Sec. 9. (a) The division of weights and measures, the division's agents, deputies, or inspectors, and the county and city inspectors of weights and measures may go into or upon without formal warrant any stand, place, building or premises, or may stop any vender, peddler, junk dealer, coal wagon, ice wagon, or any dealer, for the purpose of making the proper test and for the purpose of ascertaining the proper weights and measures of all commodities found therein or thereon. Whenever the division, the division's agents, deputies, or inspectors, or the county and city inspectors of weights and measures find a violation of law relating to weights and measures, the individual shall cause the violator to be prosecuted.
(b) No person may molest, hinder or obstruct in any way the division of weights and measures, the division's agents, deputies, or inspectors, or any county or city inspector of weights and measures in the performance of official duties.
Formerly: Acts 1925, c.86, s.9. As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.2419; P.L.2-1992, SEC.757.
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