No person shall sell, offer for sale, keep, or expose for sale anywhere in the District of Columbia any commodity of any kind as a weight, measure, or numerical count greater than the actual or true weight, measure, or numerical count thereof, and no person shall take or attempt to take more than the actual and true weight, measure, or numerical count of any commodity, when, as buyer, he is permitted by the seller to determine the weight, measure, or numerical count thereof. No person shall charge or collect for any commodity or commodities a sum greater than the price or prices indicated or quoted at the time of sale. No person shall charge, collect, or accept any money for any commodity which he shall not have delivered or which he shall not have agreed to deliver. When a whole number or fraction, or both, are used in representing the price or quantity of any commodity, thing, or service offered or exposed for sale, such number or combination of numbers shall be of such size as to indicate clearly the price or quantity of such commodity, thing or service.
(Mar. 3, 1921, 41 Stat. 1219, ch. 118, § 7; Apr. 27, 1945, 59 Stat. 97, ch. 99, § 2.)
1981 Ed., § 10-108.
1973 Ed., § 10-107.
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 37 - Weights, Measures, Markets, and Vending
Chapter 2 - Weights, Measures, and Markets Generally
Subchapter I - Weights and Measures Generally
§ 37–201.02. Director to give bond and take oath
§ 37–201.04. Inspection required after repair; alteration of condemnation tag prohibited
§ 37–201.05. Obstruction of inspection prohibited
§ 37–201.06. Record of inspections
§ 37–201.07. False measure prohibited; sale of commodities
§ 37–201.08. Commodities sold by weight; “ton” defined
§ 37–201.11. Sale of coal, charcoal, or coke
§ 37–201.14. Sale of frozen and fluid dairy products
§ 37–201.16. Substitutes for dry measure prohibited
§ 37–201.16a. Quantity markings required for packages; exemption
§ 37–201.18. Standard liquid measures; automatic gasoline pumps
§ 37–201.18a. Gasoline and fuel pump octane measurement
§ 37–201.19. Sale of shucked oysters, fish, meat, butter, and cheese
§ 37–201.20. Automatic measuring pumps
§ 37–201.21. Sale of pro rata quantity
§ 37–201.22. Inspection of commodities by Director
§ 37–201.22a. Sale of food by false advertising
§ 37–201.23. Sale of measuring devices by Director prohibited
§ 37–201.24. Police power conferred upon Director; inspections without warrants
§ 37–201.25. Council may establish tolerances and specifications
§ 37–201.26. Weighmasters; public scales; fees. [Repealed]
§ 37–201.27. Powers and duties of Director conferred on assistants and inspectors
§ 37–201.28. Supervision of markets; investigations and reports
§ 37–201.29. “Mayor” and “Director” defined
§ 37–201.30. “Person” defined; meaning of singular words
§ 37–201.32. Penalties; conduct of prosecutions
§ 37–201.33. Registration and inspection fees for weighing and measuring devices