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