(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.
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