Arkansas Code
Subchapter 3 - Uniform Weights and Measures Law
§ 4-18-342. Packages or amounts of commodities — Inspection — Disposition of nonconforming units

(a)
(1) The Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards shall from time to time weigh or measure and inspect packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale, sold, or in the process of delivery to determine whether the packages or amounts of commodities contain the amounts represented and whether they are kept, offered, or exposed for sale or sold in accordance with law.
(2) When the packages or amounts of commodities are found not to contain the amounts represented or are found to be kept, offered, or exposed for sale in violation of law, the director may order them off sale and may so mark or tag them as to show them to be illegal.

(b) A person shall not:
(1) Sell, keep, offer, or expose for sale in intrastate commerce any package or amount of commodity that has been ordered off sale or marked or tagged as provided in this section unless the package or amount of commodity has been brought into full compliance with all legal requirements; or
(2) Dispose of any package or amount of commodity that has been ordered off sale or marked or tagged as provided in this section or that has not been brought into compliance with legal requirements in any manner except with the specific approval of the director.

Structure Arkansas Code

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

§ 4-18-301. Definitions

§ 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

§ 4-18-308. Requirements for the registration of servicepersons and service agencies for commercial weighing and measuring devices

§ 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

§ 4-18-317. Method of sale

§ 4-18-318. Sale from bulk

§ 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

§ 4-18-322. Prohibited acts

§ 4-18-323. Civil penalties

§ 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

§ 4-18-328. Regulations

§ 4-18-329. Fees for tests or inspections

§ 4-18-330. Fruit and commodities — Packing, selling, pledging, etc., with fraudulent intent — Penalty

§ 4-18-331. Legal weight of bushel of specific commodities

§ 4-18-332. Bushel of apples — Lawful measure

§ 4-18-333. “Cord” defined

§ 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

§ 4-18-340. Investigations

§ 4-18-341. Testing generally

§ 4-18-342. Packages or amounts of commodities — Inspection — Disposition of nonconforming units

§ 4-18-343. Display of price — Fractions

§ 4-18-344. Testing bulk meters or liquefied petroleum gas metering devices, pumps, and scales used for commercial transactions — Definitions