Title 47
Weights and Measures

Chapter 7
Public Weighers

R.I. Gen. Laws § 47-7-2

§ 47-7-2. Sale of merchandise without certificate from weigher.

Every person who shall sell coal or other merchandise without its being first weighed by a weigher provided for in § 47-7-1, when the weighing shall be demanded by the purchaser, and procuring a certificate of the weight for the purchaser, shall be fined twenty dollars ($20.00) for each offense.

History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 167, § 22; P.L. 1899, ch. 611, § 2; G.L. 1909, ch. 164, § 22; G.L. 1923, ch. 221, § 22; G.L. 1938, ch. 407, § 21; G.L. 1956, § 47-7-2.