§ 4110. Specific powers and duties of department; regulations
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 3 Pa.C.S.A. AgricultureEffective: October 24, 2012
Effective: October 24, 2012
3 Pa.C.S.A. § 4110
§ 4110. Specific powers and duties of department; regulations
(3) Exemptions from the sealing or marking requirements of section 4119 (relating to disposition of correct and incorrect apparatus) with respect to weights and measures of such character or size that such sealing or marking would be inappropriate, impracticable or damaging to the apparatus in question.
(4) Institution of a program containing standards whereby individuals shall be department-certified as Certified Examiners of Weights and Measures. Certification under such program may be for a given category or categories of measuring or weighing devices or for a particular type of device except for commercially used truck-mounted fuel oil meters and retail motor fuel dispensers. The department shall certify only such individuals who:
Any program instituted under this paragraph shall include testing and inspection performance standards, reporting procedures, random inspection and testing by inspectors of a sample of devices inspected and tested by Certified Examiners of Weights and Measures and any other type of standards or procedures the department deems necessary to implement the program.
(b) Specifics.--These regulations shall include specifications, tolerances and regulations for weights and measures of the character of those specified in section 4112 (relating to general testing and inspections) designed to eliminate from use, without prejudice to apparatus that conforms as closely as practicable to the official standards, those:
The specifications, tolerances and regulations for commercial weighing and measuring devices, together with amendments thereto as recommended by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and published in National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 44, and supplements thereto, or in any publication revising or superseding Handbook 44, shall be the specifications, tolerances and regulations for commercial weighing and measuring devices of the Commonwealth except insofar as specifically modified, amended or rejected by a regulation issued by the department. For the purposes of this subchapter, apparatus shall be deemed to be correct when it conforms to all applicable requirements promulgated as specified in this section; other apparatus shall be deemed to be incorrect.
(d) Reports.--On or before March 1 of each year after the effective date of this subsection, the department shall submit a report to the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the Senate and the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives which shall describe all relevant activities of inspectors, Certified Examiners of Weights and Measures and city and county sealers of weights and measures for the preceding calendar year. The report shall contain, at a minimum, the following:
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1996, Dec. 18, P.L. 1028, No. 155, § 1, effective in 60 days. Amended 2012, Oct. 24, P.L. 1332, No. 169, § 1.1, imd. effective.
3 Pa.C.S.A. § 4110, PA ST 3 Pa.C.S.A. § 4110
Current through Act 11 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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