure, or count of any…
- § 12713 (a) A weighmaster is responsible for ensuring that the weighmaster certificates issued by him or her, or a deputy acting for him or her, are complete and…
- § 12714 (a) There shall appear in an appropriate and conspicuous place on each certificate, and all copies thereof, the following legend: WEIGHMASTER CERTIFICATE THIS…
- § 12714.5 All information contained on the certificate shall be clear and legible. Each certificate shall be numbered consecutively.
- § 12715 Each certificate shall provide for the following information as applicable to the transaction: (a) The date on which the weight, measure, or count was…
- § 12716 All weighmasters shall keep and preserve, as records, for a period of four years, all copies of voided certificates, records, and worksheets required by this…
- § 12716.5 A certificate on which a weight, measure, or count error is discovered after issuance shall be corrected by issuing a correction certificate to all parties who…
- § 12717 Any weighing, measuring, or counting instrument or device, as defined in Section 12500, which is used by a weighmaster and for which specifications and…
- § 12718 Any person who does any of the following acts is guilty of a misdemeanor: (a) Requests any person to weigh, measure, or count any commodity falsely or…
- § 12718.5 Subdivision (g) of Section 12718 does not apply to any of the following: (a) Persons engaged in the business of printing, distributing, or selling weighmaster…
- § 12719 When the weight or measure of a vehicle, container, or pallet and its net contents has been recorded on a weighmaster certificate, it is unlawful for any…
- § 12720 When the tare weight of a vehicle or the weight of the vehicle and its contents have been recorded on a weighmaster certificate, it is unlawful for any person…
- § 12721 Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the vehicle, container, pallet, or commodity for which the weight, measure, or count is being certified shall…
- § 12722 (a) In accordance with this chapter and regulations adopted by the secretary, any weighmaster may use a tare weight for a vehicle, container, or pallet that…
- § 12723 The secretary shall adopt regulations for the establishment of vehicle, container, and pallet tares, including, but not limited to, the adoption of conditions…
- § 12724 (a) Except as provided in this section, a weighmaster weighing a vehicle for certification shall determine both gross and tare weights with all persons off the…
- § 12725 A weighmaster shall not certify to the gross weight of a vehicle if all of the following conditions prevail: (a) The scale is located at the site where the…
- § 12726 (a) If doubt or differences arise as to the accuracy of the weight, measure, or count of any amount or part of any commodity, unladen vehicle, or container for…
- § 12727 The secretary may, at any time, require a vehicle to proceed to the nearest vehicle scale for the purpose of weight verification.
- § 12728 (a) No weighmaster shall weigh a vehicle, or combination of vehicles, for certification, when part of the vehicle, or connected combination, is not resting on…
- § 12729 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) Violations of Sections…
- § 12730 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 12701 or this section, farm products sold by bulk weight or delivered to a processing or…
- § 12731 (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, where livestock is sold on the basis of weight at a public sales yard, or by or at any livestock market,…
- § 12732 In addition to the certificate requirements of Sections 12714, 12714.5, and 12715, all of the following information shall appear on weighmaster certificates…
- § 12733 In all cases where scrap metal and salvage materials are purchased or sold by dealers, brokers, or commission merchants on the basis of weight or measure, the…
- § 12734 Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the weight of squid, Pacific whiting, or anchovy, certified pursuant to this chapter, may be determined…
- § 12735 The secretary may adopt any rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary for the purpose of carrying out this chapter. Adoption of these rules and…
- § 12737 (a) Any weighmaster weighing any vehicle moving construction materials, including, but not limited to, earth, stone, rock, sand, gravel, limestone, ready mixed…