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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 98. — WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
- Chapter 98 — Section 1. Definitions.
- Chapter 98 — Section 2. Relation of avoirdupois pound to troy pound.
- Chapter 98 — Section 3. State standards.
- Chapter 98 — Section 4. Additional state standards; replacement of weights.
- Chapter 98 — Section 5. Municipal standards.
- Chapter 98 — Section 6. Safe keeping and preservation of town standards; insurance.
- Chapter 98 — Section 7. Neglect to provide suitable place for keeping standards; loss or damage.
- Chapter 98 — Section 8. Vibrating steelyards.
- Chapter 98 — Section 9. State clinical standard thermometer; certification.
- Chapter 98 — Section 10. Office clinical standard thermometers; verification; comparisons.
- Chapter 98 — Section 11. Tolerances and specifications for clinical thermometers.
- Chapter 98 — Section 12. Inspection and testing of clinical thermometers; certification; fees.
- Chapter 98 — Section 13. Manufacture and sale of clinical thermometers.
- Chapter 98 — Section 14. Penalties for violation of sec. 13.
- Chapter 98 — Section 14A. Glass bottle or jars for lubricating oil; quality; capacity; sealing;revocation of authority; false or insufficient measure; inspection ofbottles or jars.
- Chapter 98 — Section 15. Glass bottles or jars for milk or cream; capacity; sealing; designatingmark; false measure; revocation of authority.
- Chapter 98 — Section 16. Paper or fibre bottles and jars for milk; capacity; sealing; stamping.
- Chapter 98 — Section 17. Re-use of paper or fibre bottles or jars for milk.
- Chapter 98 — Section 18. Markings on cans or containers for milk; sealing; rules and regulations;revocation of authority; designating marks; false or insufficient measure;inspection.
- Chapter 98 — Section 19. Penalties for violation of sec. 18.
- Chapter 98 — Section 20. Containers for sale of ice cream; capacity; sealing; designating mark;false or insufficient measure.
- Chapter 98 — Section 21. Semi-annual inspection of ice cream containers.
- Chapter 98 — Section 22. Paper or fibre cartons for sale of viscous or semi-solid commodities;capacity; shape; dimensions; markings.
- Chapter 98 — Section 23. Testing capacity of containers; seizure; complaint; revocation of authority.
- Chapter 98 — Section 24. Penalty for unauthorized marking.
- Chapter 98 — Section 25. Condemnation of weighing or measuring devices; marking; removal of notice.
- Chapter 98 — Section 26. Use or possession of false or condemned devices.
- Chapter 98 — Section 27. Use of unsealed weighing or measuring devices.
- Chapter 98 — Section 28. Recovery of market value of goods for use of unsealed devices.
- Chapter 98 — Section 28A. Sealing and testing of meters for measuring liquefied petroleum gas;tolerances; revocation of authority.
- Chapter 98 — Section 29. Powers and duties of director of standards.
- Chapter 98: Section 29A Civil citation for violation of weights and measures laws; appeal
- Chapter 98 — Section 30. Repealed, 1935, 60, Sec. 2.
- Chapter 98 — Section 31. Use of seals; imitation or counterfeit seals.
- Chapter 98 — Section 32. Tests, inspections and adjustments of town standards and devices;complaints; enforcement.
- Chapter 98 — Section 33. Testing of weighing and measuring devices in state institutions; reports;appointment of special deputies.
- Chapter 98 — Section 33A. Testing of weighing and measuring devices intowns of 5,000 or lessinhabitants.
- Chapter 98 — Section 34. Appointment of sealers and deputies in cities and large towns;powers andduties; interference with sealer; compensation; fees.
- Chapter 98 — Section 35. Appointment of sealers and deputies in small towns; powers and duties;compensation; removal.
- Chapter 98 — Section 36. Appointment of district sealers; powers and duties; bond; compensation;records; fees.
- Chapter 98 — Section 37. Reports of sealers to director.
- Chapter 98 — Section 38. Duplicate set of apothecaries' weights and liquid measures.
- Chapter 98 — Section 39. Receipt and accountability of town standards and seal.
- Chapter 98 — Section 40. Duplicate set of weights, measures and balances.
- Chapter 98 — Section 41. Annual testing and sealing of weights and measures; notice; record.
- Chapter 98 — Section 42. Failure to comply with notice; sealing on premises; interferencewithsealer; penalty.
- Chapter 98 — Section 43. Testing of weighing or measuring devices registering price.
- Chapter 98 — Section 44. Testing of devices for determining measurement of leather; rules andregulations.
- Chapter 98 — Section 45. Testing of taximeters; rules and regulations.
- Chapter 98 — Section 46. Testing of devices for standardizing production and determining wages,capacity of tanks or containers; sealing; condemnation; fee schedule;certificate; accuracy of automatic devices.
- Chapter 98 — Section 46A. Bulk milk tanks; calibration and sealing.
- Chapter 98 — Section 47. Annual testing of apothecaries' weights and measures; sealing; graduatedglass measures; approval; designating marks; revocation of authority.
- Chapter 98 — Section 48. Use of untested weights or measures.
- Chapter 98 — Section 49. Annual tests of hay and coal scales.
- Chapter 98 — Section 50. Tests of weighing or measuring devices upon request; results.
- Chapter 98 — Section 51. Sealing of glass milk and cream bottles or jars.
- Chapter 98 — Section 52. Testing incorrect weights or measuring devices upon complaint;entry; useof device.
- Chapter 98 — Section 53. Marking devices with stencil; certificate; notice forbidding use;removalof notice.
- Chapter 98 — Section 54. Seizure of weighing or measuring devices for evidence; disposition.
- Chapter 98 — Section 55. Seizure of devices not conforming to legal standards;destruction.
- Chapter 98 — Section 56. Fees of sealers.
- Chapter 98 — Section 56A. Location of scales for food sold at retail.
- Chapter 98 — Section 56B. Computing scales for prepackaged meat, poultry or fish; penalty forfailure to provide.
- Chapter 98 — Section 56C. Placement of cash register; observation of total by customer; penalty.
- Chapter 98 — Section 56D. Automated electronic retail check out systems; examination;misrepresentation; penalty.
- Chapter 98 — Section 57. Report.
- Chapter 98 — Section 58. Repealed, 1922, 355, Sec. 8.
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