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43 entriesSection 12700Defines a weighmaster as any person who, for hire or otherwise, weighs, measures, or counts a commodity and issues a statement or…Section 12700.5Exempts a weighmaster from any requirement to provide weighing services to the general public. It also allows each weighmaster to decide whether…Section 12701Exempts specified persons from the definition of weighmaster, including qualifying retailers, certain agricultural producers, common carriers with household shipments under 1,000 pounds,…Section 12702Defines “weighmaster,” when used without qualification, to include a deputy weighmaster. References to an unqualified weighmaster therefore encompass both the weighmaster and…Section 12703Prohibits a person, except under the cited exception, from performing acts defined as weighmaster activities without a weighmaster license and payment of…Section 12703.1Requires recycler or junk-dealer weighmaster applicants to provide specified licensing, stormwater, equipment, theft-alert, and deputy information; the department must investigate new applications…Section 12704Sets annual weighmaster fees at $75 for a fixed location, $30 per additional fixed location, $200 for nonfixed operations, and $20 per…Section 12705Requires a newly constituted legal entity to obtain its own weighmaster license before operating whenever the legal entity of an existing licensed…Section 12706Allows the secretary to assign or reassign weighmaster license expiration dates and establish an initial license year lasting from one through 11…Section 12707Requires annual weighmaster-license renewal by the first day of the first month of the license year with application and fee, while mailed…Section 12708Allows the secretary, after the cited administrative hearing, to refuse an initial or renewed weighmaster license or to suspend or revoke one…Section 12709Requires all license fees collected under the chapter to be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund and used by…Section 12710Allows a weighmaster to employ or designate any person to act on the weighmaster’s behalf as a deputy weighmaster. The weighmaster remains…Section 12710.5Allows a weighmaster during the license year to replace deputies without additional fees by reporting both names to the department, and to…Section 12711Requires a weighmaster to issue a weighmaster certificate whenever payment for the represented commodity or service depends on a written or printed…Section 12712Allows a weighmaster to issue a certificate based on another weighmaster’s determination when both are on the same principal license and the…Section 12713Requires a weighmaster to ensure certificates issued personally or by a deputy are complete with all applicable information required by the cited…Section 12714Requires every weighmaster certificate and copy to display the prescribed conspicuous legend certifying that the commodity was weighed, measured, or counted by…Section 12714.5Requires all information on every weighmaster certificate to be clear and legible and requires each certificate to be numbered consecutively. The certificate…Section 12715Requires each weighmaster certificate to state applicable transaction details, including date and place, the responsible weighmaster’s signature or permitted electronic name, commodity…Section 12716Requires every weighmaster to keep and preserve for four years all copies of voided certificates, required records and worksheets, and true copies…Section 12716.5Requires correction of a weighmaster certificate when a weight, measure, or count error is discovered after issuance by issuing a correction certificate…Section 12717Requires any weighing, measuring, or counting instrument or device used by a weighmaster, when specifications and tolerances for that device have been…Section 12718Sets misdemeanor liability for requesting false weighing or a false certificate, giving false certificate information, knowingly presenting or issuing a false certificate,…Section 12718.5Exempts specified persons from the prohibition on nonweighmasters possessing unfilled or unused weighmaster certificate forms. The exemption covers businesses printing, distributing, or…Section 12719Prohibits removing any part of, or adding anything to, the net contents of a vehicle, container, or pallet after its weight or…Section 12720Prohibits altering a vehicle’s tare weight after a weighmaster certificate records the tare weight or the combined weight of vehicle and contents…Section 12721Requires, except where the chapter provides otherwise, the vehicle, container, pallet, or commodity whose weight, measure, or count is being certified to…Section 12722Allows a weighmaster to use a previously determined tare for a vehicle, container, or pallet under the chapter and regulations, with the…Section 12723Requires the secretary to adopt regulations governing establishment of vehicle, container, and pallet tare weights. The regulations must address matters including conditions…Section 12724Requires a weighmaster certifying a vehicle to determine gross and tare weights with all persons off the scale and vehicle unless both…Section 12725Prohibits a weighmaster from certifying a vehicle’s gross weight when the scale is at the loading site, the vehicle is weighed before…Section 12726Allows a person with a financial interest to complain and deposit sufficient funds for department or designated-weighmaster verification of a certified commodity,…Section 12727Allows the secretary, at any time, to direct a vehicle to proceed to the nearest vehicle scale for weight verification. The authority…Section 12728Prohibits a weighmaster from certifying a vehicle unless the entire vehicle or connected combination rests on the scale; combinations that cannot fit…Section 12729Sets misdemeanor liability as the chapter's default, but makes certificate violations infractions punishable by up to $100 for a first conviction, $200…Section 12730Requires farm products sold by bulk weight or delivered for processing or sale to be weighed by a weighmaster with certificates, and…Section 12731Requires livestock sold by weight at a public sales yard or by or at a livestock market, market agency, or dealer subject…Section 12732Requires weighmaster certificates issued after load adjustments when weights are determined away from the loading site to include, beyond other certificate requirements,…Section 12733Requires scrap metal and salvage bought or sold by dealers, brokers, or commission merchants on a weight-or-measure basis to have quantity determined…Section 12734Allows the certified weight of squid, Pacific whiting, or anchovy to be determined by computation from volumetric measurements of containers under regulations…Section 12735Allows the secretary to adopt rules and regulations reasonably necessary to carry out the chapter and requires those rules and regulations to…Section 12737Allows a weighmaster handling vehicles carrying construction materials to use an approved unattended weighing system for consenting buyers. Sets annual fees of…