Communes may set up public weighing, measuring and gauging offices where anyone may have their goods weighed and gauged on payment of a fee. Recourse to these offices is compulsory only in the event of a dispute.
No person may perform the duties of weigher, measurer and gauge without taking an oath. The oath shall be received by the president of the commercial court or the judge of the judicial court.
In localities where it is not necessary to establish public weights, the duties of weigher, measurer and gauge may be entrusted by the representative of the State in the department to citizens of recognised probity and ability, who shall take an oath.
No person other than these employees or servants may, within the precincts of the markets, halls and ports, exercise the profession of weigher, measurer and gauge, on pain of confiscation of the instruments intended for measurement. The precincts of these markets, halls and ports shall be determined and designated in an apparent manner by the mayor.
Those to whom the offices or functions of public weigher or measurer are entrusted are obliged to keep the markets, halls and ports equipped with the instruments necessary for the exercise of their functions and to have employees in sufficient numbers. If they fail to do so, the police will provide for them at their own expense and they will be dismissed.
Public weighers and measurers issue to those who request it a bulletin recording the result of their operation.
Infidelity in the weights used for public weighing is punishable by the penalties laid down in article L. 213-4 of the French Consumer Code.
I.-Without prejudice to the provisions of article 23 of law no. 46-628 of 8 April 1946 on the nationalisation of electricity and gas, local and regional authorities or their public cooperation establishments, as licensing authorities for the public distribution of electricity and gas pursuant to article 6 of the loi du 15 juin 1906 sur les distributions d’énergie et de article 36 of the aforementioned law no. 46-628 of 8…
Subject to the authorisation provided for in Article 7 of the aforementioned Law no. 2000-108 of 10 February 2000, the municipalities, within their territory, and the public cooperation establishments, within the territory of the municipalities that are members of them, may, in addition to the possibilities opened up by the twelfth and thirteenth paragraphs of Article 8 of Law no. 46-628 of the aforementioned 8 April 1946, develop, operate, have…
As part of the public distribution of electricity, and subject to the authorisation provided for in Article 7 of Law no. 2000-108 du 10 février 2000 précitée, les autorités concédantes de la distribution d’électricité visées au I de l’article L. 2224-31 may develop, operate directly or have operated by their electricity distribution concessionaire any local electricity production facility with a capacity below a threshold set by decree, when this facility…
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