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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 7, Page 89, Ordinance Number 32Ordinance No.� ,II ORDIN; NCE PROVIDING FOR THE : 17POINT1.11M OF :dT INSPECTOR OF V;ZIGHTS', 1JEaSURES AND BAL-,LACES IN THE CITY OF Pf,DUC.;H, KENTUCKY, AND DEFINING HIS DUTIES idlD SjLARY. Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of the City. of Paducah, Kentucky: Sec. 1. That the Board of Commissioners of the City of Paducah, Kentucky, shall be, and they are hereby empowered to employ an Inspector of weights and measures for the City of Paducah. Sec. 2. Said Inspector of weights .a'id measures shall be paid a salary of Seventy-five (ti'y75.00) Dollars per month for his services by the City of Paducz_h and shall be subject to removal at any time by thq Board of Commissioners with or without cause. Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of said weights and measures Inspector to test, at least once a year, all weights, measures, balances and sc.,:les, steel yards or beams in the City of Paducah orned or used by any person, firm, company or corporation enga=ged in buying or selling merchandise, groceries, produce, poultry, grain, provender, meats, coal, ice, feed stuffs, iron, rags, metal, junk, wares, wool, hides, leather or any other article of trade or commerce. He shall also test all public scales where any commodities or live stock are weighea 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, measures and balances so tested a certificate setting forth the article so tested and result and date of the test amd said inspector shall keep a complete record of all tests made by him and on the first is=onday in each month shall file in the office of the Commissioner of Public Finance s statement, over his signature, showing the tests made by him, if.any, during the previous month to-gether with the result thereof. Sec. 5. Upon complaint of any person, made by affidavit, before the Board of Commissioners of the City of Paducah, stating that he has been cheated by the use of any so,,)les, balances or measures within thirty days previous to said complaint, the Board of Commission- ers 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 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, there- tofore issued by him, to conform with the last test made. Sec. 6. The standard of measures under this ordinance for berries, fruits and vegetables shall be 67.2 cubic inches for every container per quart and should any container in which fruits, berries or vegetables are offered for sale contain less than 67.2 cubic inches per quart, then same shall be stamped upon such con- tainer. Sec. 7. Any person who shall buy or sell by any weights, balances, scales or measures that does not correspond to, or agree with the weights, measures and balances approved End 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 balances for the purpose of buying or selling therewith, or shall sell any article by weights or measures in violation of this ordinance shall be fined in any sum not less than '$ 5.00 nor more than � 50.00 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. Ordinance No. Sec. B. Sec. B. Any person who ahtll 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 interfere with the inspector so .lining shall be fined, in each offense, not less than 0 5.00 nor more than $'50.00 and each and every day that said Inspector is so prevented from making tests so provided for in this ordinance shall constitute a sepe- rate offense. Sec. 9. Said Inspector is hereby empowered to enter any establishment, 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 un- lawful for any person to refuse to permit said inspector to enter thereon or therein for such purposes. Sec. 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 -conditions of this ordinance, and shall have the right to require said vehicle or the contents thereof to be weighed on the City Scales or any other scales in the City of Paducah which have been inspected by said'Inspector. 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 terms of this ordinance, except as others^ise*herein provided, shall be fined not less than r? 5.00 nor more than 4 50.00 for each offense. Sec. 12. This ordinance shall take effect from and after its adoption. Recorded by Maurice 3ScIntyre, City Clerk, 6/22/15.