2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 57 - Trade Practices and Regulations
Section 17 Standards of Weights and Measures
Section 57-17-8 Powers of the director; police powers; right of entry and stoppage.

57-17-8. Powers of the director; police powers; right of entry and stoppage.

To facilitate the performance of his duties and the enforcement of the provisions of this act and the regulations promulgated hereunder, the director, in the performance of his duties, is empowered to:

A. approve for use, and seal or mark with appropriate devices, the weights and measures he finds upon inspection and test to be correct;

B. reject and mark or tag as "recommended for repair" apparatus, weights and measures he finds upon inspection and test to be incorrect, but which in his best judgment are susceptible of satisfactory repair;

C. condemn or seize weights and measures he finds upon inspection to be incorrect, but which in his best judgment are not susceptible of satisfactory repair;

D. arrest by formal warrant a willful violator of the provisions of this act or the regulations promulgated hereunder; and to seize, without formal warrant, for use as evidence, incorrect or unsealed apparatus, weights and measures and packages or goods and commodities, found by him to be sold or offered for sale in violation of law;

E. to enter, without formal warrant, a structure or premises for the purposes of inspection during business hours;

F. conduct investigations to ensure compliance with this act; and

G. issue stop-use, hold and removal orders with respect to any weights and measures commercially used, and stop-sale, hold and removal orders with respect to any packaged commodities or bulk commodities kept, offered or exposed for sale.

History: 1953 Comp., 76-1-35, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 202, 8; 1973, ch. 386, 8.