The director shall, from time to time, weigh or measure and inspect packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale, sold, or in the process of delivery, to determine whether the same contain the amounts represented and whether they be kept, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold, in accordance with law; and when such packages or amounts of commodities are found not to contain the amounts represented, or are found to be kept, offered, or exposed for sale in violation of law, the director may order them off sale and may so mark or tag them as to show them to be illegal. In carrying out the provisions of this section, the director may employ recognized sampling procedures under which the compliance of a given lot of packages will be determined on the basis of the result obtained on a sample selected from and representative of such lot. No person shall (1) sell or keep, offer, or expose for sale, in intrastate commerce, any package or amount of commodity that has been ordered off sale or marked or tagged as provided in this section unless and until such package or amount of commodity has been brought into full compliance with all legal requirements, or (2) dispose of any package or amount of commodity that has been ordered off sale or marked or tagged as provided in this section and that has not been brought into compliance with legal requirements, in any manner except with the specific approval of the director.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments
Chapter 27 - Weights and Measures
Article 1 - Weights and Measures Law of 1964
§ 75-27-5. Systems of weights and measures
§ 75-27-7. Definitions of special units of measure
§ 75-27-9. State standards of weight and measure
§ 75-27-11. Office and working standards and equipment
§ 75-27-13. State director, deputy director, and inspectors of weights and measures
§ 75-27-15. Bonds of deputy director and inspectors
§ 75-27-17. General powers and duties of director
§ 75-27-19. Specific powers and duties of directors; regulations
§ 75-27-21. Testing of standards at state-supported institutions
§ 75-27-27. Inspections of packages
§ 75-27-29. Stop-use, stop-removal, and removal orders
§ 75-27-31. Disposition of correct and incorrect apparatus
§ 75-27-33. Police powers; right to entry and stoppage
§ 75-27-35. Powers and duties of deputy director and inspector
§ 75-27-37. Duty of owners of incorrect apparatus
§ 75-27-39. Methods of sale of commodities; general
§ 75-27-43. Methods of sale of commodities; declaration of unit price on random packages
§ 75-27-45. Methods of sale of commodities; misleading packages
§ 75-27-47. Methods of sale of commodities; advertising packages for sale
§ 75-27-49. Sale by net weight
§ 75-27-51. Misrepresentation of price
§ 75-27-53. Construction of contracts
§ 75-27-55. Hindering or obstructing officer; penalties
§ 75-27-57. Impersonation of officer; penalties
§ 75-27-63. Presumptive evidence