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2018 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 51 - STANDARDS, WEIGHTS, MEASURES AND CONTAINERS
Chapter 1 - Municipal power not impaired
- Section 51:1-1 - Municipal power not impaired
- Section 51:1-2 - Definitions
- Section 51:1-3 - Use of both systems
- Section 51:1-4 - Yard
- Section 51:1-5 - Chain for measurement of land
- Section 51:1-6 - Test of measuring devices
- Section 51:1-7 - Standard ton
- Section 51:1-8 - Pound; avoirdupois; troy
- Section 51:1-9 - Gallon; quart
- Section 51:1-10 - Sale of milk or cream
- Section 51:1-11 - Labeling or tagging milk cans
- Section 51:1-12 - Penalties; disposition
- Section 51:1-13 - Branding butter and cheese packages; penalty
- Section 51:1-14 - Use of unbranded package; defacing or altering brand; penalty
- Section 51:1-15 - Liquids only to be sold by liquid measure
- Section 51:1-16 - Bushel
- Section 51:1-17 - Foods sold only by weight or numerical count; exceptions
- Section 51:1-18 - Bread to be sold by weight; specification of weight to purchaser
- Section 51:1-25 - Peach basket; marking, etc.; penalty
- Section 51:1-26 - Sale of fruits or vegetables in nonstandard containers forbidden
- Section 51:1-27 - Marking of containers
- Section 51:1-27.1 - Penalty for violations of section 51:1-26 or section 51:1-27
- Section 51:1-28 - Marking of containers; packer's name; penalty
- Section 51:1-29 - Commodity package labeling; slack filling
- Section 51:1-29.1 - Hydrate of sodium tetraborate
- Section 51:1-29.2 - Net weight standards pertaining to flour; adopted
- Section 51:1-31.1 - Terms defined
- Section 51:1-31.4 - Weight
- Section 51:1-31.10 - Tolerances or variations as to quantity
- Section 51:1-33 - Definitions
- Section 51:1-34 - Tested scales
- Section 51:1-35 - Delivery tickets; marking; alteration prohibited
- Section 51:1-35.1 - Penalties for violations of section 51:1-34 or section 51:1-35
- Section 51:1-42 - Department; composition
- Section 51:1-43 - Appointment of superintendents; record of appointment of municipal superintendents
- Section 51:1-44 - Assistant state superintendents; clerical assistants
- Section 51:1-45 - Assistant county and municipal superintendents; number; deputy superintendents; powers
- Section 51:1-46 - Persons employed to give full time
- Section 51:1-47 - No other person to engage as superintendent, etc.
- Section 51:1-48 - Superintendents and assistants; qualifications
- Section 51:1-49 - State superintendent and assistants; salaries
- Section 51:1-50 - County and municipal superintendents and assistants; salaries
- Section 51:1-51 - County superintendents; expenses
- Section 51:1-52 - County and municipal superintendents; under civil service
- Section 51:1-53 - County and municipal superintendents; assistants and secretaries; tenure of office; hearing prior to discharge, etc.
- Section 51:1-54 - State superintendent as administrator
- Section 51:1-54.1 - Issuance of subpenas
- Section 51:1-54.2 - Weighing and measuring devices; registration; fees
- Section 51:1-54.3 - Fees; amounts, schedule; use
- Section 51:1-54.4 - Weights and Measures Fund
- Section 51:1-55 - Standards
- Section 51:1-56 - Establish containers for farm products
- Section 51:1-58 - Seals and certificates
- Section 51:1-59 - Annual tests in state departments
- Section 51:1-60 - Records
- Section 51:1-61 - Regulations
- Section 51:1-62 - Disseminate information
- Section 51:1-63 - Superintendents and assistants; enforcement of laws; power to weigh commodities
- Section 51:1-64 - Identification device
- Section 51:1-65 - County and municipal superintendents; custodians of standards; annual inspections of weights and measures
- Section 51:1-66 - Exclusive use of standards
- Section 51:1-67 - Standards or copies to be furnished to assistants
- Section 51:1-68 - County and municipal superintendents; jurisdiction; special designations by state superintendent
- Section 51:1-69 - State superintendent may send assistants into any county
- Section 51:1-70 - Superintendents to keep records; monthly reports
- Section 51:1-71 - Superintendents; annual reports
- Section 51:1-72 - Annual report
- Section 51:1-73 - Definitions; public weighmaster; private weighmaster
- Section 51:1-74 - Term; certificate of appointment; fee; use
- Section 51:1-75 - Oath of office; no compensation from state; duties
- Section 51:1-76 - Seal
- Section 51:1-77 - Certificate of weight and measure; contents; prima facie evidence
- Section 51:1-77.1 - Certification of tare weight by weighmaster
- Section 51:1-78 - Reweighing on complaint
- Section 51:1-79 - Records of public weighings
- Section 51:1-80 - Penalties; requesting false weighing; false certificate or other violation by weighmaster
- Section 51:1-80.1 - Weighing on scales outside state authorized
- Section 51:1-81 - Weighing of live stock, hay and grain; report to owner; record
- Section 51:1-82 - Fraudulent report of weight; penalties; imprisonment; double damages; interstate carriers, inapplicable to
- Section 51:1-82.1 - State-owned scales; weighmasters
- Section 51:1-83 - Only sealed weights and measures to be used; violations resulting in injury voids contract
- Section 51:1-84 - Testing and sealing of all weights and measures; fee collection
- Section 51:1-85 - Tests made at request of owner; defective weights or measures; penalty
- Section 51:1-86 - Tests; defective weights, etc.; additional penalty
- Section 51:1-87 - Refusal to seal weight, etc., easily arranged to defraud; review
- Section 51:1-88 - Examination mandated
- Section 51:1-89 - General penalty
- Section 51:1-90 - Hindering official; penalty
- Section 51:1-91 - Changing weight or measure prohibited
- Section 51:1-93 - Legal standard
- Section 51:1-94 - Retention of false weights, etc.; misdemeanor
- Section 51:1-95 - Marking of short weights and tares; misdemeanor
- Section 51:1-96 - Penalties for using false weights
- Section 51:1-97 - Illegal weighing activities; penalties
- Section 51:1-98 - Deviations; scale of penalties
- Section 51:1-99.1 - Prior violations not included
- Section 51:1-100 - Separate violations
- Section 51:1-101 - Presence of weights, etc., presumptive evidence of use
- Section 51:1-102 - Certificate
- Section 51:1-103 - Jurisdiction for action
- Section 51:1-103.1 - Injunctions
- Section 51:1-105 - Penalty enforcement
- Section 51:1-106 - Arrest; confiscation
- Section 51:1-107 - Appeal; no bond or deposit required when State appeals
- Section 51:1-109 - Disposition of penalties
- Section 51:1-110 - Costs to prevailing party in Superior or municipal court; provision in budgets
- Section 51:1-111 - City attorney or county prosecutor to aid in prosecution
- Section 51:1-113 - Definitions
- Section 51:1-114 - License and registration to engage in business
- Section 51:1-115 - Application for license and registration; verification under oath
- Section 51:1-116 - Examination and inquiry; issuance of license and registration
- Section 51:1-117 - Conduct of examinations
- Section 51:1-118 - Rules and regulations
- Section 51:1-119 - License to repair limited classes or kinds of devices
- Section 51:1-120 - Issuance of licenses to repair devices
- Section 51:1-121 - Licenses and registrations; term; renewal; contents
- Section 51:1-122 - Revocation or suspension of license; grounds; hearing; notice
- Section 51:1-123 - Report of repair work done by licensee
- Section 51:1-124 - Notice and statement to state department or county or municipal superintendent of weights and measures
- Section 51:1-125 - Condemned weighing or measuring devices
- Section 51:1-126 - Comparison and calibration of testing equipment
- Section 51:1-127 - Record or register
- Section 51:1-128 - Fees; use
- Section 51:1-129 - Administration of Act; rules and regulations
- Section 51:1-130 - Enforcement of Act
- Section 51:1-131 - Penalties for violations of Act
- Section 51:1-132 - Recovery of penalties, procedure
- Section 51:1-133 - Exceptions to application of Act
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