If any person uses any weights, measures, or beams, in weighing or measuring, which do not conform to the standards of the state, or any other measures established by law, whereby a dealer in, purchaser of, or seller of any commodity or article of traffic is injured or defrauded, such dealer, purchaser, or seller may maintain a civil action against the offender, and if judgment is rendered him, he shall receive double damages and costs of suit.
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 319.58
Use of false weights and measures
Effective: August 1, 1959; Latest Legislation: House Bill 152 - 103rd General Assembly
Official source: Ohio Laws & Administrative Rules (Legislative Service Commission). Reproduced from public-domain Ohio statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.