California Business and Professions Code CHAPTER 7 - Weighmasters

• Section 12700.
  A weighmaster is any person who, for hire or otherwise, weighs, measures, or counts any commodity and issues a statement or memorandum of the weight,...
• Section 12700.5.
  (a) A weighmaster is not required to provide weighing services to the general public.(b) Weighing for hire is at the discretion of the weighmaster.(Added by Stats. 1984,...
• Section 12701.
  The following persons are not weighmasters:(a) Retailers weighing, measuring, or counting commodities for sale by them in retail stores in the presence of, and directly to,...
• Section 12702.
  “Weighmaster,” when used without qualification, includes a deputy weighmaster.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 646, Sec. 4.)
• Section 12703.
  Except as provided in Section 12701, no person shall perform any acts described in Section 12700, unless licensed as a weighmaster pursuant to this chapter...
• Section 12703.1.
  (a) In addition to any other requirements for issuance of a license pursuant to this chapter, if the applicant is a recycler or junk dealer as...
• Section 12704.
  (a) A weighmaster shall pay to the department the following license fee for each license year as applicable to the operation:(1) Seventy-five dollars ($75) if the weighmaster...
• Section 12704.a.
  (a) A weighmaster shall pay to the department the following license fee for each license year as applicable to the operation:(1) Seventy-five dollars ($75) if the weighmaster...
• Section 12705.
  Any change in the legal entity of a licensed weighmaster requires the new legal entity to obtain a weighmaster license before operating as a weighmaster.(Repealed...
• Section 12706.
  (a) The secretary may assign or reassign dates for the expiration of licenses for any weighmaster.(b) The secretary may establish a license year for any weighmaster consisting...
• Section 12707.
  Each license required by this chapter shall be renewed annually, on or before the first day of the first month of the licensee’s license year,...
• Section 12708.
  The secretary may refuse to grant any license provided for by this chapter, or may refuse to renew any license, and may revoke or suspend...
• Section 12709.
  (a) All license fees collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund to be expended by the department...
• Section 12709.a.
  (a) All license fees collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund to be expended by the department...
• Section 12710.
  A weighmaster may employ or designate any person to act for the weighmaster as a deputy weighmaster and shall be responsible for all acts performed...
• Section 12710.5.
  (a) At any time during the license year, any weighmaster may replace deputies without payment of additional fees by forwarding to the department the name of...
• Section 12711.
  A weighmaster shall issue a weighmaster certificate whenever payment for the commodity or service represented is dependent on a written or printed weight, measure, or...
• Section 12712.
  (a) A weighmaster certificate may be signed and issued by a weighmaster other than the weighmaster actually determining the weight, measure, or count of any commodity,...
• Section 12713.
  (a) A weighmaster is responsible for ensuring that the weighmaster certificates issued by him or her, or a deputy acting for him or her, are complete...
• Section 12714.
  (a) There shall appear in an appropriate and conspicuous place on each certificate, and all copies thereof, the following legend:  WEIGHMASTER CERTIFICATETHIS IS TO CERTIFY that...
• Section 12714.5.
  All information contained on the certificate shall be clear and legible.Each certificate shall be numbered consecutively.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 646, Sec. 4.)
• Section 12715.
  Each certificate shall provide for the following information as applicable to the transaction:(a) The date on which the weight, measure, or count was determined.(b) The street address...
• Section 12716.
  All weighmasters shall keep and preserve, as records, for a period of four years, all copies of voided certificates, records, and worksheets required by this...
• Section 12716.5.
  A certificate on which a weight, measure, or count error is discovered after issuance shall be corrected by issuing a correction certificate to all parties...
• Section 12717.
  Any weighing, measuring, or counting instrument or device, as defined in Section 12500, which is used by a weighmaster and for which specifications and tolerances...
• Section 12718.
  Any person who does any of the following acts is guilty of a misdemeanor:(a) Requests any person to weigh, measure, or count any commodity falsely or...
• Section 12718.5.
  Subdivision (g) of Section 12718 does not apply to any of the following:(a) Persons engaged in the business of printing, distributing, or selling weighmaster certificate forms.(b) Persons...
• Section 12719.
  When the weight or measure of a vehicle, container, or pallet and its net contents has been recorded on a weighmaster certificate, it is unlawful...
• Section 12720.
  When the tare weight of a vehicle or the weight of the vehicle and its contents have been recorded on a weighmaster certificate, it is...
• Section 12721.
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the vehicle, container, pallet, or commodity for which the weight, measure, or count is being certified shall actually...
• Section 12722.
  (a) In accordance with this chapter and regulations adopted by the secretary, any weighmaster may use a tare weight for a vehicle, container, or pallet that...
• Section 12723.
  The secretary shall adopt regulations for the establishment of vehicle, container, and pallet tares, including, but not limited to, the adoption of conditions of use,...
• Section 12724.
  (a) Except as provided in this section, a weighmaster weighing a vehicle for certification shall determine both gross and tare weights with all persons off the...
• Section 12725.
  A weighmaster shall not certify to the gross weight of a vehicle whenever all of the following conditions prevail:(a) The scale is located at the site...
• Section 12726.
  (a) If doubt or differences arise as to the accuracy of the weight, measure, or count of any amount or part of any commodity, unladen vehicle,...
• Section 12727.
  The secretary may, at any time, require a vehicle to proceed to the nearest vehicle scale for the purpose of weight verification.(Amended by Stats. 2012,...
• Section 12728.
  (a) No weighmaster shall weigh a vehicle, or combination of vehicles, for certification, when part of the vehicle, or connected combination, is not resting on the...
• Section 12729.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.(b) Violations of Sections 12714, 12714.5,...
• Section 12730.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 12701 or this section, farm products sold by bulk weight or delivered to a processing...
• Section 12731.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, where livestock is sold on the basis of weight at a public sales yard, or by or at...
• Section 12732.
  In addition to the certificate requirements of Sections 12714, 12714.5, and 12715, all of the following information shall appear on weighmaster certificates issued when adjustments...
• Section 12733.
  In all cases where scrap metal and salvage materials are purchased or sold by dealers, brokers, or commission merchants on the basis of weight or...
• Section 12734.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the weight of squid, Pacific whiting, or anchovy, certified pursuant to this chapter, may be determined by computation...
• Section 12735.
  The secretary may adopt any rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary for the purpose of carrying out this chapter. Adoption of these rules and...
• Section 12737.
  (a) Any weighmaster weighing any vehicle moving construction materials, including, but not limited to, earth, stone, rock, sand, gravel, limestone, ready mixed concrete, cementitious materials, recycled...
• Section 12737.a.
  (a) Any weighmaster weighing any vehicle moving construction materials, including, but not limited to, earth, stone, rock, sand, gravel, limestone, ready mixed concrete, cementitious materials, recycled...

Last modified: October 22, 2018