Business and Professions Code section 12718

Any person who does any of the following acts is guilty of a misdemeanor:

(a)

Requests any person to weigh, measure, or count any commodity falsely or incorrectly.

(b)

Requests a false or incorrect weighmaster certificate.

(c)

Furnishes or gives false information to a weighmaster for use in the completion of a weighmaster certificate.

(d)

Knowingly presents for payment a false weighmaster certificate.

(e)

Knowingly issues a weighmaster certificate giving thereon a false weight, measure, or count.

(f)

Alters a weighmaster certificate resulting in giving thereon a false weight, measure, or count.

(g)

Possesses unfilled or unused weighmaster certificate forms, if he or she is not a weighmaster.

(h)

Issues a weighmaster certificate that contains alterations or omissions of gross or tare weights, net only weights, or measurements.

Source: Section 12718, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=12718.­ (updated Jan. 1, 1993; accessed Jun. 18, 2026).

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