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Ordinance No. 80
pN ORDINaNCE PROVIDING FOR THE .sPPOINTMEIJT OF .Ci OFFIUER TO Bs
X1401714 -3 INSPECTOR OF 'i EIGHTS, 111EMRES Al;D BiLI,t,NCES, nJID DOG Ci,TCHER, II:
THE CITY OF PnfUCAH, KENTUCKY, AiID DEFIDIiiG HIS DUTIES A -,:D SAI,tRY.
BE IT ORDaI1TED BY 21IE BOARD OF COI.LISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KEIITUCKY:
Sec. 1. That the Board of Commissioners of the City of Padu-
cah, Kentucky, shall be, and they are hereby empowered to employ an
Inspector of Weights, I,ieasures and Balances, for the City of Paducah,
Kentucky, with the additional duties of Dog Catcher.
Sec. 2 Said Inspector of heights, I:ieasures and Balances, and
Dog Catcher shall be paid a salary of Seventy-five (975.00) Dollars per
month for his services by the City of Paducah, and shall be subject to
-removal at any time by the Board of Commissioners, with or viithout cause.
Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of said heights and Measures
Inspector to test, at least once a year, all weights, measures, balances
and scales, steel yards or beams, in the City of Paducah, owned or used by
any person, firm, company or corporation engaged in buying or selling
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merchandise, groceries, produce, poultry, grain, provender, meats, coal,
ice, feed stuffs, iron, rags, metal, junk, wares, wool, hides, leather, or
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any other article of trade or commerce. He shall also test all public
scales where any commodities or live stock are weighed and for which fees
are charged.
Sec. 4. Said Inspector, after making any of the tests provided
for herein shall deliver to the owner or operator of said scales, weights,
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measures and balances so tested a certificate setting forth the article
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so tested, the result and date of the test, and said Inspector shall keep
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a complete record of all tests made by him, and on the first i:_onday in each
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month shall file, in the office of the Commissioner of Public Finance, a
statement, over his signature, showing the tests made by him, if any,
during the previous month, together with the result thereof.
Sec. 5. Upon complaint of any person, made by affidavit, before
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the Board of Commissioners of the City of Paducah, stating that,he has
been cheated by the use of any scales, balances or measures within thirty
(30) days previous to said complaint, the Board of Commissioners shall
order the Inspector to immediately make a test of the scales, weights. or
measures complained of. Said Inspector shall, however, have the right to
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make a test at any time of any scales, weights, measures or balances used
as aforesaid, whether complaint has been made or not, and shall have the
right to change any certificate theretofore issued by him, to conform with
the last test made.
Sec. 6. he standard of measures under this ordinance for
berries, fruits and vegetables shall be 67.2 cubic inches for every
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container per quart, and should any container in which fruits, berries
or vegetables are offered for sale contain lest than 67.2 cubic inches
per quart, then same shall be stamped upon such container.
Sec. 7. Any person who shall buy or sell by any weights,
balances, scales or measures that do not correspond to or agree with
the weights, measures and balances approved and provided for by the
weights and measures Inspector, or sell, use or give any false weights
or measures, or shall keep any false weights, measures, scales or bal-
ances for the purpose of buying or selling therewith, or shall sell any
article by weights or measures/in violation of this ordinance shall be
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fined in any sum not less than five (9,5.00) nor more than fifty (9,50.00)
dollars for each offense- and said Inspector shall confiscate and
destroy any such weights, measures, scales or balances which have been
tested by him and shown by him to be short and not up to the standard
adopted by him and which are thereafter used or attempted to be used for
the purpose of giving any false weights or measures of any commodities
sold, weighed or measured by the owner or person in charge thereof.
Sec. 8. Any person who shall refuse to permit the Inspector to
make inspections of any weights, measures, scales or balances owned or
operated by him or under his control, or shall prevent or interefer
with the Inspector so doing, shall be fined, in each offense, not less
than Five (;"5.00) nor more than fifty (.,;50.00) dollars, and each and
every day that said Inspector is so prevented from making tests so pro-
vided for in this ordinance shall constitute a separate offense.
Sec. 9. Said Inspector is hereby empowered to enter any estab-
lishment, building or enclosure, or go upon the premises of any person,
firm, company or corporation in the City of Paducah for the purpose of
inspecting any weights, measures, balances or scales used therein or
thereon, at any time, and it shall be unlawful for Ely person to refuse
to permit said Inspector to enter therein or thereon for such purposes.
Seo. 10. Said Inspector shall have the power to stop any person,
conveying -by vehicle of any character- any article of merchandise, for
the purpose of inspecting the dimensions or the weight of said vehicle,
or to weigh or inspect any article of merchandise or container in such
vehicle, or to ascertain whether they comply with the terms and condi-
tions of this ordinance, and shall have the right to require said vehicle
or the contents thereof to be weighed on the City Scales, or airy other
scales in the City of Paducah which have been inspected by szd dInspector.
Sec. 11. .any person, firm, company or corporation violating any
of the provisions of this ordinance or refusing to comply with any of
the orders of the Inspector under the terr-s of this ordinance, except as.
Otherwise herein provided, shall be fined not less th-an five (.,x5.00) nor
more than fifty (y50.00) dollars for each offense.
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Sec. 12. Said officer herein appointed shall, in addition to his
duties hereinabove defined, be required and authorized to take up and
catch any and all unlicensed dogs found running at large vii thin the city
limits of the City of Paducah, and take such dogs to the pen or pound
provided by the City for the incarceration of such dogs until they can be
disposed of by said City.
Sec. 13. till ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed, and this Ordinance shall take effect from and after
its adoption.
ed by the Board of Commissioners HovefrrbC.X,?.7, 1916.
o`I�ecorded by L. Richard ?'ille-r, C1erk,Idovember 27, 1916.