Art 11 prec Div 53 - Weights and Measures - Illinois Statutes

      (65 ILCS 5/Art 11 prec Div 53 heading)
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

      (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 53 heading)DIVISION 53. INSPECTION AND USE OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

(65 ILCS 5/11‑53‑1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑53‑1)     Sec. 11‑53‑1. The corporate authorities of each municipality may provide for and regulate the inspection, weighing, and measuring of brick, lumber, firewood, coal, hay, and any article of merchandise of the same kind. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11‑53‑2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑53‑2)     Sec. 11‑53‑2. The corporate authorities of each municipality may provide for the inspection and sealing of weights and measures. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11‑53‑3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑53‑3)     Sec. 11‑53‑3. The corporate authorities of each municipality may require the keeping and use of proper weights and measures by vendors. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11‑53‑4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑53‑4)     Sec. 11‑53‑4. The corporate authorities of each municipality may require all grain, flour, meal, hay, feed, seeds, fruits, nuts, vegetables and non‑liquid vegetable products, meats and non‑liquid animal products, fish, butter, cheese and other similar dairy products, dry groceries and all other similar articles of merchandise, or any particular class or classes of the specified merchandise, in the absence of a contract or agreement in writing to the contrary, to be sold by standard avoirdupois weight or by numerical count. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)