When a dealer or dealers in coal in cities or towns where public sales are kept may be requested by a person or persons buying as much as 500 pounds of coal at any one time to weigh such coal upon the public scales, such dealer or dealers shall do so. The person or persons buying the coal shall pay the fee for weighing the same if such is of proper weight; otherwise, such fee shall be paid by the dealer. Any dealer refusing to weigh or to have weighed such coal as required in this section or to pay such fee for weighing the same as required by this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.
Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.
Article 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations.
Section 8-16-90 - Prohibited Acts Generally.
Section 8-16-91 - Net Weight of Commodity Basis for Sales by Weight.
Section 8-16-93 - Net Quantities of Contents of Packages to Be Marked on Outside.
Section 8-16-97 - Milk and Cream Bottles and Containers - Duties of Sealers.
Section 8-16-99 - Coal, Coke, or Charcoal - Delivery Tickets.
Section 8-16-102 - Cornmeal and Grits to Be Sold in Five to 200 Pound Packages; Exceptions.
Section 8-16-103 - Flour to Be Sold in Packages of Five to 200 Pounds; Exceptions.
Section 8-16-104 - Sale of Ice Regulated.
Section 8-16-105 - Sale of Oil at Retail Regulated.
Section 8-16-107 - Operating Weighing or Measuring Device Other Than as Intended.