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Rev. 1987 618.120 Stop-Use, Stop-Removal and Removal Orders. The Supervisor shall have the power to issue stop-use orders, stop-removal orders, and removal orders with respect to weights and measures being, or susceptible of being, commercially used, and to issue stop-removal orders and removal orders with respect to packages or amount of commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale, sold, or in process of delivery, whenever in the course of enforcement of the provisions of this ordinance, making it necessary or expedient to issue such orders. 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. 618.130 Regulations - Effect - Contents. That the Supervisor shall issue from time to time reasonable regulations for the enforcement of the provisions of this Chapter, which regulations shall have the force and effect of law. These regulations may include standards of net weight, measure, or count, and reasonable standards of fill, for any commodity in package form, rules governing the technical and reporting procedures to be followed, and the report and record forms and marks of approval and rejection to be used by inspectors and sealers of weights and measures in the discharge of their official duties, exceptions from the sealing or marking requirements of Section 618.140 of this Ordinance with respect to weights and measures of such character or size that such sealing or marking would be inappropriate, impracticable, or damaging to the apparatus in question, and with respect to classes of weights and measures found to be of such character that annual retesting is unnecessary to continued accuracy. 618.140 Approval and Rejection of Weights and Measures, Marking -- Seizure and Destruction. The Supervisor shall approve for use and seal or mark with appropriate devices, such weights and measures as he finds upon inspection and tests to be: "correct" as defined in Section 618.070 of this Chapter, and shall reject and mark or tag as: "incorrect" such weights and measures as he finds, upon inspection or test, to be "incorrect", as defined in Section 618.070 of this Chapter, but which in his best judgement are susceptible of satisfactory repair; provided that such sealing or marking shall not be required with respect to such weights and measures as may be exempted therefrom by a regulation of the Supervisor issued under the authority of Section 618.130 of this Chapter. The Supervisor shall condemn, and may seize and may destroy, weights and measures found to be incorrect and that, in his best judgement, are not susceptible of satisfactory repair. Weights and measures that have been rejected may be confiscated and may be destroyed by the Supervisor if not corrected as required by Section 618.150 of this Chapter or [fused or disposed of contrary to the requirements of Section 618.150 of this Chapter. WTAO(Rev)-5