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CHAPTER 112: COAL DEALERS SECTION 112.01 Scope of Chapter 112.06 Misrepresentation 112.07 Mixing Fuels 112.08 Delivery Tickets; Records 112.09 Weighing Coal 112.99 Penalty 112.01 SCOPE
OF CHAPTER This chapter does not apply to the sale of fuel, to recognized and regularly licensed coal dealers in carload lots, nor to the sale of fuel in carload lots to industries,
institutions, firms, individuals, or other purchasers that receive delivery for their own use and consumption. This chapter shall not apply to a manufacturer or other employer of labor
who sells coal to any of his employees. (‘72 Code, 36.01) (Ord. 1016-1932) 112.06 MISREPRESENTATION It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale or delivery, any fuel
by any name which is not the true, usual, and customary name of the fuel, or in doing so to misrepresent to the purchaser the state where it is mined, or the name, number of the district,
mine, or seam from which it was mined, or the size of the lumps composing the coal or fuel, or the the character of its preparation, or as to whether it is shoveled or forked lump or
egg, nut, pea, mine run, slack, or screenings. (‘72 Code, 36.05) (Ord. 1016-1932) 112.07 MIXING FUELS It shall be unlawful for any person to substitute or mix fuels, or to cause the
substitution or mixing of fuels, except when the fuel has been sold as such and is clearly understood by the purchaser, and clearly indicated on the delivery ticket. (‘72 Code, 36.06)
(Ord. 1016-1932) Penalty, see 112.99 112.08 DELIVERY TICKETS; RECORDS Every licensee operating under this chapter shall compute the delivery ticket weight by using the last tare weight
of deliver equipment, taken at least once a day of every day of dry weather and twice a day in rainy or wet weather. The daily record of tare weights of equipment shall be kept for reference
by the dealer covering a period of the past ten days at all times. Dealers daily tare weight records of hauling equipment shall be
subject to inspection by the Inspector of Weights and Measures or his deputies. (‘72 Code, 36.07) (Ord. 1016-1932) 112.09 WEIGHING COAL (a) Any person retaining coal in the city shall
send with each load a certificate showing, separately, the weight of the vehicle, and the weight of the coal. The certificate shall be signed by the person selling the coal and shall
be delivered with the load of coal to the purchaser. (b) Before the unloading or discharging of any load of coal on or near the premises of the proposed purchaser, the purchaser or the
Inspector of Weights and Measures may demand of the seller or his agent, driver, or other person in charge of the load, a certificate of weight, as herein provided for. The seller, agent,
driver, or other person shall surrender the certificate to the purchaser or the Inspector, who may, if he doubts the correctness of the certificate require the seller, agent, driver,
or other person to reweigh any load of coal at any suitable scales in the city. The purchaser or Inspector shall pay the keeper of the scales for weighing the same. (‘72 Code, 36.08)
(Ord. passed 1-19-03) 112.99 PENALTY Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall, on conviction for the first offense, be fined in any sum not to exceed $100. For the
second or any subsequent offense, be fined not less than $25 nor more than $200, and in case of the second or any subsequent violation the person’s license under this chapter may, in
the discretion of the court, be revoked. (‘72 Code, 36.09) (Ord. 1016-1932)