New Jersey § 51:8-12

§ 51:8-12.

It shall be unlawful for any person to make or issue a weight certificate for solid

fuel unless certified as a weighmaster by the superintendent of the department under

the provisions of sections 51:1-73 to 51:1-80 of this title, and duly designated by said superintendent to weigh solid fuel in

accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and a public weigher shall not be

permitted to weigh solid fuel unless designated to do so under the provisions of this

chapter. Application for a certificate of designation shall be made upon a form prescribed

by the superintendent; the applicant shall furnish satisfactory evidence of good

moral character and of ability to weigh accurately, and to make correct weight certificates,

and shall indicate the place where the applicant shall perform his function as a weighmaster

designated to weigh solid fuel and the type and capacity of the scale or scales to

be used by the applicant. When the applicant is an equipped dealer or an employee of an equipped dealer having

two or more yards, he may be designated to weigh upon any or all of the scales in

the said yard or yards. No certificate of designation shall be issued to any applicant unless he is the

owner or lessee of the scales at the place designated in his application, or a bona

fide employee of the owner or lessee of such scales; provided, however, that not

more than three certificates of designation shall be issued for the same scale, unless

the superintendent in his discretion deems it advisable that more than three persons

shall be designated to weigh solid fuel on said scale. The period of the certificate of designation to weigh solid fuel shall run concurrently

with the term of the applicant as weighmaster and shall expire on the date of the

expiration of said term. Each certificate of designation shall be kept at the place where the weighmaster

is engaged in weighing solid fuel and shall be open to inspection, and shall state

the type, capacity and location of the scale or scales upon which he is designated

to weigh solid fuel. Upon notice to a weighmaster, his certificate of designation may be revoked by the

superintendent of the department, after hearing, for dishonesty, incompetency, inaccuracy

or for any violation of the provisions of this chapter, or for any misrepresentation

in his application for the said certificate; and the said certificate shall become

invalid when for any reason he is no longer employed at the place of weighing for

which the certificate was issued. In any case where a certificate of designation has been revoked any person shall be

authorized to substitute, at the place for which said revocation was made, another

weighmaster in his employ and duly designated as such under the provisions of this

chapter, pending disposition by the superintendent of the department of a new application

for designation of a new applicant as weighmaster to weigh solid fuel at the place

for which the certificate of designation has been revoked; provided, that the said

new application must be forwarded to the superintendent of the department within five

days of the substitution of another weighmaster designated to weigh solid fuel. In case of the death, absence or inability to act of a weighmaster designated to weigh

solid fuel, any person may substitute for such deceased or absent weighmaster another

weighmaster in his employ and duly designated as such under the provisions of this

chapter; provided, that immediate notice of such substitution 1 be reported by said person to the superintendent of the department and that any such

substitution shall not be authorized to continue as weighmaster at the place of substitution

for a period in excess of thirty days unless with the written consent of the superintendent

of the department. 1

Probably should read “substitute.”