Sec. 472.7. Weighing of vehicles

Tax Law, § 509, subds. 3, 5

(a) Mobile weighing units will be established at various points within the State to enforce the provisions of article 21 of the Tax Law and to verify the maximum gross weight and unloaded weight of motor vehicles subject to the law. Every vehicular unit which is required to have a permit and any motor vehicle, as defined in section 125 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, having a gross weight in excess of 16,000 pounds, must stop at each mobile unit when so directed.

(b) The State Tax Commission is empowered to seize revoked, suspended or improperly used highway use tax permits and plates or to direct peace officers or employees of the Department of Taxation and Finance to do so.