Sec. 11. No person, firm, limited liability company, or corporation shall use or retain in the person's, firm's, company's, or corporation's possession any false scales, weights, or measures or measuring device or any weight or measure or weighing or measuring device in the buying or selling of any commodity or thing or in calculating or measuring service, or dispose of any condemned scales, weights, measures, or weighing or measuring device, except in accordance with such rules, specifications, and tolerances as may be adopted by the division of weights and measures of the state department of health as provided in section 2 of this chapter, or remove any tag, stamp, or mark placed thereon by the inspector; and no person, firm, limited liability company, or corporation shall sell or offer or expose for sale or deliver less than the quantity the person, firm, limited liability company, or corporation represents, or sell, offer for sale, or have in the person's, firm's, limited liability company's, or corporation's possession for the purpose of selling any false scales, weight, or measure, or any device or instrument to be used or calculated to falsify any weight or measure.
Formerly: Acts 1925, c.86, s.11. As amended by P.L.152-1986, SEC.88; P.L.2-1992, SEC.758; P.L.8-1993, SEC.366.
Structure Indiana Code
Article 6. Weights, Measures, and Labeling
Chapter 3. State and Local Weights and Measures Program
24-6-3-1. Weights and Measures Furnished by United States Government
24-6-3-2. Division of Weights and Measures; Powers and Duties
24-6-3-3. County Inspectors; Appointment; Compensation
24-6-3-4. City Inspectors; Appointment, Service and Removal
24-6-3-5. Powers and Duties of County and City Inspectors
24-6-3-6. Qualifications of Inspectors; Discharge and Removal
24-6-3-7. Inspection of Devices; Confirmation to Legal Standards; Tagging Nonconforming Devices
24-6-3-8. Seizure of Nonconforming Devices
24-6-3-9. Entry Without Warrant; Prosecution; Hindrance of Inspector
24-6-3-10. Commodity Sold by Numerical Count; Weight per Ton
24-6-3-10.5. Items That May Be Sold as Unweighed, Uncounted Units
24-6-3-11. Use or Retention of False Scales; Removal of Tag
24-6-3-13. Weighmaster; Appointment; Powers and Duties
24-6-3-16. Standards for Weights and Measures; Emergency Rule Adoption; Federal Standards