T18CH72

Title 18 > T18CH72

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18-7206

TITLE 18 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS CHAPTER 72 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 18-7206. Use of fraudulent scales for ore. Every person, association or corporation, or the agent of any person, association or corporation, engaged in the business of milling, sampling, concentrating, reducing, shipping or purchasing ores, who keeps or uses any false or fraudulent scales or weights for weighing ores, who keeps or uses any false or fraudulent assay scales or weights for ascertaining the assay value of ore, knowing them to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is punishable by a fine in any sum not exceeding $1000, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not more than one year nor less than one month, or by both such fine and imprisonment. History: [18-7206, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 980.]

18-7207

TITLE 18 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS CHAPTER 72 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 18-7207. Alteration of ore values. Every person, corporation or association, or the agent of any person, corporation or association, engaged in milling, sampling, concentrating, reducing, shipping or purchasing ores in this state, who in any manner knowingly alters or changes the true value of any ores delivered to him or them, so as to deprive the seller of the result of the correct value of the same, or who issues any bill of sale or certificate of purchase that does not exactly and truthfully state the actual weight, assay value and total amount paid for any lot or lots of ore purchased, or who, by any secret understanding or agreement with another, issues a bill of sale or certificate of purchase that does not exactly and truthfully state the actual weight, assay value and total amount paid for any lot or lots of ore purchased, or who, by any secret understanding or agreement with another, issues a bill of sale or certificate of purchase that does not truthfully and correctly set forth the weight, assay value and total amount paid for any lot or lots of ore purchased by him, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished as provided in the preceding section. History: [18-7207, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 980.]