(1) In each tobacco warehouse, redryer, prize room, or company, all pieces of each type of equipment used for transporting baskets of tobacco during a weighing operation in which the quantity value of the tobacco in the basket is determined shall be of uniform weight. In any case where the equipment being used for that purpose is not the property of the warehouse, redryer, prize room, or company in which the weighing operation is taking place, the weighman shall use the same tare as that set by the Division of Regulation and Inspection. In every weighing operation involving the same basket, the basket tare shall be the same as that originally determined by the Division of Regulation and Inspection.
(2) Every tobacco warehouse, redryer, prize room, or company weighing tobacco for commercial purposes shall post a copy of this law in a conspicuous place in the scale office.
Effective: July 15, 2002
History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 49, sec. 3, effective July 15, 2002. — Created
1956 Ky. Acts ch. 56, secs. 1 and 2, effective May 18, 1956.