75-27-321 - Improper use of title of licensed weighmaster, etc.; suspension or revocation of license; falsification of weight or measurement certificate; penalties. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 75-27-321. Improper use of title of licensed weighmaster, etc.; suspension or revocation of license; falsification of weight or measurement certificate; penalties.
 

(1)  No person shall assume the title of licensed weighmaster, or any title of similar import, perform the duties or acts to be performed by a licensed weighmaster under this article, hold himself or herself out as a licensed weighmaster, issue any weight certificate, ticket, memorandum or statement for which a fee is charged, or engage in the full-time or part-time business of public weighing, unless he or she holds a valid license as a bonded weighmaster. 

(2)  The commissioner is authorized to suspend or revoke the license of any bonded weighmaster (a) when he is satisfied, after a hearing upon ten (10) days' notice to the licensee, said licensee has violated any provision of this regulation, or (b) when a bonded weighmaster has been convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of violating any provision of this regulation. 

(3)  Any person who requests a bonded weighmaster to weigh or measure any property, produce, commodity or article falsely or incorrectly, or who requests a false or incorrect weight or measurement certificate, or any person who issues a weight or measurement certificate simulating the weight or measurement certificate prescribed in this article and who is not a bonded weighmaster, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

(4)  Any bonded weighmaster who falsifies a weight or measurement certificate, or who delegates his authority to any person not licensed as a bonded weighmaster, or who preseals a weight or measurement certificate with his official seal before performing the act of weighing or measuring, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

(5)  Any person who violates any provision of this article or any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto for which no specific penalty had been provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1982, ch. 430, § 11, eff from and after July 1, 1982.