Alaska Statutes
Title 45. Trade and Commerce
Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act

Article 1. Standard Weights and Measures.

Sec. 45.75.010. Systems of weights and measures. - The system of weights and measures in customary use in...

Sec. 45.75.020. State standards of weight and measure. - The weights and measures obtained by the state in conformity...

Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.

Sec. 45.75.030. State director and inspectors of weights and measures. - The commissioner of transportation and public facilities is ex officio...

Sec. 45.75.040. General powers and duties of director. - The director is the custodian of the state standards of...

Sec. 45.75.050. Adoption of regulations. - (a) The director shall adopt regulations for the enforcement of...

Sec. 45.75.060. Office and working standards and equipment. - The state shall supply the Department of Transportation and Public...

Sec. 45.75.070. Testing and inspection of local standards and weights and measures at state-supported institutions. - (a) At least once every five years, the director shall...

Sec. 45.75.080. General testing. - (a) The director may inspect and test, to ascertain if...

Sec. 45.75.090. Investigations. - The director shall investigate complaints of violations of this chapter,...

Sec. 45.75.100. Inspection of packages. - (a) The director shall, from time to time, weigh or...

Sec. 45.75.110. Stop-use, stop-removal, and removal orders. - (a) The director may issue stop-use orders, stop-removal orders, and...

Sec. 45.75.120. Disposition of correct and incorrect apparatus. - (a) The director shall approve for use and seal or...

Sec. 45.75.130. Police powers and right of entry and stoppage. - In the enforcement of this chapter and any other law...

Sec. 45.75.131. Issuance of citations. - (a) A peace officer or an employee of the Department...

Sec. 45.75.133. Bail forfeiture. - (a) The supreme court shall specify by rule or order...

Sec. 45.75.140. Powers and duties of deputy director and inspector. - The powers and duties of the director specified in AS...

Sec. 45.75.150. Appointment of city sealers and deputy sealers of weights and measures. - (a) A city may appoint a sealer of weights and...

Sec. 45.75.160. City sealers and deputy sealers. - The sealer of a city, and a deputy sealer when...

Sec. 45.75.170. Concurrent jurisdiction. - In each city having a sealer of weights and measures,...

Sec. 45.75.180. Duty of owners of incorrect apparatus. - Weights and measures rejected by the director or a sealer...

Article 3. Standards and Regulation for Sale of Commodities.

Sec. 45.75.190. Method of sale of commodities. - (a) Commodities in liquid form may be sold only by...

Sec. 45.75.200. Declarations of quantity and origin on packages. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a commodity...

Sec. 45.75.210. Declarations of unit price on random packages. - In addition to the declarations required by AS 45.75.200, a...

Sec. 45.75.220. Misleading packages. - A commodity in package form may not be so wrapped,...

Sec. 45.75.225. Advertising packages for sale. - (a) When a commodity in package form is advertised in...

Sec. 45.75.230. Misrepresentation of price. - When a commodity or service is sold, or is offered,...

Sec. 45.75.240. Meat, poultry, and seafood. - (a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, meat,...

Sec. 45.75.282. Bulk deliveries sold in terms of weight and delivered by vehicle. - (a) When a vehicle delivers to an individual purchaser a...

Sec. 45.75.288. Furnace and stove oil. - Furnace and stove oil shall be sold by liquid measure...

Sec. 45.75.290. Coal, coke, and charcoal. - (a) Coal, coke, and charcoal shall be sold by weight....

Sec. 45.75.300. Textile products. - It is unlawful to keep for the purpose of sale,...

Sec. 45.75.320. Construction of contracts. - Fractional parts of a unit of weight or measure mean...

Article 4. Enforcement.

Sec. 45.75.330. Injunction. - The director may apply to a court for a temporary...

Sec. 45.75.340. Presumptive evidence. - For the purposes of this chapter, proof of the existence...

Sec. 45.75.350. Validity of prosecutions. - Prosecutions for violation of this chapter are valid and proper...

Article 5. General Provisions.

Sec. 45.75.380. Offenses and penalties. - (a) A person commits a violation subject to the penalty...

Sec. 45.75.390. Definitions. - In this chapter, (1) “barrel,” when used in connection with...

Sec. 45.75.400. Short title. - This chapter may be cited as the Weights and Measures...