When doubt or differences arise as to the correctness of the net or gross weight or measure of any amount or part of any commodity for which a State certificate of weights and measures has been issued by a public weighmaster, the owner, agent, or consignee may, upon complaint to the Commissioner of Agriculture, have the amount or part thereof reweighed by the Department of Agriculture or a public weighmaster designated by it, upon depositing a sufficient sum of money to defray the actual cost of reweighing with the Commissioner of Agriculture or his representative. If, on reweighing, a difference from the original certified weight is discovered as the result of fraud, carelessness, or faulty apparatus, the cost of reweighing shall be borne by the public weighmaster responsible for the issuance of the erroneous certificate.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-184; 1967 (55) 512.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 11 - Public Weighmasters
Section 39-11-10. Administration of chapter.
Section 39-11-20. "Public weighmaster" defined.
Section 39-11-30. Registration of weighmasters.
Section 39-11-60. Length of registration.
Section 39-11-80. Refusal or revocation of license.
Section 39-11-90. Limited licenses for public officers and employees.
Section 39-11-100. Public weighmaster stamp.
Section 39-11-110. Issuance of certificates by weighmasters; records.
Section 39-11-120. Contents of certificates; penalty for alterations.
Section 39-11-130. Compelling return of state stamp upon violation of chapter.
Section 39-11-140. Certain acts declared misdemeanors.
Section 39-11-160. Net weight and actual weight.
Section 39-11-180. Weighing leaf tobacco.
Section 39-11-200. Rules and regulations.