CONSUMER ACT:ARTICLE 64. Fraudulent Practices Relative to Weights and Measures

ARTICLE 64. Fraudulent Practices Relative to Weights and Measures - The following acts relating to weights and measures are prohibited:

a) for any person other than the official sealer or his duly authorized representative to place or
attach an official tag, seal, sticker, mark, stamp, brand or other characteristic sign used to
indicate that such instrument of weight and measure has officially been tested, calibrated,
sealed or inspected;

b) for any person to imitate any seal, sticker, mark, stamp, brand, tag or other characteristic sign
used to indicate that such instrument of weight and measures has been officially tested,
calibrated, sealed or inspected;

c) for any person other than the official sealer or his duly authorized representative to alter in
any way the certificate or receipt given by the official sealer or his duly authorized
representative as an acknowledgment that the instrument for determining weight and
measure has been fully tested, calibrated, sealed or inspected;

d) for any person to make or knowingly sell or use any false or counterfeit seal, sticker, brand,
stamp, tag, certificate or license or any dye for printing or making the same or any
characteristic sign used to indicate that such instrument of weight and measure has been
officially tested, calibrated sealed or inspected;

e) or any person other than the official sealer or his duly authorized representative to alter the
written or printed figures, letters or symbols on any official seal, sticker, receipt, stamp, tag,
certificate or license used or issued;

f) for any person to use or reuse any restored, altered, expired, damaged stamp, tag certificate
or license for the purpose of making it appear that the instrument of weight and measure has
been tested, calibrated, sealed or inspected;

g) for any person engaged in the buying and selling of consumer products or of furnishing
services the value of which is estimated by weight or measure to possess, use or maintain
with intention to use any scale, balance, weight or measure that has not been sealed or if
previously sealed, the licensetherefor has expired and has not been renewed in due time;

h) for any person to fraudulently alter any scale, balance weight or measure after it is officially
sealed;

i) for any person to knowingly use any false scale, balance weight or measure, whether sealed
or not;

j) for any person to fraudulently give short weight or measure in the making of a scale;

k) for any person, assuming to determine truly the weight or measure of any article bought or
sold by weight or measure, to fraudulently misrepresent the weight or measure thereof; or

l) for any person to procure the commission of any such offense above-mentioned by another.
Instruments officially sealed at some previous time which have remained unaltered and
accurate and the seal or tag officially affixed thereto remains intact and in the same position
and condition in which it was placed by official sealer or his duly authorized representative
shall, if presented for sealing, be sealed promptly on demand by the official sealer or his
authorized representative without penalty except a surcharge fixed by law or regulation.