RCW 15.80.300
Definitions.
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly require[s] otherwise.
(1) "Certified weight" means any signed certified statement or memorandum of weight, measure, or count, issued by a weighmaster or weigher in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or any rule adopted under it.
(2) "Commodity" means anything that may be weighed, measured, or counted in a commercial transaction.
(3) "Department" means the department of agriculture of the state of Washington.
(4) "Director" means the director of the department or the director's duly appointed representative.
(5) "Licensed public weighmaster," also referred to as "weighmaster," means any person, licensed under the provisions of this chapter, who weighs, measures, or counts any commodity or thing and issues therefor a signed certified statement, ticket, or memorandum of weight, measure, or count accepted as the accurate weight, or count upon which the purchase or sale of any commodity or upon which the basic charge or payment for services rendered is based.
(6) "Person" means a natural person, individual, or firm, partnership, corporation, company, society, or association. This term shall import either the singular or plural, as the case may be.
(7) "Retail merchant" means and includes any person operating from a bona fide fixed or permanent location at which place all of the retail business of the merchant is transacted, and whose business is exclusively retail except for the occasional wholesaling of small quantities of surplus commodities that have been taken in exchange for merchandise from the producers thereof at the bona fide fixed or permanent location.
(8) "Thing" means anything used to move, handle, transport, or contain any commodity for which a certified weight, measure, or count is issued when such thing is used to handle, transport, or contain a commodity.
(9) "Vehicle" means any device, other than a railroad car, in, upon, or by which any commodity is or may be transported or drawn.
(10) "Weigher" means any person who is licensed under the provisions of this chapter and who is an agent or employee of a weighmaster and authorized by the weighmaster to issue certified statements of weight, measure, or count.
[ 2017 c 158 § 1; 1969 ex.s. c 100 § 1.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing
15.80.410 - Director's duty to enforce—Adoption of rules.
15.80.420 - Highway transport of commodities sold by weight—Weighing required—Exceptions.
15.80.430 - Certificates of weight and invoices to be carried with loads.
15.80.440 - Reweighing—Weighing—Variance from invoiced weight.
15.80.450 - Weighmaster's license—Applications—Fee.
15.80.460 - Weighmaster's license—Issuance—Expiration date.
15.80.470 - Weighmaster's license—Renewal date—Penalty fee.
15.80.490 - Weigher's license—Employees or agents to issue weight tickets—Application—Fee.
15.80.500 - Weigher's license—Issuance—Expiration date.
15.80.510 - Duties of weighmaster.
15.80.520 - Certification of weights—Impression seal—Fee.
15.80.530 - Certified weight ticket—Form—Contents—Evidence.
15.80.540 - Certified weight tickets—Retention of copies—Records.
15.80.550 - Weighmaster or weigher to determine weights—Automatic devices.
15.80.560 - Weighing devices to be suitable—Testing of weighing and measuring devices.
15.80.570 - Weighing devices—Rated capacity to exceed weight of load.
15.80.580 - Weighing devices—Platform size to sufficiently accommodate vehicles.
15.80.590 - Denial, suspension, or revocation of licenses—Hearing.
15.80.620 - Assuming to act as weighmaster or weigher.
15.80.640 - Writing, etc., false ticket or certificate—Influence—Penalty.
15.80.650 - Violations—Penalty—Criminal—Civil—Opportunity to request hearing.
15.80.660 - Collected moneys, civil penalties—Deposit.