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<br /> 16 of this Ordinance, or if used or disposed of contrary to the requirements of
<br /> Section 16 of this Ordinance.
<br /> SECTION 14. SAME: POLICE POWERS; RIGHT OF ENTRY AND STOPPAGE. With re-
<br /> spect to the enforcement of this Ordinance and any other Ordinance or Washington
<br /> State Statute dealing with weights and measures that he is, or may be, empowered
<br /> to enforce, the Sealer is hereby vested with special police powers, and is authorized
<br /> to arrest, without formal warrant, any violator of the said Ordinance or Statutes,
<br /> and to seize for use as evidence, without formal warrant, incorrect or unsealed
<br /> weights and measures or amounts or packages of commodity, found to be used, retained,
<br /> offered or exposed for sale, or sold in violation of law. In the performance of
<br /> his official duties, the Sealer is authorized to enter and go into or upon, with-
<br /> out formal warrant, any structure or premises, and to stop any person whatsoever
<br /> and to require him to proceed, with or without any vehicle of which he may be in
<br /> charge, to some place which the Sealer may specify.
<br /> SECTION 15. POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPUTY SEALERS. The powers and duties
<br /> given to and imposed upon the Sealer by Sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 37
<br /> of this Ordinance are hereby given to and imposed upon the deputy sealers also,
<br /> when acting under the instructions and at the direction of the Sealer.
<br /> SECTION 16. DUTY OF OWNERS OF INCORRECT APPARATUS. Weights and measures
<br /> that have been rejected under the authority of the Sealer shall remain subject to
<br /> the control of the rejecting authority until such time as suitable repair or dis-
<br /> position thereof has been made as required by this section. The owners of such
<br /> rejected weights and measures shall cause the same to be made correct within 30
<br /> days or such longer period as may be authorized by the rejecting authority; or,
<br /> in lieu of this, may dispose of the same, but only in such manner as is specifically
<br /> authorized by the rejecting authority. Weights and measures that have been rejected
<br /> shall not again be used commercially until they have been officially re-examined
<br /> and found to be correct or until specific written permission for such use is
<br /> issued by the rejecting authority.
<br /> SECTION 17. METHOD OF SALE OF COMMODITIES: • GENERAL. Commodities in
<br /> liquid form shall be sold only by liquid measure or by weight, and, except as other-
<br /> wise provided in this Ordinance, commodities not in liquid form shall be sold only
<br /> by weight, by measure of length or area, or by count: Provided, That liquid com-
<br /> modities may be sold by weight and commodities not in liquid form may be sold by
<br /> count only if such methods give accurate information as to the quantity of com-
<br /> modity sold: And provided further, That the provisions of this section shall not
<br /> apply (1) to commodities when sold for immediate consumption on the premises where
<br /> sold, (2) to vegetables when sold by the head or bunch, (3) to commodities in con-
<br /> tainers standardized by a law of the State or by Federal law, (4) to commodities
<br /> in package form when there exists a general consumer usage to express the quantity
<br /> in some other manner, (5) to concrete aggregates, concrete mixtures, and loose solid
<br /> materials such as earth, soil, gravel, crushed stone, and the like, when sold by
<br /> cubic measure, or (6) to unprocessed vegetable and animal fertilizer when sold by
<br /> cubic measure.
<br /> SECTION 18. SAME: PACKAGES: DECLARATIONS OF QUANTITY AND ORIGIN; VARIATIONS;
<br /> EXEMPTIONS. Except as otherwise provided in this Ordinance, any commodity in package
<br /> form introduced or delivered for introduction into or received in intrastate com-
<br /> merce, kept for the purpose of sale, or offered or exposed for sale in intrastate
<br /> commerce shall bear on the out-side of the package a definite, plain, and conspicuous
<br /> declaration of (1) the identity of the commodity in the package unless the same can
<br /> easily be identified through the wrapper or container, (2) the net quantity of the
<br /> contents in terms of weight, measure, or count, and (3) in the case of any package
<br /> kept, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold any place other than on the premises
<br /> where packed, the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or dis-
<br /> tributor: Provided, That in connection with the declaration required under clause
<br /> (1), neither the qualifying term "when packed" or any words of similar import, nor
<br /> any term qualifying a unit of weight, measure, or count (for example, "jumbo,"
<br /> -giant," "full," and the like) that tends to exaggerate the amount of commodity
<br /> in a package, shall be used.
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