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2016 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 5 - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
CHAPTER 7 - Weighmasters
Section 12731.

CA Bus & Prof Code § 12731 (2016) What's This?

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 any livestock market, market agency, or dealer which is subject to the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 (7 U.S.C. Sec. 181 et seq.), the livestock shall be weighed by a weighmaster, and a weighmaster certificate shall be issued to the buyer and seller.

(b) The term livestock includes cattle, sheep, swine, horses, mules, and goats.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 646, Sec. 4.)

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