Sec. 36-9. Miscellaneous offenses in regard to weights and
measures.[424]
No person, by himself or by his servant or agent, or as the
servant or agent of another person, shall:
(a) Use or have in possession for the purpose of using for
any commercial purpose, sell, offer or expose for sale or hire
or have in possession for the purpose of selling or hiring, an
incorrect weight or measure or any device or instrument used
to or calculated to falsify any weight or measure.
(b) Use or have in possession for the purpose of current
use for any commercial purpose specified in section 3-708.10
of the Code of Virginia a weight or measure that does not
bear a seal or mark such as is specified in section 36-5 or in
section 3-708.16 of the Code of Virginia unless such weight
or measure has been exempted from testing by the provisions
of section 3-708.10 of the Code of Virginia or by a regulation
of the state board of agriculture and immigration.
(c) Dispose of any rejected or condemned weight or measure
in a manner contrary to law or regulation.
(d) Remove from any weights or measures, contrary to law
or regulation, any tag, seal or mark placed there by the appropriate
authority.
(e) Sell or offer or expose for sale less than the quantity
he represents of any commodity, thing or service.
(f) Take more than the quantity he represents of any commodity,
thing or service when, as buyer, he furnishes the
weights or measures by means of which the amount of the
commodity, thing or service is determined.
(g) Keep for the purpose of sale, advertise, or offer or
expose for sale or sell any commodity, thing or service in a
condition or manner contrary to law or regulation.
(h) Use in retail trade, except in the preparation of packages
put up in advance of sale and of medical prescriptions,
a weight or measure that is not so positioned that its indications
may be accurately read and the weighing or measuring
operation observed from some position which may be reasonably
assumed by a customer.
