Section 4118 - Stop-use, stop-removal and removal orders

3 PA Cons Stat § 4118 (2019) (N/A)
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(a) Orders.--The department shall have the power to issue stop-use orders, stop-removal orders and removal orders with respect to weights and measures being commercially used and to issue stop-removal orders and removal orders with respect to packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered or exposed for sale, sold or in the process of delivery, whenever, in the course of the department's enforcement of the provisions of this subchapter, the department deems it necessary or expedient to issue such orders.

(b) Prohibitions.--No person shall use, remove from the premises specified or fail to remove from the premises specified any weight, measure or package or amount of commodity contrary to the terms of a stop-use order, stop-removal order or removal order issued under the authority of this section.

(c) Appeal.--Whenever an aggrieved person shall appeal or seek to enjoin enforcement of any order issued by the department pursuant to this section, such proceeding shall be brought in the court of common pleas of the judicial district in which the weight, measure or commodity was located at the time of the issuance of the department's order.

Cross References. Section 4118 is referred to in sections 4121, 4122 of this title.