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Extra - Chapter Notes - Enactment. Chapter 41 was added December 18, 1996, P.L.1028, No.155,...
Section 4101 - Short title of chapter - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...
Section 4102 - Definitions - The following words and phrases when used in this chapter...
Section 4105 - Systems of weights and measures - The system of weights and measures in customary use in...
Section 4106 - State standards of weight and measure - Such weights and measures in conformity with the standards of...
Section 4107 - Office and working standards and equipment - In addition to the State standards provided for in section...
Section 4108 - Director and inspectors of weights and measures - There shall be a director of weights and measures and...
Section 4109 - General powers and duties of department - The State Metrology Laboratory shall have the custody of the...
Section 4110 - Specific powers and duties of department; regulations - (a) Regulations.--The department shall issue from time to time regulations...
Section 4111 - Testing and inspections of standards - The State Metrology Laboratory at least once every five years...
Section 4112 - General testing and inspections - (a) Schedule.--When not otherwise provided by law, the department shall...
Section 4113 - Registration of sellers, installers and repairers of weighing and measuring devices - The department shall have the authority to establish, by regulation,...
Section 4114 - Registration and report of inspection and testing of weighing and measuring devices used for commercial purposes - The department shall establish, by regulation, a program requiring the...
Section 4115 - Training program - (a) Inspectors and county and city sealers.--The department shall establish...
Section 4116 - Investigations - The department shall investigate complaints made to it concerning violations...
Section 4117 - Inspection of packages - The department shall, from time to time, weigh or measure...
Section 4118 - Stop-use, stop-removal and removal orders - (a) Orders.--The department shall have the power to issue stop-use...
Section 4119 - Disposition of correct and incorrect apparatus - (a) Approval and disapproval.--The department shall approve for use and...
Section 4120 - Police powers; right of entry and stoppage - (a) Seizure without warrant.--With respect to the enforcement of this...
Section 4121 - Powers and duties of director and inspector - (a) Powers and duties.--The powers and duties given to and...
Section 4122 - City and county sealers and deputy sealers of weights and measures; appointment, powers and duties - (a) Appointment.--The mayors of cities of the second and third...
Section 4123 - City and county standards and equipment - (a) Procurement of standards.--The mayor of each city and the...
Section 4124 - Concurrent jurisdiction - In cities and counties to which a delegation of powers...
Section 4125 - Division of responsibilities - (a) Agreements; local inspection.--The department shall enter into memorandums of...
Section 4126 - Duty of owners of incorrect apparatus - (a) Rejected apparatus.--Weights and measures that have been rejected under...
Section 4127 - Method of sale of commodities - (a) Liquid commodities.--General commodities in liquid form shall be sold...
Section 4128 - Packages; declarations of quantity and origin; variations; exemptions - (a) Declarations.--Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, any commodity...
Section 4129 - Declarations of unit price on random packages - In addition to the declarations required by section 4128 (relating...
Section 4130 - Misleading packages - (a) Packaging.--No commodity in package form shall be so wrapped...
Section 4131 - Advertising packages for sale - (a) Quantity of contents.--Whenever a commodity in package form is...
Section 4132 - Sale by net weight - The word "weight" as used in this subchapter in connection...
Section 4133 - Misrepresentation of price - (a) Pricing.--Whenever any commodity or service is sold or is...
Section 4134 - Meat, poultry and seafood - Except for immediate consumption on the premises where sold or...
Section 4135 - Butter, oleomargarine and margarine - Butter, oleomargarine and margarine shall be offered and exposed for...
Section 4136 - Fluid dairy products - (a) Quantities.--All fluid dairy products, including, but not limited to,...
Section 4137 - Flour, cornmeal and hominy grits - (a) Increments of weight.--When in package form and when packed,...
Section 4138 - Potatoes - (a) Increments of weight.--All potatoes packed for sale, offered or...
Section 4139 - Construction of contracts - Fractional parts of any unit of weight or measure shall...
Section 4140 - Hindering or obstructing officer; penalties - Any person who shall hinder or obstruct in any way...
Section 4141 - Impersonation of officer; penalties - Any person who shall impersonate in any way the department,...
Section 4142 - Prohibited acts - (a) General rule.--It shall be unlawful: (1) To use or...
Section 4143 - Presumptive evidence - For the purposes of this subchapter, proof of the existence...
Section 4150 - Enforcement and regulations - (a) General rule.--The director is authorized and directed to enforce...
Section 4151 - Licenses - (a) Requirement.--Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, no person...
Section 4152 - Weighmasters' certificates - The original weighmaster's certificate shall be typewritten or made out...
Section 4153 - Preparation of weighmaster's certificate - A licensed public weighmaster shall not enter on a weighmaster's...
Section 4154 - Use of approved weighing device required - When making a weight determination as provided for by this...
Section 4155 - Scale requirement - A licensed public weighmaster shall not use a scale to...
Section 4156 - Disposition of copies of certificates - The original copy of a weighmaster's certificate shall be delivered...
Section 4157 - License required; definition - (a) License required.--No person shall assume the title "licensed public...
Section 4158 - Suspension or revocation of licenses - (a) Authorization.--The department is authorized to suspend or revoke the...
Section 4159 - Prohibited acts - (a) General rule.--It shall be unlawful: (1) For a weighmaster...
Section 4160 - Sales by weight - Any commodity shall be duly weighed by a licensed weighmaster...
Section 4161 - Separation required - When more than one type of solid fuel or other...
Section 4162 - Substitution of another purchaser in weighmaster's certificate - If a person is, for practical reasons, unable to deliver...
Section 4163 - Authorization to inspect and direct to nearest scales - Any State, county or city inspector of weights and measures...
Section 4164 - Weighmaster's certificate required - (a) General rule.--No person shall sell, transport over a public...
Section 4165 - Small lots - When solid fuel is sold in lots not exceeding 100...
Section 4166 - Exception for boatloads or railroad carloads - Section 4164(a) (relating to weighmaster's certificate required) shall not apply...
Section 4167 - Rules and regulations - The department shall have the power to adopt and promulgate...
Section 4168 - Sales by employer-producer to employees - In any case where under the provisions of a contract...
Section 4169 - Existing licenses - A person who holds a valid license issued under the...
Section 4170 - Approval of types of weights and measures and weighing and measuring devices - The bureau is authorized to pass upon each type of...
Section 4171 - Submission of types for approval - The submission of a type may be by sample or...
Section 4172 - Certificates of approval; notice of disapproval; appeals - When a type of weight or measure or weighing or...
Section 4173 - Manufacture, sale or use of unapproved weights, measures and devices - It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, offer...
Section 4174 - Marking of approved weights and measures - It shall be unlawful to manufacture, offer or expose for...
Section 4175 - Marking of weights and measures "not legal for trade." - It shall be conclusively presumed that a weight or measure...
Section 4176 - Rules and regulations - Rules and regulations for the carrying out and enforcement of...
Section 4177 - Sealing of approved weights and measures - Inspectors of weights and measures of this Commonwealth and sealers...
Section 4178 - Fees - The Department of General Services shall charge and collect fees...
Section 4179 - Enforcement - It shall be the duty of the bureau and the...
Section 4180 - Meter required - (a) Metered vehicle.--No person shall deliver light fuel oils to...
Section 4181 - Small deliveries - Fuel oil deliveries of 50 gallons or less may be...
Section 4182 - Exceptions - The provisions of this subchapter shall not apply to deliveries...
Section 4183 - Enforcement of chapter, rules and regulations - (a) Duties.--It shall be the duty of the department and...
Section 4187.1 - Scope of subchapter - This subchapter relates to automotive fuel testing and disclosure.
Section 4187.2 - Definitions - The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter...
Section 4187.3 - Automotive Fuel Testing and Disclosure Program - (a) Authorization.--The department may establish and implement the Automotive Fuel...
Section 4187.4 - Standards for automotive fuel - (a) Adoption of standards.--The department shall adopt the latest standards...
Section 4187.5 - Automotive fuel rating, disclosure and labeling requirements - (a) Disclosure requirements.--Each distributor, producer or refiner who sells or...
Section 4187.6 - Investigations - (a) General rule.--The department may conduct investigations to determine compliance...
Section 4187.7 - Violations and penalties - (a) Retail violations.--The department may assess a civil penalty of...
Section 4187.8 - (Reserved) -
Section 4190 - Rules and regulations - The department shall have the power to adopt and promulgate...
Section 4191 - Offenses and penalties - (a) Criminal penalties.--A person who violates any provision of this...
Section 4192 - Temporary or permanent injunctions - In addition to any other remedies provided in this chapter,...
Section 4193 - Disposition of funds - (a) Deposit in State Treasury.--When the proceeding is instituted by...
Section 4194 - Validity of prosecutions - Prosecutions for violation of any provision of this chapter are...