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4-18-338. Rules — Correct and incorrect apparatus.
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4-18-338. Rules — Correct and incorrect apparatus.
(a) The Arkansas Bureau of Standards shall issue from time to time reasonable rules for the enforcement of this subchapter.
(b) These rules may include:
(1) A system of determining the qualifications for registration of and issuing permits to sales and service personnel who for compensation place weighing and measuring devices into commercial use in this state;
(2) Standards of net weight, measure, or count and reasonable standards of fill for any commodity in package form;
(3) Rules governing the technical and reporting procedures to be followed and the report and record forms and marks of approval and rejection to be used by investigators of weights and measures in the discharge of their official duties;
(4) Rules governing the technical and reporting procedures to be followed and the report and record forms and marks of approval to be used by registered agents of weights and measures in the discharge of their official duties; and
(5) Exemptions from the sealing or marking requirements of § 4-18-341 with respect to weights and measures of character or size that sealing or marking would be inappropriate, impracticable, or damaging to the apparatus in question.
(c) The rules shall include specifications, tolerances, and regulations for weights and measures specified in § 4-18-341 designed to eliminate from use without prejudice to apparatus that conform as closely as practicable to the official standards apparatus that:
(1) Are not accurate and correct;
(2) Are constructed so that they are not reasonably permanent in their adjustment or will not repeat their indications correctly; or
(3) Facilitate the perpetration of fraud.
(d) As used in this subchapter, an apparatus shall be deemed to be corre
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 4-18-338
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4-18-338. Rules — Correct and incorrect apparatus.
(a) The Arkansas Bureau of Standards shall issue from time to time reasonable rules for the enforcement of this subchapter.
(b) These rules may include:
(1) A system of determining the qualifications for registration of and issuing permits to sales and service personnel who for compensation place weighing and measuring devices into commercial use in this state;
(2) Standards of net weight, measure, or count and reasonable standards of fill for any commodity in package form;
(3) Rules governing the technical and reporting procedures to be followed and the report and record forms and marks of approval and rejection to be used by investigators of weights and measures in the discharge of their official duties;
(4) Rules governing the technical and reporting procedures to be followed and the report and record forms and marks of approval to be used by registered agents of weights and measures in the discharge of their official duties; and
(5) Exemptions from the sealing or marking requirements of § 4-18-341 with respect to weights and measures of character or size that sealing or marking would be inappropriate, impracticable, or damaging to the apparatus in question.
(c) The rules shall include specifications, tolerances, and regulations for weights and measures specified in § 4-18-341 designed to eliminate from use without prejudice to apparatus that conform as closely as practicable to the official standards apparatus that:
(1) Are not accurate and correct;
(2) Are constructed so that they are not reasonably permanent in their adjustment or will not repeat their indications correctly; or
(3) Facilitate the perpetration of fraud.
(d) As used in this subchapter, an apparatus shall be deemed to be correct when it conforms to all applicable requirements promulgated as specified in this section.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
4-18-341. Testing generally.
(a) When not otherwise provided by law, the Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards shall have the power to inspect and test to ascertain if all weights and measures kept, offered, or exposed for sale are accurate and correct.
(b) Within each calendar year, or less frequently if in accordance with a schedule issued by him or her or as otherwise determined, the director shall inspect and test to ascertain if all weights and measures commercially used in determining the weight, measurement, or count of commodities or things sold, offered, or exposed for sale on the basis of weight, measure, or count or in computing the basic charge or payment for services rendered on the basis of weight, measure, or count are accurate and correct.
(c)(1) However, with respect to single-service devices designed to be used commercially only one (1) time and then to be discarded and to devices uniformly mass produced as by means of a mold or die and not susceptible to individual adjustment, tests may be made on representative samples of the devices.
(2) The lots of which the samples are representative shall be held to be correct or incorrect upon the basis of the results of the inspections and tests on the samples.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 4-18-341
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 4-18-341. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.