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Section 12 : Investigations. <br /> The sealer shall investigate complaints concerning violations of <br /> the provisions of this ordinance, and shall, upon his/her own <br /> initiative, conduct investigations as deemed appropriate and <br /> advisable to develop information on prevailing procedures in <br /> commercial quantity determination and on possible violations of <br /> the provisions of this chapter and to promote the general <br /> objective of accuracy in the determination and representation of <br /> quantity in commercial transactions. <br /> Section 13 : Sample inspection of packages - Removal of items in <br /> violation. <br /> The sealer shall from time to time weigh or measure and inspect <br /> packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered, or exposed for <br /> sale, sold or in the process of delivery, to determine whether <br /> the same contain the amounts represented and whether they be <br /> kept, offered or exposed for sale, or sold, in accordance with <br /> law or regulations promulgated pursuant hereto; and when such <br /> packages or amount of commodities are found not to contain the <br /> amounts represented, or are found to be kept, offered or exposed <br /> for sale in violation of law, the sealer may order them off sale <br /> and may so mark or tag them as to show them to be illegal. In <br /> carrying out the provisions of this section, the sealer may <br /> employ recognized sampling procedures under which the compliance <br /> of a given lot of packages will be determined on the basis of the <br /> result obtained on a sample selected from and representative of <br /> such lot. No person shall sell or keep, offer or expose for sale <br /> in intrastate commerce any package or amount of commodity that <br /> has been ordered off sale or marked or tagged as provided in this <br /> section unless and until such package or amount of commodity has <br /> been brought into full compliance with all legal requirements, or <br /> dispose of any package or amount of commodity that has been <br /> ordered off sale or marked or tagged as provided in this section <br /> and that has not been brought into compliance with legal <br /> requirements, in any manner except with the specific approval of <br /> the sealer. <br /> Section 14 : Orders to restrain from use or sale. <br /> The sealer shall have the power to issue stop-use orders, <br /> stop-removal orders, and removal orders with respect to weights <br /> and measures being, or susceptible of being, commercially used, <br /> and to issue stop-removal orders and removal orders with respect <br /> to packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered or exposed <br /> for sale, sold, or in process of delivery, whenever in the course <br /> of the enforcement of the provisions of this ordinance it is <br /> deemed necessary or expedient to issue such orders, and no person <br /> shall use, remove from the premises specified, or fail to remove <br /> from the premises specified any weight, measure, or package or <br /> amount of commodity contrary to the terms of a stop-use order, <br /> stop-removal order, or removal order issued under the authority <br /> of this section. <br /> Section 15: Approval or disapproval of devices - Marking. <br /> 9 <br />