N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 195: Licensing of weighmasters; duties

§ 195. Licensing of weighmasters; duties. 1. No person shall act as a

weighmaster, issue or sign any weight tickets, or carry out any

functions of a weighmaster unless licensed pursuant to this section.

2. Upon application, a weighmaster's license may be issued by the

commissioner to an employee of a person, firm, partnership or

corporation whose business requires, by contract or otherwise, that

materials or commodities manufactured, produced, distributed, sold or

handled by such person, firm, partnership or corporation be weighed by a

licensed weighmaster; or such license may be issued to an individual

engaged in the weighing of materials or commodities. The applicant shall

furnish satisfactory evidence of good character and of ability to weigh

accurately and to make correct weight tickets. He shall also furnish

evidence that he owns, leases or has access to a stationary scale within

the state suitable for weighing the materials or commodities to be

weighed by him or that he is regularly employed by a person, firm,

partnership or corporation who owns, leases or has access to such a

scale which has been tested and sealed by the weights and measures

official charged with such duty. The applicant shall pay a fee of

fifteen dollars. A license shall be for a period not exceeding three

years and may be renewed in the discretion of the commissioner upon

payment of the fee aforesaid. Such license shall be kept at the place

where the weighmaster is engaged in weighing and shall be open to

inspection. An application may be denied or a license may be revoked by

the commissioner, after a hearing upon due notice to the applicant or

licensee, for dishonesty, incompetency, inaccuracy or a violation of the

provisions of this article or the rules and regulations adopted pursuant

thereto.

3. Each weight ticket issued by a weighmaster shall contain the date,

full signature and license number of the weighmaster.

4. Each weighmaster shall retain for a period of one year a copy of

every weight ticket he has issued.

5. No weighmaster shall make or issue a false or incorrect weight

ticket, nor shall any person solicit him to do so. No person shall

knowingly use a false or incorrect weight ticket. No weighmaster shall

permit any weight ticket to be issued or used which purports to bear his

signature and was not in fact signed by him, or which expresses a weight

not ascertained by him.