Title 51, Title 51: STANDARDS, WEIGHTS, MEASURES AND CONTAINERS

51:1-79. Records of public weighings All public weighmasters shall keep and preserve accurate records for a period of six years of all public weighings, which records shall be available at all times for inspection by the State superintendent or any weights and measures officer. A…

51:1-8. Pound; avoirdupois; troy The standard avoirdupois pound, which shall be the standard for all commodities usually sold by weight, except gold, silver, jewels and drugs, shall contain seven thousand grains troy. The standard pound used in the sale of gold, silver, jewels an…

51:1-80. Penalties; requesting false weighing; false certificate or other violation by weighmaster Any person, who shall request a weighmaster to weigh any product, commodity, or article falsely or incorrectly, or who shall request a false or incorrect certificate of weight and m…

51:1-80.1. Weighing on scales outside state authorized The state superintendent of weights and measures may designate any weighmaster duly appointed under the provisions of sections 51:1-73 to 51:1-80 of this title, to weigh commodities on approved scales at points located not mo…

51:1-81. Weighing of live stock, hay and grain; report to owner; record Any weighmaster who shall for hire or reward weigh any live stock, hay or grain, shall on demand of the party interested, report the weight of such article in writing to the owner thereof and shall keep a rec…

51:1-82. Fraudulent report of weight; penalties; imprisonment; double damages; interstate carriers, inapplicable to Any person who owns, operates, keeps, or has in his possession, control or charge any scales, steelyards or weights who shall certify, declare, represent, render or…

51:1-82.1. State-owned scales; weighmasters The superintendent of the division of weights and measures in the Department of Law and Public Safety may, subject to the approval of the Attorney-General, appoint weighmasters within the division of weights and measures of the Departme…

51:1-83. Only sealed weights and measures to be used; violations resulting in injury voids contract No person shall buy or sell goods or service based on weight or measurement by the use of any weight or measure which has not been tested and sealed according to the provisions of …

51:1-84. Testing and sealing of all weights and measures; fee collection 51:1-84. a. All weights and measures used in trade shall be tested and sealed at least once in each year. Any superintendent shall also upon the request of any citizen, corporation, firm or other interested …

51:1-85. Tests made at request of owner; defective weights or measures; penalty Whenever any inspection of weights and measures has been made upon the request of the owner thereof, if they shall be found not to conform to the legal standard, the superintendent, or assistant super…

51:1-86 Tests; defective weights, etc.; additional penalty. 51:1-86. Upon the first official inspection of any weight or measure, except where the inspection is made upon the request of the owner thereof, if the deviation from the legal standard shall be of such nature as not to …

51:1-87. Refusal to seal weight, etc., easily arranged to defraud; review Any superintendent or assistant superintendent may decline to seal any weight or measure which is so constructed as to facilitate the perpetration of fraud. He shall report such act to the State superintend…

51:1-88. Examination mandated No person shall refuse to exhibit any weights, measures, packages, containers, weight certificates, delivery tickets, invoices or any other documents setting forth the quantity or value of any commodity or service to any weights and measures officer …

51:1-89. General penalty Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter for which a specific penalty has not been provided shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $100.00. Amended by L.1969, c. 251, s. 21, eff. Jan. 7, 1970.

51:1-9. Gallon; quart The standard gallon shall contain two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches. The standard liquid quart shall contain fifty-seven and seventy-five one-hundredths cubic inches.

51:1-90. Hindering official; penalty No person shall in any way or manner hinder or molest any superintendent, deputy superintendent, assistant superintendent, inspector, or other weights and measures officer in the performance of the duties imposed upon him by any of the provisi…

51:1-91. Changing weight or measure prohibited No person shall alter or change in any manner any weight or measure, or allow the same to be done, after the same has been tested and sealed or tested and condemned by any weights and measures officer under authority of law, so that …

51:1-93. Legal standard Every weight or measure sold, leased or delivered after sale to any person within the State for use in the purchase or sale of commodities or services, shall be of the legal standard as provided in this Title. Every person selling, leasing or delivering, o…

51:1-94. Retention of false weights, etc.; misdemeanor Any person who shall retain in his possession any weight, measure or container, knowing it to be false, unless it appears beyond a reasonable doubt that it was so retained without intent to use it to defraud or permit it to b…

51:1-95. Marking of short weights and tares; misdemeanor Any person who shall knowingly mark false or short weights or false tare on any container, or who shall knowingly sell or offer for sale any container so marked shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

51:1-96. Penalties for using false weights a. No person shall use, or cause to be used, or have in his possession: (1) a weight or measure found to be incorrect after having been theretofore duly tested and sealed; or (2) a false weight, measure or other apparatus for the measure…

51:1-97. Illegal weighing activities; penalties a. No person shall: (1) Sell or expose for sale less than the quantity represented of a commodity or service; (2) Take any more of the quantity represented of any commodity or service, when, as a buyer, he furnishes the weight or me…

51:1-98. Deviations; scale of penalties Any deviation from the standards prescribed in this chapter, either in weights or measures or in containers in which any commodity is sold or offered for sale, which shall exceed by more than three times the allowable error determined by th…

51:1-99.1. Prior violations not included No conviction of a violation of Title 51 of the Revised Statutes prior to the effective date of this 1986 amendatory and supplementary act shall be considered for the purpose of assessing a penalty for a second or subsequent offense pursua…

51:3-1. Pillars showing true meridian; verification of meridian line 51:3-1. The board of chosen freeholders of each county shall erect, and properly inclose and protect at public spots, adjacent to the courthouse of the county, two substantial pillars on the same meridian line a…

51:3-10. Reliance wholly on system not required Nothing in this article contained shall be interpreted as requiring any purchaser or mortgagee to rely on a description based wholly upon the aforesaid system.

51:3-2. Custody of pillars and inclosure; free access thereto The said pillars and inclosure shall be subject to the custody of the county clerk. Any surveyor of lands, or civil engineer, residing in said county, or engaged in surveying therein, shall have free access thereto for…

51:3-3. Injuring pillars; misdemeanor Any person who shall willfully erase, alter, deface, displace, destroy, carry away or otherwise injure any such pillar or inclosure, or any part thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction thereof, he shall for each offense be …

51:3-4. Variation of compass; testing; certificate; filing; fees Every surveyor engaged in surveying land within this state, shall test and note the actual variation of his compass from the true meridian line at least once in each year. He shall deposit a copy of his notes with t…

51:3-5. Penalty for violation; recovery Every surveyor, who shall neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of section 51:3-4 of this title, shall for each offense, be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars to be recovered with costs, by the board of chosen freeholders or by …

51:3-6. Salem and Cumberland counties L.1869, c. 228, p. 566, entitled "Supplement to the act to establish a meridian line standard in the several counties of this state," approved March twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, saved from repeal. [This act requir…

51:3-7. Official survey base established; plane co-ordinates 51:3-7. The official survey base for New Jersey shall be a system of plane co-ordinates to be known as the New Jersey system of plane co-ordinates, said system being defined as a transverse Mercator projection of the Ge…

51:3-8. Connecting property surveys with system of co-ordinates 51:3-8. Any triangulation or traverse station established as described in section 51:3-7 of this title shall be used in establishing a connection between a property survey and the above-mentioned system of rectangula…

51:3-9. Indorsement of surveys No survey of lands hereinafter made shall have indorsed thereon any legend or other statement indicating that it is based upon the New Jersey system of plane co-ordinates unless the co-ordinates have been established on that system as herein defined…

51:4-1. Deception in sale of liquid fuels and oils prohibited; certain marks allowed No person, firm, partnership, association or corporation, their agents and servants, shall store, expose or offer for sale, or sell, or aid or assist in the sale of, any liquid fuel, lubricating …

51:4-10. Adulterated turpentine or spirits of turpentine to be so labeled No person shall manufacture, mix for sale, offer or expose for sale, have in possession with intent to sell, or sell under the name of turpentine or spirits of turpentine any article not wholly distilled fr…

51:4-11. Linseed oil must be commercially pure linseed or flaxseed products No person shall sell under the name of raw linseed oil any article which is not wholly the product of commercially pure linseed or flaxseed.

51:4-12. Boiled linseed oil No person shall sell under the name of boiled linseed oil or boiled oil, any article unless the oil from which said article was made be wholly the product of commercially pure linseed or flaxseed, and unless the same has been heated to at least two hun…

51:4-13. Adulterated linseed oil to be labeled Compounds, mixtures and preparations of raw or boiled linseed oil to which some other substance has been added may be manufactured, mixed and sold only in packages or containers plainly marked in solid letters not less than two inche…

51:4-14. Purchaser of adulterated turpentine or linseed oil to be informed No person shall sell or deliver adulterated spirits of turpentine, adulterated raw linseed oil or adulterated boiled linseed oil without informing the purchaser at the time of sale that the article is not …

51:4-15. Penalties Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall be liable to a penalty of $100.00 for the first offense, to a penalty of $200.00 for the second offense, and to a penalty of $500.00 for each subsequent offense. Amended by L.1969, c. 251, s. 29, …

51:4-16. Enforcement; inspection; recovery of penalties The state department of health shall enforce the provisions of this article. All its inspectors shall have free access to all places, where spirits of turpentine or raw or boiled linseed oil are manufactured, mixed, stored, …

51:4-2. Violations; punishment Any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation, or any servant, agent or employee thereof, who shall violate section 51:4-1 of this Title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and for a first offense shall be punishable by a fine of not less t…

51:4-23 Definitions. 1. As used in this act: "Building materials" means lumber, wood and wood product materials regulated by the Superintendent of the Office of Weights and Measures pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1968, c.222 (C.51:4-27) and used in connection with the construction,…

51:4-24. Compliance with act required for lawful sale It shall be unlawful for any dealer to sell, sell and deliver, offer or advertise for sale to consumers by the use of any media, building materials, in this State except in accordance with the provisions of this act. L.1968, c…

51:4-25 License. 3. It shall be unlawful for any dealer to engage in the business of selling or selling and delivering building materials, to a consumer for use in this State unless he shall have obtained from the Office of Weights and Measures a license to engage in said busines…