Section 56C. Whoever maintains a cash register or other mechanical device at a counter for totalling the monetary value of customer purchases at retail which is so hidden or in such a position that the total cannot be observed by the customer shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars or shall be subject to a civil citation as provided in section 29A.
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