Editor's Note: For State Statute setting forth standards,
see N.J.S. 51:1-1 et seq.
[R.O. 1966 § 26:2-1]
The standard of weights and measures of the State deposited
in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton shall be the standard
of weights and measures of the City.
[R.O. 1966 § 26:2-2]
The standard bushel shall contain 2150.42 cubic inches. Such
capacity shall apply to all articles usually sold by the bushel and
not weighed.
[R.O. 1966 § 26:2-3]
a.
All persons using weights and measures, scale beams, patent balances,
steel yards or any other instrument in weighing or measuring any article
intended to be purchased or sold, or scales used for weighing work
for employees in factories in the City, shall cause such instruments
to be sealed and marked by the Manager, Division of Environmental
Health or an Assistant Manager, unless such instrument has been previously
so tested, sealed and marked.
b.
It shall be unlawful for any person to use any weight, measure, scale
beam, patent balance, steel yard or any other instrument in weighing
or measuring any commodity, article or thing intended to be purchased
or sold or any instrument used for weighing or measuring work for
employees in factories unless such instrument shall have been tested,
sealed and marked by the Manager, Division of Environmental Health
or by an Assistant Manager.
[R.O. 1966 § 26:2-4]
a.
It shall be unlawful for any person within the City to sell, or offer
for sale, or give any weight, measure, scale beam, patent balance,
steel yard or other instrument, intended for use in weighing or measuring,
unless the same shall have been tested, sealed and marked by the Manager,
Division of Environmental Health or by an Assistant Manager of the
City.
[R.O. 1966 § 26:2-5]
a.
All weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances, steel yards
and other instruments for weighing, to be sealed and adjusted by the
City, shall be made to conform to the standards of the City and shall
be marked by him/her with the initial of his/her name and the year
in which the same shall be sealed and marked; provided, however, that
if the Manager cannot seal any such instrument in the manner hereinbefore
provided, such may be marked with a stencil or by other suitable means,
so as to show that it has been inspected. The Manager shall in no
case seal or mark as correct any weights, measures, scale beams, patent
balances, steel yards or other instruments for weighing which do not
conform to the City standards.
b.
If, upon inspection, any weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances,
steel yards or other instruments for weighing shall be found not to
conform to the City standards and such instruments can be readily
adjusted by such means as the Manager has at hand, he/she may adjust
and seal them. But if they cannot be readily adjusted the City Manager
shall affix to such weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances,
steel yards or other instruments for weighing, a notice forbidding
their use until he/she is satisfied that they have been so adjusted
as to conform to the standards. It shall be unlawful for any person
to remove such notice without the consent of the officer affixing
the same.
[R.O. 1966 § 26:2-6]
Any person who shall use in the City in weighing or measuring as aforesaid any weight, measure, scale beam, patent balance, steel yard or other instrument which shall not conform to such standard or shall use in weighing as aforesaid any scale beam, patent balance, steel yard or other instrument which shall be out of order or incorrect, or which shall not balance, shall be punished for every such offense, as provided in Section 31:1-12 of this Title.
[R.O. 1966 § 26:2-7]
a.
All weights, measures, scale beams, patent balances, steel yards
or other instruments used in weighing or measuring any article intended
for purchase or sale within the City, which are incorrect and which
cannot be made to conform to the standard, shall be stamped "condemned"
by the City Manager of Environmental Health and shall not thereafter
be used by any person for the purpose of weighing or measuring any
goods or merchandise.
b.
It shall be unlawful for any person to alter or cause to be altered
any instrument intended to be used for weighing and measuring so that
the same does not conform to the standard. Nor shall any such altered
instrument be used within the City for weighing or measuring any article
or thing whatsoever.
[R.O. 1966 § 26:2-8]
a.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale within
the City any commodity, goods or merchandise at or for a greater weight
or measure than the true measure or weight, thereof.
b.
All ice, meats, poultry, butter, butter in prints, provisions and
all other commodities and articles of merchandise (except vegetables
sold by the head or bunch) shall be weighed by scales or balances,
duly tested, sealed and marked by the Manager, Division of Environmental
Health.
