California CodesBusiness and Professions Code - BPCDivision 5 — Weights and MeasuresChapter 7 — WeighmastersSection 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 incorrectly.
(b) Requests a false or incorrect weighmaster certificate.
(c) Furnishes or gives false information to a weighmaster for use in the completion of a weighmaster certificate.
(d) Knowingly presents for payment a false weighmaster certificate.
(e) Knowingly issues a weighmaster certificate giving thereon a false weight, measure, or count.
(f) Alters a weighmaster certificate resulting in giving thereon a false weight, measure, or count.
(g) Possesses unfilled or unused weighmaster certificate forms, if he or she is not a weighmaster.
(h) Issues a weighmaster certificate that contains alterations or omissions of gross or tare weights, net only weights, or measurements.
Notes
Sets misdemeanor liability for requesting false weighing or a false certificate, giving false certificate information, knowingly presenting or issuing a false certificate, altering a certificate to show a false quantity, possessing unused certificate forms without being a weighmaster, or issuing a certificate with specified gross, tare, net-only, or measurement alterations or omissions.
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