When necessary for the enforcement of this subchapter or rules promulgated pursuant thereto, personnel designated by the Department of Agriculture on behalf of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards are:
(a) Authorized to enter any commercial premises during normal business hours, except that in the event such premises are not open to the public, he/she shall first present his/her credentials and obtain consent before making entry thereto, unless a search warrant has previously been obtained.
(b) Empowered to issue stop-use, hold, and removal orders with respect to any weights and measures commercially used, stop-sale, hold, and removal orders with respect to any packaged commodities or bulk commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale.
(c) Empowered to seize, for use as evidence, without formal warrant, any incorrect or unapproved weight, measure, package, or commodity found to be used, retained, offered, or exposed for sale or sold in violation of the provisions of this subchapter or rules promulgated pursuant thereto.
(d) Empowered to stop any commercial vehicle and, after presentation of his credentials, inspect the contents, require that the person in charge of that vehicle produce any documents in his or her possession concerning the contents, and require him or her to proceed with the vehicle to some specified place for inspection.
(e) With respect to the enforcement of this subchapter, the department is hereby vested with special police powers, and is authorized to arrest, with warrant, any violator of this subchapter.
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