Georgia Code, Title 10, Chapter 2, Article 2 - Certified Public Weighers

• § 10-2-40 - Persons Who May Be Licensed and Known As Certified Public Weighers
  Any person who shall weigh, measure, or record the indications or readings of weighing or measuring and declare the weight, measure, reading, or recording...
• § 10-2-41 - License Required; Application; Issuance
  (a) Any person who desires to be a certified public weigher in this state shall apply for and obtain a license permit from the...
• § 10-2-42 - Duration of License; Fees; Cost of Seals
  Certified public weighers shall be licensed for a period of one year beginning on July 1 and ending on June 30, next. A fee...
• § 10-2-43 - Revocation of License Permit for Malfeasance or Violation; Notice and Hearing
  After reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing before the Commissioner, in accordance with Chapter 13 of Title 50, the "Georgia Administrative Procedure Act,"...
• § 10-2-44 - Surety Bonds
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 1991, p. 322, § 1, effective July 1, 1991.
• § 10-2-45 - Certified Public Weigher's Official Seal
  It shall be the duty of every certified public weigher licensed under this article to obtain through the Department of Agriculture an official seal...
• § 10-2-46 - Issuance of Official Seals to Licensed Tobacco Warehousemen
  For the weighing of leaf tobacco sold or offered for sale at a licensed tobacco warehouse, an official seal for certification of all weights...
• § 10-2-47 - Return of Seal on Termination of Duties
  In the interest of public welfare, the seal provided for a certified public weigher shall be the property of the State of Georgia and...
• § 10-2-48 - Duties of Certified Public Weighers
  It shall be the duty of bonded certified public weighers licensed under this article to issue certificates of weight, measure, count, or recording on...
• § 10-2-49 - Use of Untested Weight, Measure, or Device Prohibited
  It shall be unlawful for any certified public weigher to use any weights, measures, reading, or recording device which has not been tested and...
• § 10-2-50 - Weighing Leaf Tobacco and Livestock
  (a) On and after March 9, 1956, all leaf tobacco sold, or offered for sale, in a tobacco warehouse shall be weighed by a...
• § 10-2-51 - Sale of Coal or Coke by Itinerant Dealer Without Having Weight Certified; Penalty
  Any itinerant dealer who shall sell or offer to sell coal or coke by a weight other than a weight certified by a person...
• § 10-2-52 - Commissioner of Agriculture to Administer Article; Rules and Regulations; Regulation of Livestock Auction Barns
  This article shall be administered by the Commissioner of Agriculture, and he is empowered to make and promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the...
• § 10-2-53 - Administrative Penalty for Violation of Article or Order, Rule, or Regulation; Judicial Review; Proceedings for Collection
  (a) As an alternative to criminal or other civil enforcement, the Commissioner, in order to enforce this article or any orders, rules, and regulations...
• § 10-2-54 - Criminal Penalties for Violations by Certified Public Weighers and Others; Revocation of Licenses; Forfeiture of Seals
  (a) Any certified public weigher who shall issue a certificate giving a false weight, measure, count, or reading, or who shall misrepresent the weight,...

Last modified: October 14, 2016