Sec. 126. City sealer—punishments prescribed for certain
offenses.
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 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 Superintendent 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
Superintendent 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
purchase, or 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 or more than two hundred dollars,
or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
