2021 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 83 - Weights And Measures
Article 3 - Scales
83-301 Definitions.

83-301. Definitions.
As used in K.S.A. 83-301 through 83-325, and amendments thereto:

(a) "Weighing and measuring device" means any scales, liquefied petroleum gas meter or vehicle tank meter used for commercial weighing or measuring of commodities;

(b) "person" means any individual, agent or employee of a service company, partnership, association, corporation or governmental agency;

(c) "place of business" means any location from which a scale testing and service company, or one or more representatives or employees thereof, sell and perform services for the purpose of testing, repairing, adjusting or calibrating scales;

(d) "technical representative" means an individual who conducts any of the following: Installs, repairs, adjusts, calibrates or certifies the accuracy of, a weighing and measuring device;

(e) "secretary" means the secretary of agriculture or an authorized representative of the secretary;

(f) "service company" means a company which is in the business of any of the following: Installing, examining, calibrating, testing, repairing or adjusting weighing and measuring devices but such term does not include a technical representative unless the technical representative is the owner of such service company;

(g) "vehicle tank meter" means those meters mounted on vehicle tanks used for the measurement and delivery of petroleum products; and

(h) "liquefied petroleum gas" means commercial propane and such commercial butane as is used for heating fuel.

History: L. 1985, ch. 343, § 1; L. 1988, ch. 398, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 364, § 7; L. 1996, ch. 146, § 29; L. 2004, ch. 4, § 1; July 1.