47 of 1912 - Amending Section 585, Standard of Weights and Measures ROLL CALL
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VOTING Yes Na I move that the attached ordinance. be passed..
Keyser
Korns I. y_:---- Commissioner of Public Safety.
Lawrence
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Morris Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake
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Mr.Chairman . .....
City,Utah,April 8th, 1912.
RESULT J
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i.ULL CALL
L. x.ry, Utah, April 8ih, ..191.2
VOTING Yes No I move that the ordinance be passed'
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Korns
Lawrence .__..._.�_-
Morris - -
Mr.Chairman , I.........
RESULT
AY ORDINANCE .
An ordinance emending and re-enacting Section 585 of the Re-
vised Ordinances of Salt Lake City of 1900, as amended; and. amend
i.n and re-enacting Section 588 of said Revised Ordinances, estab-'
lishing a standard of wei;hts for the sole of commodities, and
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fixing a standard of measures for certain commodities.
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake
City, Utah:
SECTION 1. That Section 585 of the Revised Ordinances of •
Salt Lake City, Utah, of 1905, as amended, be, and the same s
Thereby amended end ro-enacted so as to read as follows:
585. There is hereby established within Salt Lake City,1
a standard of weights for the sale of all commodities, end it
shall be unlawful for any person, firm, associction or corpo-
ration to sell or offer for sale in this city any commodity
which is not in conformity as to weight, with such standard.
When any commodity is purchased or sold by the ton,
pound, half-pound or quarter-pound, each ton, pound, half-
pound or quarter-pound shell contain respectively the follow- .
. ing number of pounds and ounces avoirdupois weight, and
grains Troy weight:
A ton shall consist of 2,000 pounds, avoirdupois weight; :
a pound shall consist of 16 ounces avoirdupois weight, or
7,000 grains Troy weight; a half-pound shall consist of 8
ounces avoirdupois weight, or 3,500 grains Troy weight; and a
quarter pound shall consist of four ounces avoirdupois weight,'
or 1,750 grains Troy weight.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association
or corporation to sell or offer for sale in this city, fruits '
or vegetables in bulk or loose packages, otherwise than by
weight.
Apples may be sold by the box provided they aro tiered •
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and packed in standard boxes of not less than the following
dimensions: 11-1/2 inches wide, 11-1/2 inches deep, 18-1/2 •
inches long, containing not less than 2446 cubic inches.
Strawberries, raspberries, dewberries, blackberries and
logan berries shall be packed in what are commonly known as
ten ounce cups, containing not less than 23-3/4 cubic inches,
or in what are known as one pound cups, containing not less
li than 42-1/2 cubic inches; provided, that raspberries may be
sold in smaller receptacles prior to and including the date
of June 15th in each year.
Oranges, lemons, grape fruit and peaches shall be sold
by count. All peaches packed in boxes for the market shall
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have the total count of the box plainly marked on the outside
of each box.
Concord grapes may be sold by the basket, and each
basket with its contents must weigh not less than seven pound$.
Bunch goods, such as lettuce, carrots, beets, radishes,
green onions, asparagus, bananas, do, shall be sold by count.
It shall be unlawful to use berry cups a second time as
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receptacles for fruit or vegetables, or to use unclean or
unsanitary crates, boxes or sacks.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association
or corporation to sell or offer for sale in Salt Lake City,
coal by the sack or bog, or hay by the bale without having
the net weight of said coal or hay stamped, printed or written
on a tag attached to said. sack or beg containing coal, or
attached to said bale of hay.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association
or corporation to refuse to weigh any package or receptacle
containing any article or property herein referred to, sold
or offered for sale, upon demand of the Sealer of i7eirh_ts and
Mea$Yxes so to do•
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SECTION 2. That Section 588 of the Revised Ordinances of
Salt Lake City of 1903, be, and the same is hereby amended and re- '
Ilenacted so as to read as follows:
588/ FENS. The fees collected for services by said
officer under this chapter, shall be by him covered into the
city treasury monthly, and shall be accounted for in full; fojr
each settlement he shall take from the treasurer duplicate
receipts, one of which he shall file with the city auditor.
Said inspector and sealer shall collect for each examination, ;
testing, sealing and certifying es horeinbefore required, the
following fees, which shall be collected from the owner or
owners of the weights, measures, or other articles tested:
For any steelyard or beam, ground, floor platform
or other scales by which may be weighed not ex-
ceeding 260 pounds 0.25 •
Any such instrument by which may be wei;phed over
260 pounds and not exceeding 600 pounds 0.50
Over 600 pounds and less than 1200 pounds 0.75 •
Over 1200 pounds and not exceeding 2500 pounds - - 1.00
Over 2500 pounds 2.50
Wagon scales 2.50
For any yard stick, dry or liquid measure 0.10
Provided that two or more yards in length
marked on a counter shall be, each 0.05
For any nest or set of measures 0.25
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And the weiCnts attached to any scale shall, as to the '
foe to be collected by such inspector snd sealer, be considered
a part of the scales. It shall not be lawful for said in-
spector and sealer to collect or receive the aforesaid ehargeS
more than ones in each six months from the same person for
the same instrument, unless such instrument is found to be out
of order, not conformable to the standard, or in case of
change of place of business; but no charge shall be made for
testing any measure or vessel for which s fee has once been
paid to an inspection officer actin7 unclor and. by authority
of this ordinance, and which bears the stamp or brand of such;
inspection.
SECTION 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances, 2nd rose u-
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tions or parts of resolutions in conflict herewith are hereby re- ,
pealed to the extent of such conflict.
SECTIOII 4. This ordinance shall take effect one day after its
publication. /J
Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City
.. Utah,April h, T914
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