Section 4: Halls, markets and public weights

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.