Sec. 9. Offenses in regard to weights and measures.
Any person who, by himself or by his servant or agent, or as
the servant or agent of another person, shall offer or expose for
sale, sell, use in the buying or selling of any commodity or thing
or for hire or award, or in the computation of any charge for services
rendered on the basis of weight or measure, or in the determination
of weight or measure when a charge is made for such determination
or retain in his possession a false weight or measure
or weighing or measuring device or any weight or measure or
weighing or measuring device, which has not been sealed by the
state commissioner or by a sealer or deputy sealer of weights and
measures within one year, or shall dispose of any condemned
weight, measure or weighing or measuring device contrary to law,
or remove any tag placed thereon by the state commissioner or by
a sealer of weights and measures; or who shall sell or offer or expose
for sale less than the quantity he represents, or shall take or
attempt to take more than the quantity he represents when, as the
buyer, he furnishes the weight, measure or weighing or measuring
device by means of which the amount of commodity is determined;
or who shall keep for the purpose of sale, offer or expose for sale,
or sell any commodity in a manner contrary to law; or who shall
violate any provision of this chapter for which a specific penalty
has not been provided; or who shall sell or offer for sale, or use or
have in his possession for the purpose of selling or using any device
or instrument to be used to or calculated to falsify any weight
or measure shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished
by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars,
or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or by
both such fine and imprisonment. (Id., § 126.)
For similar state law, see § 1485(23) of Michie's Virginia Code of
1942.
