Section 53. If a sealer cannot seal any weighing or measuring device in the usual manner, he may mark it with a stencil or by other suitable means, showing that it has been inspected; and if a weighing or measuring device is so small as to render it impracticable to seal it in the usual manner, he shall give a certificate in a form approved by the director, specifying each such weighing or measuring device so tested; but he shall in no case seal or mark as correct weighing or measuring devices not conforming to the standards. If such weighing or measuring device can be readily adjusted by means at hand, he may adjust and seal it; but if not, he shall affix thereto a notice forbidding its use until he is satisfied that it conforms to the standards; and whoever removes said notice without the consent of such officer shall forfeit not more than five hundred dollars, to be equally divided between the town and the complainant.
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