Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -

• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 1
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Weights and Measures Act". (Source: Laws 1963, p. 3433.)
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 2
  Definitions. As used in this Act: "Person" means both singular and plural as the case demands, and includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, companies, societies and associations....
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 3
  Recognition and use of systems. The system of weights and measures in customary use in the United States and the metric system of weights...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 4
  The term "barrel", when used in connection with fermented liquor, means a unit of 31 gallons. The term "ton" means a unit of 2,000...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 5
  State standards; safekeeping. Weights and measures supplied to the State of Illinois by the federal government or otherwise obtained by the State for use...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 6
  The Director shall be, ex officio, the director of weights and measures for the State of Illinois. The Director may designate or appoint qualified persons...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 7
  The Director shall maintain custody of the State standards of weight and measure and of other standards and equipment provided for by this Act and...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 8
  Regulations; issuance; contents. The Director shall from time to time issue reasonable regulations for enforcement of this Act that shall have the force and effect...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 8.1
  Registration of servicepersons, service agents, and special sealers. No person, firm, or corporation shall sell, install, service, recondition or repair a weighing or measuring device...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 9
  Calibration of field standards procured by cities. At least once every year, the Director shall test the standards of weights and measures procured by...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 10
  Inspection. Unless otherwise provided by law, the Director may inspect and test all weights and measures held, offered, or exposed for sale to ascertain if...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 11
  The Director shall investigate complaints received by him concerning violations of the provisions of this Act and shall conduct such investigations as he deems appropriate...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 12
  The Director shall from time to time weigh or measure and inspect packages or amounts of commodities held, offered or exposed for sale or sold...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 13
  The Director may issue stop-use orders, stop-removal orders and removal orders with respect to weights and measures being or susceptible of being commercially used, and...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 14
  Upon inspection and test, the Director shall approve for use and may seal or mark with appropriate devices such weights and measures as he finds...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 15
  To enforce this Act and other Acts dealing with weights and measures and enforceable by him, the Director is vested with special police powers, and...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 16
  The powers and duties given to and imposed upon the Director by Sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21 and 56 of this...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 17
  Sealer weights and measures. In and for each city having a population of 25,000 or more according to the latest official United States census,...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 19
  Subject to the annual training provisions of Section 17, the sealer of a city, and each of his deputy sealers when acting under his instructions...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 20
  The common or legislative council of each city for which a sealer has been appointed pursuant to Section 17 of this Act shall (1) procure...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 21
  In cities for which sealers of weights and measures have been appointed pursuant to this Act, the Director shall have concurrent authority to enforce the...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 22
  Rejected weights and measures. Weights and measures rejected under the authority of the Director or a sealer remain subject to control of the rejecting...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 23
  Commodities in liquid form shall be sold only by liquid measure or by weight, and, except as otherwise provided in this Act, commodities not in...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 24
  Except as otherwise provided in this Act, any commodity in package form introduced or delivered for introduction into or received in intrastate commerce or...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 25
  In addition to the declarations required by Section 24 of this Act, any commodity in package form, the package being one of a lot...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 26
  No commodity in package form shall be so wrapped, nor shall it be in a container so made, formed or filled, as to mislead the...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 27
  Whenever a commodity in package form is advertised in any manner and the retail price of the package is stated in the advertisement, there...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 28
  The word "weight" as used in this Act in connection with any commodity shall mean net weight. Whenever any commodity is sold on the...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 29
  Whenever any commodity or service is sold or is offered, exposed or advertised for sale by weight, measure or count, the price shall not...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 30
  National Institute of Standards and Technology requirements and specifications. Each type of weight and measure or weighing and measuring device manufactured, offered, or exposed for...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 32
  Certificate of Conformance; appeal. For a weight or measure or weighing or measuring device to be certified for use in the State of Illinois,...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 33
  It is unlawful for any person to manufacture, offer or expose for sale, or to sell or give away for use in trade or...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 36
  It is unlawful to manufacture, offer or expose for sale, or sell or give away, for use in trade or commerce, or to use in...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 37
  It is unlawful to cast, stamp, etch or otherwise mark, upon any weight or measure or weighing or measuring device, the type of which...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 39
  Inspectors of weights and measures of this State may seal, for use in trade or commerce, all weights and measures and weighing and measuring...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 40
  Inspection fee; Weights and Measures Fund. The Director and each sealer shall collect and receive from the user of weights and measures a commercial weighing...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 41
  No person shall operate, upon the streets or highways of this State any vehicle tank used for commercial purposes unless such tank either is equipped...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 42
  Seal placed on weighing or measuring device; breaking for service; resealing. A seal placed on any weighing or measuring device by the Director may...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 43
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-600, eff. 9-1-94.)
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 44
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-600, eff. 9-1-94.)
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 45
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-600, eff. 9-1-94.)
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 46
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-600, eff. 9-1-94.)
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 47
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-600, eff. 9-1-94.)
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 48
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-600, eff. 9-1-94.)
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 49
  Sale from bulk. All bulk sales in which the buyer and seller are not both present to witness the measurement, all bulk deliveries of...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 50
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-600, eff. 9-1-94.)
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 51
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-600, eff. 9-1-94.)
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 52
  The Director may by regulation establish a standard weight per bushel for any agricultural commodity, and any such weight per bushel shall prevail when such...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 53
  Fractional parts of any unit of weight or measure shall mean like fractional parts of the value of such unit as prescribed or defined...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 54
  A person who in any way hinders or obstructs the Director, his authorized representative, any one of the inspectors or a sealer, deputy sealer or...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 55
  A person who in any way impersonates the Director, his authorized representative, any one of the inspectors or a sealer, deputy sealer or special sealer,...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 56
  (1) A person who, by himself or herself or by his or her employee or agent or as the employee or agent of another person,...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 56.1
  Administrative penalties; judicial review. When an administrative hearing is held, the hearing officer, upon determination of any violation of any Section of this Act shall...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 56.2
  The Director or his agent may publish or cause to be published any information pertinent to the issuance of the decision of the court...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 58
  The director may file a complaint and apply to the circuit court for, and such court upon hearing and for cause shown may grant,...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 59
  For the purposes of this Act, proof of the existence of a weight or measure or a weighing or measuring device in or about...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 60
  Prosecutions for violation of any provision of this Act are declared to be valid and proper notwithstanding the existence of any other valid general...
• Illinois Weights and Measures Act. - 225 ILCS 470, Section 61
  If any provision of this Act is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the constitutionality of...

Last modified: February 18, 2015