Every municipality shall have power to provide for the inspection, weighing, and measuring of articles of merchandise and fuel and for the places and manner of weighing and measuring the same, and to establish city scales, and to appoint weighers and inspectors.

Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, § 1, subdiv 39; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 39; SL 1913, ch 119, § 53, subdiv 39; RC 1919, § 6169 (68); SL 1919, ch 275; SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (59).