Any person, association, or corporation, or the agent of any person, association, or corporation, engaged in the business of milling, sampling, concentrating, reducing, shipping, or purchasing ores who keeps or uses any false or fraudulent scales or weights for weighing ore, or who keeps or uses any false or fraudulent assay scales or weights for ascertaining the assay value of ore, knowing them to be false, commits a class 2 misdemeanor.Amended by 2021 Ch. 462, §610, eff. 3/1/2022.G.L. § 1962. G.S. § 2511. R.S. 08: § 4240. C.L. § 3354. CSA: C. 110, § 247. CRS 53: § 92-30-2. C.R.S. 1963: § 92-30-2. L. 2021: Entire section amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 3275, p. 3275, § 610, effective 3/1/2022.Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022. 2021 Ch. 462, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3). For penalty for use or possession of false weights or measures, see §18-5-301 .
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