Sec. 43-7. Arrest without warrant. Issuance of orders. Application of condemned tags.

The Commissioner of Weights and Measures, his inspectors and the municipal sealers of weights and measures shall each have power to arrest, without warrant, any violator of the laws relating to weights and measures, and to seize, without warrant, for use as evidence, any false or unsealed weight, measure or weighing or measuring device, or package or amount of any commodity, found to be used, retained, offered or exposed for sale or sold in violation of law. The commissioner, his inspectors and the municipal sealers may also issue stop use, hold and removal orders with respect to any such weights and measures commercially used and stop sale, hold and removal orders with respect to the weight or measure of any such packaged commodities or bulk commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale. Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes or regulations adopted thereunder, the commissioner and his inspectors may also issue stop use, hold and removal orders with respect to any weights and measures devices found to be defective or otherwise in violation of section 22a-174 or regulations adopted under said section. The commissioner, his inspectors and the municipal sealers of weights and measures may apply a condemned tag to any false weight, measure or weighing or measuring device or to any weighing or measuring instrument or device to which a sealer of weights and measures has attached a seal or tag which has been tampered with, marked, defaced, removed, forged or counterfeited.

(1949 Rev., S. 6751; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 60; P.A. 84-279, S. 3; P.A. 88-36; P.A. 95-332, S. 3.)

History: 1959 act deleted reference to county sealers and changed “city” to “municipal”; P.A. 84-279 allowed the application of a condemned tag to any measuring device which has been tampered with; P.A. 88-36 provided for the issuance of stop use, hold and removal orders with respect to weights and measures and of stop sale, hold and removal orders with respect to packaged or bulk commodities; P.A. 95-332 extended stop use, hold and removal powers to cover weights and measure devices found to be defective or otherwise in violation of Sec. 22a-174.