Earlier editions: 2020-112018-11
DIVISION 5. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 12001-13800›CHAPTER 7. Weighmasters 12700-12737
§ 12718
California Business and Professions Code · 2026 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California
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.
(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 297, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1993.)
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