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Chapter 290 - Weights, Measures, and Standards
Act 283 of 1964 Weights and Measures Act (290.601 - 290.635)
AN ACT to regulate and provide standards for weights and measures, and the packaging and advertising of certain commodities; to provide for a state director and other officials and to prescribe their powers and duties; to provide a fee system for certain inspections and tests; to provide penalties for fraud and deception in the use of false weights and measures and other violations; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts.
History: 1964, Act 283, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964 ;-- Am. 1975, Act 217, Imd. Eff. Aug. 26, 1975
- Section 290.601 Short Title.
- Section 290.602 Definitions.
- Section 290.603 Recognized Systems of Weights and Measures; Use; Recognized Definitions, Tables, and Equivalents Governing Equipment and Transactions.
- Section 290.604 State Reference Standards of Weights and Measures; Storage; Maintenance; Removal From Laboratory; Use.
- Section 290.605 Keeping Copies of State Primary Standards as Secondary Standards; Field Standards and Equipment; Verification.
- Section 290.606 State Director of Weights and Measures; Deputy; Inspectors.
- Section 290.607 Custody and Records of Standards and Equipment; Enforcement of Act; General Supervision; Annual Report.
- Section 290.608 Rules; Exemptions.
- Section 290.609 State Director of Weights and Measures; Testing of Standards, Inspections; Testing of Weights and Measures for State Purchases.
- Section 290.609a Weighing Device; Measuring Device; Certificates of Conformance; Participating Laboratory.
- Section 290.609b Servicepersons and Agencies; Registration Requirements; Fee; Denial, Suspension, or Revocation of Registration; Enforcement Action.
- Section 290.610 State Director of Weights and Measures; Inspecting and Testing of Weights and Measures Kept for Sale or Used Commercially; Sampling.
- Section 290.610a Inspection Fee; Fees and Expenses for Special Services; Disposition of Monies.
- Section 290.610b Fee Schedules.
- Section 290.611 State Director of Weights and Measures; Investigation of Complaints; Commercial Transactions.
- Section 290.612 State Director of Weights and Measures; Weight, Measurement, or Inspection of Packages of Commodities, Sampling Procedures.
- Section 290.613 State Director of Weights and Measures; Stop-Use Orders, Stop-Removal Orders, Removal Orders.
- Section 290.614 State Director of Weights and Measures; Approval, Rejection, Condemnation, Confiscation.
- Section 290.615 State Director of Weights and Measures; Enforcement, Seizure Without Formal Warrant.
- Section 290.616 State Director of Weights and Measures; Powers of Deputy Director and Inspectors.
- Section 290.617 Sealer of Weights and Measures, Deputy Sealers, Supervising Inspectors, City and County Inspectors; Appointment.
- Section 290.618 Sealer of Weights and Measures, Deputy Sealers, Supervising Inspectors, City and County Inspectors; Jurisdiction; City or County Ordinances.
- Section 290.619 City and County Official Standards; Comparison With State Standards.
- Section 290.620 Joint County and City Weights and Measures Jurisdiction; Powers.
- Section 290.621 State Director of Weights and Measures; Concurrent Enforcement Powers.
- Section 290.622 Rejected or Condemned Weights and Measures; Disposition.
- Section 290.623 Commodities, Liquid, Nonliquid, Measurement; Exceptions.
- Section 290.624 Package Labels; Contents; Allowable Variations.
- Section 290.625 Package Labels; Random Weights, Measures or Counts, Additional Declarations.
- Section 290.626 Packages; Misleading Wrappers.
- Section 290.627 Packages; Advertisement, Declaration of Quantity.
- Section 290.628 Commodities; Sale by Weight, Net Weight.
- Section 290.628a Meat, Meat Products, Poultry and Seafood Sold by Weight; Food Combination Sold by Weight, Quantity Representation by Total Weight of Product or Combination.
- Section 290.628b Commodity or Service; Sale by Weight, Measure or Count; Misrepresentation; Display of Price Including Fraction of a Cent.
- Section 290.628c Commodity Sale; Method; Packaging and Labeling Requirements; Certificate of Conformance; Compliance Standards; Registration for Servicepersons and Agencies; "Ton" and "Gross Ton" Defined; Motor Vehicle Repair Facility.
- Section 290.628d Gross Weight of Vehicle or Truck Tractor With Multiple Trailers; Determination; Scale; Inapplicability of Section to Enforcement of Vehicle Weight Under Michigan Vehicle Code.
- Section 290.628e Sale of Motor Fuel at Roadside Retail Location; Advertising; Use of Proprietary Fuel Name; Conditions Regarding Payment by Cash or Credit Card.
- Section 290.628f Pump With Scanning Device for Reading Customer Payment Card; Security Measure Required; Notice of Noncompliance; Failure to Make Correction; Prohibition; Definitions.
- Section 290.629 Assaulting, Inflicting Bodily Injury Upon, Hindering, or Obstructing Certain Persons in Performance of Official Duties as Misdemeanor; Penalties.
- Section 290.630 Impersonation of Officers.
- Section 290.631 Prohibited Acts; Penalties; Fines; Closure of Facility; Inspection; Consent Order; Disposition of Fines or Recovered Amounts.
- Section 290.631a Consent Agreement; Proceeding; Action by Attorney General; Fines.
- Section 290.632 Temporary Restraining Order; Preliminary or Permanent Injunction.
- Section 290.633 Proof of Existence of Weight, Measure or Device; Presumption.
- Section 290.634 Repeal.
- Section 290.635 Rescission of R 285.559.
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