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2016 Code of Alabama
Title 8 - COMMERCIAL LAW AND CONSUMER PROTECTION.
Chapter 16 - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
- Section 8-16-1 - Definitions.
- Section 8-16-2 - Standard measure of length, surface, weight, and capacity.
- Section 8-16-3 - Standards approved by Congress to be state standards.
- Section 8-16-4 - Contracts construed according to standards ascertained by Congress.
- Section 8-16-5 - Custody of state standards; duties of Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries as to standards.
- Section 8-16-6 - Duties generally of commissioner respecting weights and measures.
- Section 8-16-7 - Powers of commissioner and local sealers in supervising weights and measures.
- Section 8-16-8 - Weights or measures corresponding with standards to be sealed or marked.
- Section 8-16-9 - Condemnation, repair, etc., of nonstandard weights and measures.
- Section 8-16-10 - Seizure for evidence of incorrect, false, or unsealed weight, measure, device, package, or commodity.
- Section 8-16-11 - Powers of sheriff conferred upon commissioner and sealers; exhibition of badges; power of arrest.
- Section 8-16-12 - Possession of altered, etc., weight, measure or device prima facie evidence of guilt.
- Section 8-16-13 - Existence of weights, measures or devices in place of sale, etc., presumptive proof of use and ownership.
- Section 8-16-15 - Rules and regulations; fees.
- Section 8-16-16 - Standards for containers of farm products - Duty to establish.
- Section 8-16-17 - Standards for containers of farm products - Adoption of federal standards.
- Section 8-16-18 - Penalties for violation of chapter.
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