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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64535</law_id><section_number>3.2-5617</section_number><catch_line>Powers and duties of sealers and deputies</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Food and Drink; Weights and Measures</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="56">Weights and Measures</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">sealer</span> of a city or of a county, and his deputy when acting under his instructions and at his direction, shall have the same powers and shall perform the same duties within the city or the county for which appointed as are granted to and imposed upon the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> by &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Testing and inspection of weights and measures offered for sale or commercially used" href="/3.2-5609/">3.2-5609</a>, <a class="law" title="Investigations by Commissioner" href="/3.2-5610/">3.2-5610</a>, <a class="law" title="Commissioner to weigh or measure packages and commodities; packages and commodities ordered off sale" href="/3.2-5611/">3.2-5611</a>, <a class="law" title="Stop-sale, stop-use and stop-removal orders; seizure and impounding of commodities, weights or measures; violation a misdemeanor; judicial review" href="/3.2-5612/">3.2-5612</a>, <a class="law" title="Sealing or marking of weights and measures; condemnation of incorrect weights and measures" href="/3.2-5613/">3.2-5613</a>, <a class="law" title="Police powers of Commissioner" href="/3.2-5614/">3.2-5614</a>, and <a class="law" title="Commissioner to have concurrent authority with sealers; ordinances in conflict with chapter" href="/3.2-5619/">3.2-5619</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 3-708.21, 59-90; 1962, c. 298; 1966, c. 702, &#xA7; 3.1-939; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
