§ 12718 Weighmaster Certificate Fraud

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. (Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 297, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1993.)