Section 215.7. Transactions by false weights or measures.

  A person shall be deemed to have violated the provisions of this chapter and shall be punished as provided in chapter 189, if any of the following apply:

  1.  The person sells, trades, delivers, charges for, or claims to have delivered to a purchaser an amount of any commodity which is less in weight or measure than that which is asked for, agreed upon, claimed to have been delivered, or noted on the delivery ticket.

  2.  The person makes a settlement for or enters a credit, based upon any false weight or measurement, for any commodity purchased.

  3.  The person makes a settlement for or enters a credit, based upon any false weight or measurement, for any labor where the price of producing or mining is determined by weight or measure.

  4.  The person records a false weight or measurement upon the weight ticket or book.

[SS15, §3009-j; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3272; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §215.7]

2012 Acts, ch 1095, §140

; 2013 Acts, ch 90, §41