{"data":{"id":"us-ca/bpc-12024.3","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"BPC § 12024.3","heading":"","body":"(a) For commodities prepackaged and sold or offered for sale on the same premises, a violation of Section 12024 is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding one year, or by both, if any of the following occurs:\n(1) The violation is willful.\n(2) The total monetary value of the shortage, calculated on the basis of the average error of an individual lot, exceeds two dollars ($2), as determined pursuant to regulations adopted pursuant to Section 12211.\n(3) The total monetary value of shortages, calculated on the basis of the average error of each individual lot, as determined from a sample of packages selected pursuant to regulations adopted pursuant to Section 12211, within all lots found to be in violation of Section 12024 at a single location, exceeds ten dollars ($10).\n(b) For commodities prepackaged and sold or offered for sale on the same premises, a violation of Section 12024 is an infraction, punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100), if the violation is of less monetary value than that specified in subdivision (a) and it is not willful.","path":["Business and Professions Code - BPC","DIVISION 5. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES [12001. - 13800.]","CHAPTER 1. General Provisions [12001. - 12027.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"194899f0ae0b7027b55e9906ca7041fba67cecc7fe6d1aca8f9ac705229c62b9","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/bpc-12024.2","next":"us-ca/bpc-12024.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}