1. 1. No person shall engage in the business of public weighing or measuring for hire or award unless duly licensed by the Commissioner of Agriculture pursuant to the provisions of Section 39-11-10, Code of Laws for South Carolina, 1976.
2. 2. Public weighmaster licenses and deputy public weighmaster licenses shall be displayed in all places of business doing public weighing, measuring or counting for sale, purchase, hire or award.
3. 3. A weighmaster seal press shall be at each place of business that a public weighmaster or a deputy public weighmaster is weighing, measuring or counting for sale, purchase, hire or award.

4. 4. A certificate of weight, measurement or count shall be issued stating the following information:

   1. (A) Date of issuance;
   2. (B) Kind of property, produce, commodity or article weighed, measured or counted;
   3. (C) Name of the owner or agent of the owner or of the consignee of the material weighed, measured or counted;
   4. (D) Accurate weight, measurement or count of the material weighed, measured or counted;
   5. (E) Gross, tare and net weight when applicable;
   6. (F) Vehicle identity and such other available information as may be necessary to distinguish or identify the material being weighed, measured or counted from others of like kind;
   7. (G) Public Weighmaster number as assigned by the Commissioner of Agriculture;
   8. (H) Name and address of the company or individual by whom the weighmaster issuing the certificate is employed or the name and address of the weighmaster issuing the certificate;
   9. (I) Signature of the weighmaster or deputy weighmaster who conducted the weighing, measuring or counting.

HISTORY: Amended by State Register Volume 16, Issue No. 6, eff June 26, 1992; State Register Volume 18, Issue No. 5, eff May 27, 1994.