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28 of 1912 - Amending Section. 582-596, Weights and Measures. / ROLL CALL r .t Salt-Lake City, Utah, `"1-`o-....I91. VOTING_-- Y. No 'I move that G'`c . 1"�' �`st-t--A s Keyser - _. Korns ... � ... vie Lawrence a( (1)a.„,Morris 1 .... ...... " Mr.Chairman ...._...._ _ . I RESULT 5-. * I • 4 I ORDINANCE . An ordinance amending and re-enacting 3eotionsbo2,,of the Re- vised Ordinances of Salt Lake City of 1903, relating to weights an. measures to be sealed and marked, and amending Chapter XLV of said Revised Ordinances of 1903, relating to Sealer of Weights and Measures and Oil Inspector, by adding four new sections to said chapter, to be known as Sections 595a, 595b, 595c, and 595d. Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah: SECTION 1. That Section 582 of the Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City of 1903, relating to weights and measures to be s sealed and marked, be, and the same is hereby amended and re-enact.d so as to read as follows, to wit: 582. Every person, firm, corporation or association using weights, measures, soales, beams, steelyards, patent balances, automatic or other computing scales, or other weigh ing, measuring or computing instruments or appliances, in weighing or measuring, or computing the selling or purchasing price of any article offered for sale, or intended to be pur- chased or sold within this city, or in the measurement or weight, or the computation of the selling or purchasing price in which any person or the public is interested, shall cause each and every of said instruments or appliances to be sealed and marked before using the same, and annually thereafter by the Sealer of Weights and Measures and Oil Inspector; and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or associ ation to use or permit to be used any such instruments or appliances not so sealed or marked as aforesaid, or to use or permit to be used in buying, selling, weighing, measuring, or in computing, any false weights, measures, scales, beams, ste:l- i pueds, patent balances, automatic or other computing scales o other weighing, measuring or computing instruments or appli- ances, whether the same have been inspected and sealed as aft) e- !� said or not. 28 Whenever any person shall change his place of business, all instruments and appliances herein named shall be inspected, sealed and marked within six days after such change has been made. SECTION 2. That Chapter XLV of the Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City of 1903, relating to the Sealer of Weights and Measures and Oil Inspector, be, and the same is hereby amended by adding to said Chapter four sections to be known as Sections 595a, 595b, 595e and 595d, to read as follows, to-wit: 595a. CONDEMNING AND DESTROYING WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. If the Sealer of Weights and Measures shall find that any weights or measures, scales, scale beams, patent balances, automatic or computing scales for weighing, measuring or com- puting are incorrect, inaccurate or unreliable, each such applianoe shall be marked "condemned". The owner of any con- demned weighing instruments shall, within five days thereafter, have the same corrected, and shall not use the same until ap- proved by the Sealer of Weights and Measures. 595b. SCALES ON ICE WAGONS. All corporations, firms and individuals, who shall now, or who may hereafter be engaged in the business of selling ice within the limits of the City of Salt Lake, in quantities of less than one thousand pounds, and ' delivered at any one time to any as Ogee customer, whether such ice shall be intended for domestic use or for cooling purposes, shall keep on each and every one of its wagons a standard pair of scales, suitable and proper for weighing ice, and each such corporation shall deliver to each purchaser not -a- less than the exact:quantity palled for; and all ice within the limits of Salt Lake City shall be sold by avoirdupois weight. 595o. TICKET. WEIGHERS. Any person, firm, association or corporation selling or offering for sale within this city, any coal, or coke, or hay or straw, baled or loose, and every officer, agent or employee of such person, firm, association or corporation shall, on demand of the Sealer of Weights and Measures of said city, deliver to him or his deputy a ticket of the weight of any such commodities which is to be delivers• by any such person, that said weight may be verified. It sha 1 thereupon beoome the duty of the person, firm, association or corporation, officer, agent or employee delivering such commo.- ity, upon demand of said Sealer of Weights and Measures, or his deputy, to convey the same forthwith to the nearest publi. or private scales to be selected by said officer, and permit the weighing of said commodity, together with the conveyance and equipment, for the purpose of ascertaining the gross weight thereof, and shall after the delivery of such commodit, , return forthwith with the conveyance and equipment used in the delivery of such commodity to the same scale and permit the weighing of said conveyance and equipment, for the purpos: of verifying the net weight of said commodity as shown by sai. ticket. 595d. BREAD. WEIGHT. LABEL. Every loaf of bread made or procured for the purpose of sale, sold, offered or exposed for sale in Salt Lake City, shall weigh one pound avoirdupois and such loaf shall be considered to be the standard loaf in Salt Lake City. Bread may also be made or procured for the purpose of sale, sold, offered or exposed for sale in half, three-quarter, double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, or sextu±le loaves, and in no other way. Every loaf of bread made or =4- procured for the purpose of sale, sold, offered or exposed for sale in Salt Lake City, shall have affixed thereon in a con- spicuous plane, a label at least one inch square, or if round, at least one inch in diameter, upon which label there shall be printed in plain type,the letters and figures of which shall be printed in black ink upon white paper from type not smaller or making a less conspicuous letter then the type commonly known as twelve point, full face, Gothic capital letters and figures, the weight of the loaf in pound, pounds or fraction of a pound avoirdupois, whether the loaf be a standard loaf or not, together with the business name and address of the maker, baker or manufacturer of the loaf; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to crackers, pret- zels, biscuits, buns, scones, rolls, or loaves of fancy bread weighing less than one-quarter of a pound avoirdupois, or what is commonly known as stale bread, sold as such. SECTION 3. That Section 596 of the Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City of 1903, relating to penalty for the violation of the provisions of Chapter XLV of said Revised Ordinances of 1903, be, and the same is hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows, to-wit: 596. PENALTY. Any person, firm, association or corpora- tion violating any of the provisions of this Chapter, or any amendments thereto, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $50.00, or by imprisonment in the city jail for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect one day after its publication. -4- Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah, February 27th , 1912. City Recorder.—_....__._ a y o r . • • • • i is ..;1`c -.I. flu ' i'l,a1flIf::`:. _' 1 ri ' ] i I ix ir'r; S 1 ---,.c 1 . r F11 II r c i 1.1 t k..) . \.\\ .