Section 20-601
§ 20-601 License required. It shall be unlawful for any person to
engage in or conduct the business of dealing in, trading in, selling,
receiving or repairing condemned, rebuilt or used weighing or measuring
devices without a permit therefor.
Section 20-602
§ 20-602 Application for permit. a. Any person before engaging in such
business shall file a written application with the commissioner for such
permit, stating in such application the location of the place in which
such business is to be conducted.
b. Such application shall be in the form prescribed by such
commissioner.
c. Such permit shall be granted only to a person of the age of
eighteen years or over.
Section 20-603
§ 20-603 Permit; fee. a. After the filing of such an application, and
investigation thereof duly made, the commissioner, if he or she approves
of such application, may issue a permit conditioned upon compliance with
the provisions of this subchapter and with the rules and regulations of
any city agency applicable to such permittee.
b. The fee for such permit for a year, or any portion thereof, shall
be sixty dollars, and shall be payable upon the filing of such
application.
c. Such permit shall expire on the twenty-eighth day of February next
succeeding the date of issuance thereof.
Section 20-604
§ 20-604 Notice as to repaired devices. Every person engaged in the
business of dealing in, trading in, selling, receiving or repairing
condemned, rebuilt or used weighing or measuring devices, within five
days after the making of a repair, or the sale and delivery of a
repaired, rebuilt, or used weighing or measuring device, shall serve
notice in writing on the commissioner giving the name and address of the
person for whom such repair has been made, or to whom a repaired,
rebuilt or used weighing or measuring device has been sold or delivered,
and shall include a statement that such device has been so altered,
rebuilt or repaired as to conform to the standard specifications and
regulations of such department.
Section 20-605
§ 20-605 Condemned devices; return of tags. Any person who accepts
weighing or measuring devices in trade for others shall remove the
condemned tags from those devices which have been condemned by the
department and which are intended for dismantling or destruction. Such
tags shall be returned to the department within five days thereafter,
with a statement describing the weighing or measuring device, giving the
name and address of the person from whom it was received, and a
statement to the effect that it has been dismantled or destroyed.
Section 20-606
§ 20-606 Records. a. Every person duly registered pursuant to the
provisions of this subchapter shall maintain a book or register in which
the following information shall be kept:
1. The name and address of every person for whom weighing or measuring
devices are repaired;
2. The name and address of every person to whom a repaired, rebuilt,
or used weighing or measuring device has been sold or delivered.
b. Such books shall be open for inspection at all reasonable times to
any police officer, inspector or person duly authorized by the
commissioner, or by any judge of the criminal court of the city of New
York.
Section 20-607
§ 20-607 Comparison of testing equipment. All persons dealing in,
trading in, selling, receiving or repairing condemned, rebuilt or used
weighing or measuring devices, shall submit their testing equipment at
least once a year, to the testing station of the department for
comparison and calibration with the prime standards maintained by such
department, after which the department shall issue to such person a
statement or certificate of its findings.
Section 20-608
§ 20-608 Violations. Any person violating any of the provisions of
this subchapter, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined a sum of not
more than one hundred dollars for each offense, or by imprisonment not
exceeding ten days, or by both, and, in the discretion of the
commissioner, shall be liable to have his or her permit suspended,
revoked or cancelled.
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