Section 28A. Meters for measuring liquefied petroleum gas sold in the vapor state and household type liquid petroleum meters shall be sealed by the manufacturer thereof as hereinafter provided or by a sealer of weights and measures in the town where the meter is used. The deputy director of standards shall prescribe regulations including specifications and tolerances governing the testing and sealing of such meters by the manufacturers and method of determining quantity of liquefied petroleum gas, and other liquid petroleum heating oils, and may authorize any manufacturer to seal such meters upon written agreement to conform to such regulations. The deputy director may at any time for cause revoke the authority so given by him to any manufacturer. The deputy director or his inspectors under his direction shall test and seal or condemn, according to the results of such test, all meters for measuring liquefied petroleum gas sold in the liquid state. For the purposes of this section the term ''liquefied petroleum gas'' shall mean and include any material which is composed predominantly of any of the following hydrocarbons or mixtures of the same: propane, propylene, butane (normal or isobutane) and butylene; and the term ''household type liquid petroleum meters'' shall mean positive displacement meters installed between the liquid heating oil storage tank and the oil burner for the purpose of determining the quantity of liquid heating oil consumed.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title XV - Regulation of Trade
Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures
Section 2 - Relation of Avoirdupois Pound to Troy Pound
Section 4 - Additional State Standards; Replacement of Weights
Section 5 - Municipal Standards
Section 6 - Safe Keeping and Preservation of Town Standards; Insurance
Section 7 - Neglect to Provide Suitable Place for Keeping Standards; Loss or Damage
Section 8 - Vibrating Steelyards
Section 9 - State Clinical Standard Thermometer; Certification
Section 10 - Office Clinical Standard Thermometers; Verification; Comparisons
Section 11 - Tolerances and Specifications for Clinical Thermometers
Section 12 - Inspection and Testing of Clinical Thermometers; Certification; Fees
Section 13 - Manufacture and Sale of Clinical Thermometers
Section 14 - Penalties for Violation of Sec. 13
Section 16 - Paper or Fibre Bottles and Jars for Milk or Cream; Capacity; Sealing; Stamping
Section 17 - Re-Use of Paper or Fibre Bottles or Jars for Milk, Cream or Other Liquids
Section 19 - Penalties for Violation of Sec. 18
Section 21 - Semi-Annual Inspection of Ice Cream, Frozen Desserts or Frozen Dessert Mix Containers
Section 23 - Testing Capacity of Containers; Seizure; Complaint; Revocation of Authority
Section 24 - Penalty for Unauthorized Marking
Section 25 - Condemnation of Weighing or Measuring Devices; Marking; Removal of Notice
Section 26 - Use or Possession of False or Condemned Devices
Section 27 - Use of Unsealed Weighing or Measuring Devices
Section 28 - Recovery of Market Value of Goods for Use of Unsealed Devices
Section 29 - Powers and Duties of Deputy Director of Standards
Section 29a - Civil Citation for Violation of Weights and Measures Laws; Appeal
Section 31 - Use of Seals; Imitation or Counterfeit Seals
Section 33a - Testing of Weighing and Measuring Devices in Towns of 5,000 or Less Inhabitants
Section 37 - Reports of Municipalities; Weighing and Measuring Devices
Section 38 - Duplicate Set of Apothecaries' Weights and Liquid Measures
Section 39 - Receipt and Accountability of Town Standards and Seal
Section 40 - Duplicate Set of Weights, Measures and Balances
Section 41 - Annual Testing and Sealing of Weights and Measures; Notice; Record
Section 42 - Failure to Comply With Notice; Sealing on Premises; Interference With Sealer; Penalty
Section 43 - Testing of Weighing or Measuring Devices Registering Price
Section 44 - Testing of Devices for Determining Measurement of Leather; Rules and Regulations
Section 45 - Testing of Taximeters; Rules and Regulations
Section 46a - Bulk Milk Tanks; Calibration and Sealing
Section 48 - Use of Untested Weights or Measures
Section 49 - Annual Tests of Hay and Coal Scales
Section 50 - Tests of Weighing or Measuring Devices Upon Request; Results
Section 51 - Sealing of Glass Milk and Cream Bottles or Jars
Section 52 - Testing Incorrect Weights or Measuring Devices Upon Complaint; Entry; Use of Device
Section 53 - Marking Devices With Stencil; Certificate; Notice Forbidding Use; Removal of Notice
Section 54 - Seizure of Weighing or Measuring Devices for Evidence; Disposition
Section 55 - Seizure of Devices Not Conforming to Legal Standards; Destruction
Section 56 - Fees of Sealers and Inspectors
Section 56a - Location of Scales for Food Sold at Retail
Section 56b - Computing Scales for Prepackaged Meat, Poultry or Fish; Penalty for Failure to Provide
Section 56c - Placement of Cash Register; Observation of Total by Customer; Penalty
Section 56d - Examination and Testing of Automated Retail Checkout Systems
Section 57 - Annual Report of the Acts of the Division of Standards