Title 47
Weights and Measures

Chapter 6
Hay Scales and Platform Balances

R.I. Gen. Laws § 47-6-2

§ 47-6-2. Use of unsealed scales.

Every person who shall keep hay scales or platform balances for public use, or shall weigh or suffer to be weighed in these scales or balances any article of merchandise, unless the scales or balances shall have been tried and sealed as provided in § 47-6-1, shall be fined one hundred dollars ($100).

History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 167, § 19; G.L. 1909, ch. 194, § 19; G.L. 1923, ch. 221, § 19; G.L. 1938, ch. 407, § 18; G.L. 1956, § 47-6-2.