83-210. County or city enforcement; powers and duties of officials. (a) Any county or city in the state may establish a department of public inspection of weights and measures, appoint inspectors of weights and measures and fix their compensation and pass such ordinances relating to weights and measures not in conflict with the state laws as may be deemed necessary. If a county or city establishes such a department it shall provide the department with suitable quarters, a set of secondary standards and all other equipment for the proper performance of duties. All county and city standards shall be tried, proved and sealed under the direction of the secretary, and shall be returned to the secretary for verification at least once in every year.
(b) Any weights and measures official appointed for a county or city shall have the duties enumerated in subsections (e) to (h), inclusive, of K.S.A. 83-206, and amendments thereto, and the powers enumerated in K.S.A. 83-208 and 83-209, and amendments thereto. These powers and duties shall extend to their respective jurisdictions, except that the jurisdiction of a county official shall not extend to any city for which a weights and measures official has been appointed. Weights and measures officials appointed for a county or city shall exercise such additional powers as may be granted by the governing body of such county or city, but such additional powers shall not be less than the powers granted to state inspectors of weights and measures under chapter 83 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, and shall not be in conflict with powers granted to the secretary under chapter 83 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto.
(c) All departments of public inspection of weights and measures established by cities or counties prior to July 1, 1985, are hereby specifically continued in existence.
History: L. 1985, ch. 345, § 10; L. 1996, ch. 146, § 18; Apr. 18.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 83 - Weights And Measures
Article 2 - Standards And Enforcement
83-202 Recognized system of weights and measures.
83-203 State primary standards of weights and measures; secondary standards.
83-205 Weights and measures inspection program; personnel; functions.
83-206 Same; powers and duties of secretary of agriculture.
83-207 Same; rules and regulations.
83-208 Inspections; prohibited acts; penalty for violation.
83-209 Enforcement; orders of secretary.
83-210 County or city enforcement; powers and duties of officials.
83-212 Bulk sales delivery ticket; contents.
83-213 Labeling of packages; rules and regulations.
83-214 Testing and sealing on request; charge for services; weights and measures fee fund.
83-215 Rejection of weighing or measuring device; repair or destruction of device.
83-216 Same; devices declared to be common nuisance and contraband; action for disposal of device.
83-218 Presumptive proof of regular use of device.
83-220 Penalty for violations.
83-221 Dispensing devices and vehicle tanks; inspections, tests, certifications.
83-222 Continuation of rules and regulations.
83-223 Action for injunction authorized to restrain or prevent violations.
83-225 Scale; authorized removal of rejection tag or other mark.