§ 8A-88. Same—Police powers; right of entry and stoppage.

With respect to the enforcement of this article and any other ordinance or State statute dealing with false advertising, consumer protection, trade standards and weights and measures that he is, or may be, empowered to enforce, the Director of the Miami-Dade Police Department may deputize the Director of the Trade Standards Department and his inspectors. When so deputized the Director is vested with special police powers, and is authorized to arrest any violator of the said ordinances or statutes, and to seize and impound as material evidence, any incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts or packages of commodity used, retained, offered or exposed for sale, or sold in violation of law. In the performance of his official duties, the Director is authorized upon probable cause to enter and go into or upon, any structure or premises, and to stop any violating person and require him to proceed, to such place within the County as the Director or his authorized inspector may specify.

(Ord. No. 68-52, § 13, 9-19-68)