There is hereby created a State Division of Weights and Measures located for administrative purposes within the Arkansas Bureau of Standards administered by the Department of Agriculture. The division is charged with, but not limited to, performing the following functions on behalf of the citizens of the state:
(a) Assuring that weights and measures in commercial services within the state are suitable for their intended use, properly installed, and accurate, and are so maintained by their owner or user.
(b) Preventing unfair or deceptive dealing by weight or measure in any commodity or service advertised, packaged, sold, or purchased within the state.
(c) Making available to all users of physical standards or weighing and measuring equipment the precision calibration and related metrological certification capabilities of the weights and measures facilities of the division.
(d) Promoting uniformity, to the extent practicable and desirable, between weights and measures requirements of this state and those of other states and federal agencies.
(e) Encouraging desirable economic growth while protecting the consumer through the adoption by rule of weights and measures requirements as necessary to assure equity among buyers and sellers.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law
Subtitle 2 - Miscellaneous Commercial Law Provisions
Chapter 18 - Weights and Measures
Subchapter 3 - Uniform Weights and Measures Law
§ 4-18-302. Systems of weights and measures
§ 4-18-303. Physical standards
§ 4-18-304. Technical requirements for weighing and measuring devices
§ 4-18-305. Requirements for packaging and labeling
§ 4-18-306. Requirements for the method of sale of commodities
§ 4-18-307. Requirements for unit pricing
§ 4-18-309. Requirements for open dating
§ 4-18-310. Requirements for type evaluation
§ 4-18-311. State Division of Weights and Measures
§ 4-18-312. Powers and duties of the State Plant Board
§ 4-18-313. Special police powers
§ 4-18-314. Powers and duties of local officials
§ 4-18-315. Misrepresentation of quantity
§ 4-18-316. Misrepresentation of pricing
§ 4-18-319. Information required on packages
§ 4-18-320. Declarations of unit price on random weight packages
§ 4-18-321. Advertising packages for sale
§ 4-18-324. Criminal penalties
§ 4-18-325. Restraining order and injunction
§ 4-18-326. Presumptive evidence
§ 4-18-327. Rules to be unaffected by repeal of prior enabling statute
§ 4-18-329. Fees for tests or inspections
§ 4-18-331. Legal weight of bushel of specific commodities
§ 4-18-332. Bushel of apples — Lawful measure
§ 4-18-334. Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards
§ 4-18-336. State standards — Certification
§ 4-18-337. Office and field standards — Verification
§ 4-18-338. Rules — Correct and incorrect apparatus
§ 4-18-339. Disposition of correct and incorrect apparatus
§ 4-18-342. Packages or amounts of commodities — Inspection — Disposition of nonconforming units