{"data":{"id":"us-ca/bpc-12718","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"BPC § 12718","heading":"","body":"Any person who does any of the following acts is guilty of a misdemeanor:\n(a) Requests any person to weigh, measure, or count any commodity falsely or incorrectly.\n(b) Requests a false or incorrect weighmaster certificate.\n(c) Furnishes or gives false information to a weighmaster for use in the completion of a weighmaster certificate.\n(d) Knowingly presents for payment a false weighmaster certificate.\n(e) Knowingly issues a weighmaster certificate giving thereon a false weight, measure, or count.\n(f) Alters a weighmaster certificate resulting in giving thereon a false weight, measure, or count.\n(g) Possesses unfilled or unused weighmaster certificate forms, if he or she is not a weighmaster.\n(h) Issues a weighmaster certificate that contains alterations or omissions of gross or tare weights, net only weights, or measurements.","path":["Business and Professions Code - BPC","DIVISION 5. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES [12001. - 13800.]","CHAPTER 7. Weighmasters [12700. - 12737.]"],"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":"5eea7149694cb7b237080dc6936dbf3e02764cfc43a5fefd1657883ebe5ff268","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/bpc-12717","next":"us-ca/bpc-12718.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}