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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 7, Page 69, Ordinance Number 24O Ordinance No.�`/ WHEM S, the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentuchy, by an ..ct of said General .ssembly passed d.urin�- the Session of 1914, re- pealed an Act of the General assembly of the State of Kentucky entitled ".111 c CT 7,1'I4TIIIG TO LEIGHTS, EE -SURFS _'IND B.:I( NCES, _SID THE :-PPOINT- IMIdT OF idl INSPECTOR OF 7.EIGHTS ,I1D 12iiSURES FOR COUIITIES", approved by the Governor Liarch 23, 1910, and appearing as Chapter 90 of the rets of the General 1ssembly of the State of Kentuc3W for 1910; and V.hEREAS, it is deemed expedient that the City of Paducah should have a ';eights and Measures Inspector fox the City of Paducah, there- . - fore, BE IT ORDAIIIED BY THE BOARD OF COi�dISSIOIIERS OF THE CITY OF PADUC di, KEIITUCKY: Section 1. That the Commissioners of the City of Paducah shall be and they are hereby emroviered to employ a Cei?hts and Lleasures Irspecto-r for the City of Paducah. Section 2. That it shall be the duty of said V,eights and i.:easures In- spector to test, at least once a year, all weights, measures, balances, scales, steel yards or beams, in the City of Paducah, ovined or used by any person, firm, company or corporation engaged 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 - also horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, or other live steel_, :,nd -:;ho are using or shall use said sc>.Lles, weilghts or measures for ddtermining the weaght ofany of said articles in either selling; or buying same. Said Ir_spector shall also test all public scales where commodities of live stock are weighed, and for which fees are charged. Section 3. Said Inspector shall receive as compensation_ the following fees: - .nor testing each platform scale, ordinarily used in weighing live stock, coal, grain, provender, wagons and heavy axticles of life character ti?1.50 (except the City Scales, owned and operated by the City of Paducah, which shall be tested in accordance with this Ordinance, but for ti:hich no fee may be charged); for testing each steel yard, balance, beam, or any other scales ......ti}0.25, and for testing each weight and measure ......N0.05; said fees to be paid by the oviner, operator or person in possession of said scales, weights and measures. Section 4. The Inspector, after mah inv; any of the tests provided for herein, shall deliver to the omen or operator of said scales, weights, measures and balances so tested, a Certificate - setting forth the No. ' // Ordinance No. articles tested, the result and date of the test, - and the Inspector shall keep a complete record of all tests made, and on the first L?onday in each month shall file in the Clerk's office of the County Court a • statement over his signature, showing the tests, if any, made by him during the previous month. Section 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 or defrauded by the use of any scales, balances or measures, within thirty 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. If same are inac- curate in any respect, the owner, operator, or person in charge of the scales, weight's or measures complained of, shall pay the fees o -f the inspection; in addition to other penalties prescribed by law. In the event that said scales, weights or measures complained of are not found to be inaccurate, the complainer shall pay the fee for testing, in accordance with this ordinance, The Inspector shall have the right to make .a test at any time, whether complaint is made or not, but there shall be no fees charged for such additional in- spection, and only one fee shall be charged for each inspection per ,year of the same scales, except where complaint is made, as herein- before provided. Section 6. The standard of Eeasures under this Ordinance for berries, fruits and vegetables shall be si_a y -seven and trio -tenths (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 sac,.e shall be stamped upon such container. Section 7. luny person who shall buy or sell by any weight, balance, scales or measures that do not correspond to or agree with the weights, measures and balances approved and provided for by the Weights and 1,:easures Inspector, or shall use or give any false weights or measures, or shall keep any false weights, measures, scales Or balances on hand for the'purpose of buying or selling therewith, or shall sell any article by any i,eight or 1,7easure in violation of this Ordinance, shall be fined in any sum not less than five (N5.00) dollars nor more than fifty (:;50.00) dollars for each offense, or for a, li'•:e sum for each and every month he continues to ;:eep the false weights, measures, scales, or balances on hand, or continues to sell by any such false Weight or 1, ensure. Any person who shall .refuse to permit the Inspector to make a test of weights, measures, scales or balances, owned or operated by him, or under his control, or shall prevent or interfere with the Ordinance No..--- Inspector o..__ Inspector in so doing, or shall refuse to pay the fees for testing, after same has been made, shall be fined in each offense not less than five (tir5.00) dollars nor more than fifty (y50.00) dollars, and each and every day the said Inspector is so prevented from making the test provided for in this Ordinance shall constitute a separate offense. ction 8. This Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage. RLSSED BY THE BOi.RD OF 001:11ISSIOITERS LARCH 22, 1915. RECORDED BY LaURICE I:clidTYRE, CITY CLERK, 2, :RCH 23, 1915.