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      Sec. 43-48. Notice of repairs, adjustments, sales and deliveries. Security. Every dealer or repairman, within forty-eight hours after the making of a repair or adjustment or after the sale and delivery of a new, repaired, rebuilt, exchanged or used weighing or measuring device, shall notify, in writing, the Commissioner of Consumer Protection, giving the name and address of the person, firm, copartnership, corporation or association for whom such repair or adjustment has been made, or to whom such weighing or measuring device has been sold or delivered. The dealer or repairman shall make a written statement that the same has been so altered, rebuilt, repaired and installed as to conform to state specifications, tolerances and regulations. Every dealer or repairman shall affix a security seal, in a manner that requires the security seal to be broken before an adjustment can be made, to any component affecting the performance of any electronic or mechanical device designed to be sealed with a security seal. Each such seal shall bear the identification number issued to such dealer or repairman by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection at the time of registration.

      (February, 1965, P.A. 426, S. 3; P.A. 90-125, S. 11; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)

      History: P.A. 90-125 required dealers and repairmen to affix security seals to weighing or measuring devices; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.