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Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. In this chapter the following words, unless a...
Section 2 - Relation of Avoirdupois Pound to Troy Pound - Section 2. The avoirdupois pound shall bear to the troy...
Section 3 - State Standards - Section 3. The following weighing and measuring devices now in...
Section 4 - Additional State Standards; Replacement of Weights - Section 4. The state standards shall also include all weighing...
Section 5 - Municipal Standards - Section 5. Towns shall keep the following standard weights, measures...
Section 6 - Safe Keeping and Preservation of Town Standards; Insurance - Section 6. In every town the sealer shall, at the...
Section 7 - Neglect to Provide Suitable Place for Keeping Standards; Loss or Damage - Section 7. Every such sealer who neglects to provide a...
Section 8 - Vibrating Steelyards - Section 8. Vibrating steelyards may be used if each beam...
Section 9 - State Clinical Standard Thermometer; Certification - Section 9. A clinical standard thermometer supplied by the commonwealth...
Section 10 - Office Clinical Standard Thermometers; Verification; Comparisons - Section 10. The commonwealth shall also supply additional clinical standard...
Section 11 - Tolerances and Specifications for Clinical Thermometers - Section 11. The deputy director shall promulgate tolerances and specifications...
Section 12 - Inspection and Testing of Clinical Thermometers; Certification; Fees - Section 12. The deputy director may at any time inspect...
Section 13 - Manufacture and Sale of Clinical Thermometers - Section 13. The deputy director shall prescribe rules and regulations...
Section 14 - Penalties for Violation of Sec. 13 - Section 14. Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent,...
Section 14a - Glass Bottle or Jars for Lubricating Oil; Quality; Capacity; Sealing; Revocation of Authority; False or Insufficient Measure; Inspection of Bottles or Jars - Section 14A. Glass bottles or jars intended to be used...
Section 15 - Glass Bottles or Jars for Milk or Cream; Capacity; Sealing; Designating Mark; False Measure; Revocation of Authority - Section 15. Glass bottles or jars used for the sale...
Section 16 - Paper or Fibre Bottles and Jars for Milk or Cream; Capacity; Sealing; Stamping - Section 16. Paper or fibre bottles and jars used for...
Section 17 - Re-Use of Paper or Fibre Bottles or Jars for Milk, Cream or Other Liquids - Section 17. Whoever re-uses any such paper or fibre bottle...
Section 18 - Markings on Cans or Containers for Milk or Cream; Sealing; Rules and Regulations; Revocation of Authority; Designating Marks; False or Insufficient Measure; Inspection - Section 18. All cans or containers sold for use in...
Section 19 - Penalties for Violation of Sec. 18 - Section 19. Whoever, by himself or by his servant or...
Section 20 - Containers for Sale of Ice Cream, Frozen Desserts or Frozen Dessert Mix; Capacity; Sealing; Designating Mark; False or Insufficient Measure - Section 20. All cans, moulds or other containers used in...
Section 21 - Semi-Annual Inspection of Ice Cream, Frozen Desserts or Frozen Dessert Mix Containers - Section 21. Sealers shall inspect at least semiannually all cans,...
Section 22 - Paper or Fibre Cartons for Sale of Viscous or Semi-Solid Commodities; Capacity; Shape; Dimensions; Markings - Section 22. Paper or fibre cartons which are used for...
Section 23 - Testing Capacity of Containers; Seizure; Complaint; Revocation of Authority - Section 23. A sealer or deputy of any city or...
Section 24 - Penalty for Unauthorized Marking - Section 24. Whoever violates any provision of sections twenty to...
Section 25 - Condemnation of Weighing or Measuring Devices; Marking; Removal of Notice - Section 25. All weighing or measuring devices which cannot be...
Section 26 - Use or Possession of False or Condemned Devices - Section 26. Whoever uses, or has in possession with intent...
Section 27 - Use of Unsealed Weighing or Measuring Devices - Section 27. Whoever sells or, if by the custom of...
Section 28 - Recovery of Market Value of Goods for Use of Unsealed Devices - Section 28. A seller may recover the fair market value...
Section 28a - Sealing and Testing of Meters for Measuring Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Tolerances; Revocation of Authority - Section 28A. Meters for measuring liquefied petroleum gas sold in...
Section 29 - Powers and Duties of Deputy Director of Standards - Section 29. The deputy director shall enforce the laws relating...
Section 29a - Civil Citation for Violation of Weights and Measures Laws; Appeal - Section 29A. As an alternative to initiating criminal proceedings for...
Section 31 - Use of Seals; Imitation or Counterfeit Seals - Section 31. The deputy director and town and district sealers...
Section 32 - Tests, Inspections and Adjustments of Town Standards and Devices; Complaints; Enforcement - Section 32. Upon the request of a sealer, and at...
Section 33 - Testing of Weighing and Measuring Devices in State Institutions; Reports; Appointment of Special Deputies - Section 33. The deputy director or his inspectors under his...
Section 33a - Testing of Weighing and Measuring Devices in Towns of 5,000 or Less Inhabitants - Section 33A. The deputy director or his inspectors, under his...
Section 34 - Appointment of Sealers and Deputies in Cities and Large Towns; Powers and Duties; Interference With Sealer; Compensation; Fees; Certification - Section 34. Subject to chapter thirty-one, the mayor of each...
Section 35 - Comprehensive Weights and Measures Enforcement System in Small Towns; Certification of Sealers and Deputies - Section 35. (a) The mayor of each city and the...
Section 36 - Appointment of District Sealers; Powers and Duties; Bond; Compensation; Records; Fees; Certification - Section 36. Two or more municipalities may combine the whole...
Section 36a - Determination That Cities or Towns Have an Inadequate Weights and Measures Enforcement System; Assumption of Responsibilities - Section 36A. For a city or town where the mayor...
Section 37 - Reports of Municipalities; Weighing and Measuring Devices - Section 37. Each municipality shall annually, between January 1 and...
Section 38 - Duplicate Set of Apothecaries' Weights and Liquid Measures - Section 38. Sealers shall, upon request to the deputy director,...
Section 39 - Receipt and Accountability of Town Standards and Seal - Section 39. Except as otherwise provided in section thirty-six each...
Section 40 - Duplicate Set of Weights, Measures and Balances - Section 40. A sealer or deputy visiting the place of...
Section 41 - Annual Testing and Sealing of Weights and Measures; Notice; Record - Section 41. Sealers shall annually give public notice, by advertisement...
Section 42 - Failure to Comply With Notice; Sealing on Premises; Interference With Sealer; Penalty - Section 42. After giving said notice, said sealers shall go...
Section 43 - Testing of Weighing or Measuring Devices Registering Price - Section 43. A sealer or deputy shall test all weighing...
Section 44 - Testing of Devices for Determining Measurement of Leather; Rules and Regulations - Section 44. Devices used for determining the measurement of leather...
Section 45 - Testing of Taximeters; Rules and Regulations - Section 45. All devices used upon vehicles for determining the...
Section 46 - Testing of Devices for Standardizing Production and Determining Wages, Capacity of Tanks or Containers; Sealing; Condemnation; Fee Schedule; Certificate; Accuracy of Automatic Devices - Section 46. The deputy director may, if he deems it...
Section 46a - Bulk Milk Tanks; Calibration and Sealing - Section 46A. Each bulk milk tank shall upon installation be...
Section 47 - Annual Testing of Apothecaries' Weights and Measures; Sealing; Graduated Glass Measures; Approval; Designating Marks; Revocation of Authority - Section 47. Apothecaries and other persons dealing in or dispensing...
Section 48 - Use of Untested Weights or Measures - Section 48. Whoever sells or dispenses drugs, medicines or merchandise...
Section 49 - Annual Tests of Hay and Coal Scales - Section 49. Sealers shall go once a year, and oftener...
Section 50 - Tests of Weighing or Measuring Devices Upon Request; Results - Section 50. Whoever uses any weighing or measuring devices may...
Section 51 - Sealing of Glass Milk and Cream Bottles or Jars - Section 51. When notified by a dealer in milk or...
Section 52 - Testing Incorrect Weights or Measuring Devices Upon Complaint; Entry; Use of Device - Section 52. If a person informs a sealer that he...
Section 53 - Marking Devices With Stencil; Certificate; Notice Forbidding Use; Removal of Notice - Section 53. If a sealer cannot seal any weighing or...
Section 54 - Seizure of Weighing or Measuring Devices for Evidence; Disposition - Section 54. A sealer or deputy may seize without a...
Section 55 - Seizure of Devices Not Conforming to Legal Standards; Destruction - Section 55. A sealer or deputy may seize weighing or...
Section 56 - Fees of Sealers and Inspectors - Section 56. Except as otherwise established in a town by...
Section 56a - Location of Scales for Food Sold at Retail - Section 56A. Whoever places a scale or weighing device when...
Section 56b - Computing Scales for Prepackaged Meat, Poultry or Fish; Penalty for Failure to Provide - Section 56B. Whoever being engaged in the business of selling...
Section 56c - Placement of Cash Register; Observation of Total by Customer; Penalty - Section 56C. Whoever maintains a cash register or other mechanical...
Section 56d - Examination and Testing of Automated Retail Checkout Systems - Section 56D. (a) The director or the director's inspectors and...
Section 57 - Annual Report of the Acts of the Division of Standards - Section 57. The director of the office of consumer affairs...