Bus. & Prof. Code, § 12718 · Chapter 7. Weighmasters
Bus. & Prof. Code, § 12718
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Any person who does any of the following acts is guilty of a misdemeanor:
(a) Requests any person to weigh, measure, or count any commodity falsely or incorrectly.
(b) Requests a false or incorrect weighmaster certificate.
(c) Furnishes or gives false information to a weighmaster for use in the completion of a weighmaster certificate.
(d) Knowingly presents for payment a false weighmaster certificate.
(e) Knowingly issues a weighmaster certificate giving thereon a false weight, measure, or count.
(f) Alters a weighmaster certificate resulting in giving thereon a false weight, measure, or count.
(g) Possesses unfilled or unused weighmaster certificate forms, if he or she is not a weighmaster.
(h) Issues a weighmaster certificate that contains alterations or omissions of gross or tare weights, net only weights, or measurements.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 297, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1993.
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