Vermont Statutes
Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures
§ 2640. Police powers; right of entry and stoppage

§ 2640. Police powers; right of entry and stoppage
With respect to the enforcement of this chapter and any other laws dealing with weights and measures that he or she is, or may be, empowered to enforce, the Secretary is vested with full police powers, and may arrest, without formal warrant, any violator of those laws, and may seize for use as evidence, without formal warrant, incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts of packages of commodity found to be used, retained, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold, in violation of the law. In the performance of his or her official duties, the Secretary may enter and go into or upon, without formal warrant, any structure or premises, and may stop any person whatsoever and require him or her to proceed, with or without any vehicle of which he or she may be in charge, to some place that the Secretary may specify. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 15, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)

Structure Vermont Statutes

Vermont Statutes

Title 9 - Commerce and Trade

Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures

§ 2631. Regulation of weights and measures

§ 2632. General powers and duties of Secretary

§ 2633. Specific powers and duties of Secretary; regulations

§ 2634. Testing at State-supported institutions

§ 2635. General testing

§ 2636. Investigations

§ 2637. Inspection of packages

§ 2638. Stop-use, stop-removal, and removal orders

§ 2639. Disposition of correct and incorrect apparatus

§ 2640. Police powers; right of entry and stoppage

§ 2641. Powers and duties of inspector

§ 2642. Duty of owners of incorrect apparatus

§ 2643. Licenses; inspections; penalties

§ 2651. Definitions

§ 2652. Systems of weights and measures

§ 2653. State standards of weight and measure

§ 2654. Field standards and equipment

§ 2655. Construction of contracts

§ 2671. Method of sale of commodities; general

§ 2672. Packages, declarations of quantity and origin; variations; exemptions

§ 2673. Declarations of unit price on random packages

§ 2674. Misleading packages

§ 2675. Advertising packages for sale

§ 2676. Sale by net weight

§ 2677. Misrepresentation of price

§ 2691. Meat, poultry, and seafood

§ 2692. Bulk milk tanks

§ 2693. Log measure—The Vermont rule

§ 2695. Fluid dairy products

§ 2696. Flour, corn meal, and hominy grits

§ 2697. Liquid fuels

§ 2697a. Motor fuel octane content and quality

§ 2698. Textile products

§ 2699. Berries and small fruits

§ 2700. Coal, coke, and charcoal

§ 2701. Ice

§ 2721. Licensed public weighmaster—license

§ 2722. Optional licensing

§ 2723. Suspension and revocation of license

§ 2724. Prohibited acts

§ 2725. Dealers and service persons of weighing and measuring devices; registration certificate; hand seal

§ 2726. Suspension or revocation of certificate

§ 2727. Placed in service report

§ 2728. Disposition of condemned devices

§ 2729. Calibration of testing equipment; certificate

§ 2730. Licensing for operation of weighing and measuring devices

§ 2741. Weight certificate; required entries

§ 2742. Execution; requirements

§ 2743. Scale used; type; test

§ 2744. Capacity; platform size; one-draft weighing

§ 2745. Copies of weight certificates

§ 2746. Bulk delivery

§ 2747. Reciprocal acceptance of weight certificates

§ 2761. Offenses and penalties

§ 2762. Hindering or obstructing officer

§ 2763. Impersonation of officer

§ 2764. Incorrect weight certificates

§ 2765. Malfeasance

§ 2766. Replacement of security seal; improper handling of weighing or measuring device

§ 2767. Injunction

§ 2768. Validity of prosecutions

§ 2769. Presumptive evidence

§ 2770. Administrative penalties; license suspension

§ 2771. Deceptive acts or practices