1. A person shall not:

(a) Except as otherwise provided in NRS 582.029, act as a public weighmaster without a valid license, including, without limitation:

(1) Assuming the title of public weighmaster or any similar title;

(2) Performing the duties or acts to be performed by a public weighmaster;

(3) Holding himself or herself out as a public weighmaster;

(4) Issuing any certificate of weights and measures, ticket, memorandum or statement for which a fee is charged; or

(5) Engaging in a full-time or part-time business of measuring for hire;

(b) Use or operate any device for purposes of certification that does not meet, or is not operated in accordance with, the provisions of chapter 581 of NRS and any regulations adopted pursuant thereto relating to the specifications, tolerances and other technical requirements for weighing and measuring devices;

(c) Falsify a certificate of weights and measures or falsely certify any gross, tare or net weight or measure required by this chapter to be on the certificate;

(d) Refuse without cause to weigh or measure any article or thing which is the person’s duty to weigh or measure, or refuse to state in any certificate anything required to be therein;

(e) Hinder or obstruct in any way the State Sealer of Consumer Equitability or an authorized agent thereof in the performance of the official duties of the State Sealer of Consumer Equitability under this chapter;

(f) Violate any provision of this chapter or any regulation adopted pursuant thereto;

(g) Delegate his or her authority to a person not licensed as a public weighmaster;

(h) Request a false certificate of weights and measures, or request a public weighmaster to weigh, measure or count property or produce, or a vehicle, commodity or any other article falsely or incorrectly;

(i) Issue a certificate simulating the certificate of weights and measures issued pursuant to this chapter; or

(j) Use or possess a device for weighing and measuring which has been altered to facilitate fraud.

2. A person who violates any provision of this section is, in addition to any criminal penalty that may be imposed, subject to a civil penalty in accordance with the schedule of civil penalties established by the State Sealer of Consumer Equitability pursuant to NRS 582.021.

(Added to NRS by 2003, 2324; A 2013, 2483)