Ord 134-35 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DELRAY
BEACH PRESCRIBING A STANDARD OF
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; PRESCRIBING
AND REGULATING THE SALE OF C~t~0D-
ITIES BY WEIGHTS AND h~EASURES AND
PRESCRIBING A PENALTY FOR THE SELL-
ING BY FALSE WEIGHTS OR N~EASURES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DELRAY
BEACH, FL0~IDA:
Section 1. Upon and after the passage 6f this ordinance
it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to use
any weights or measures yielding less weight, length or cubic
contents than those fixed by ~ection Z?81 of the Compiled General
Laws of the State of Florida for 19E?, and by the Statutes of
the United States of America. The standard of weights and measures
as set forth in said Section ~781 of the Laws of the State of
Florida shall be the standard of weights and measures throughout
the City of Delray Beach, Florida.
Section E. All contracts hereinafter made within the City
for work to be done, or anything to be sold or delivered by weight
or measure shall be taken and construed according to the standard
of weights and measures hereby adopted as the standard of this City.
Section ~. All merchants, commission merchants, grocers,
provision dealers, store-keepers and other persons before selling
or offering for sale any grain, flour, meat, grits, corn, wheat,
rye, oats, bran, beans, Irish potatoes, sweet potators or peanuts
already put up, bagged or placed in a sack, bag or barrel in
original packages, shall be marked, stamped or stenuiled upon
such sack, bag or barrel so sold or offered for sale with its
contents in figures the exact weight in pounds, avoirdupois
weight, of such bag, sack or barrel with its contents.
Section 4. Whoever knowingly sells by false weight or
measure, or whoever refuses to have his weights and measures
tested by the Chief of Police of the City, or whoever after his
weights and measures have been tested fails to make them conform
to the standard and keep them so conformed, shall be punishable
by imprisonment in the City Jail not exceeding ~ 6) days, or
be fined not exceeding the sum of $
Section §. No person shall knowingly sell by false weight
or measure within the City. All weights and measures used within
the City shall from time to time be tested by the Chief of Police
of the City, and whenever any of said weights or measures shall
be found not to conform with the standard, then the owner of said
weights or measures shall immediately bring said weights or
measures up to the standard and keep them to conform with the
standard.
Section 6. Whoever violates the provision of this ordinance
shall be punished by imprisonment in the City Jail not exceeding
~0 days,, or be fined not exceeding the sum of $ /~ co
of the City Council,
Delray Beach, Florida.
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