A sealer or deputy may seize without a warrant weighing or measuring devices necessary to be used as evidence in cases of violation of the laws relative to the sealing thereof; and they shall be returned to the owners or forfeited, as the court directs.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 98, § 54
Seizure of weighing or measuring devices for evidence; disposition
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