RCW 19.94.517
Incorrect commercial instrument or device to benefit of owner/operator—Penalties—Appeal.
(1) Whenever the department or a city sealer tests or inspects a weighing or measuring instrument or device and finds the instrument or device to be incorrect to the economic benefit of the owner/operator of the weighing or measuring instrument or device and to the economic detriment of the customer, the owner of the weighing or measuring instrument or device is subject to the following civil penalties:
Device deviations outside the tolerances stated in Handbook 44.
Penalty
Small weighing or measuring instruments or devices:
First violation . . . .
$
200.00
Second or subsequent violation within one year of first violation . . . .
$
500.00
Medium weighing or measuring instruments or devices:
First violation . . . .
$
400.00
Second or subsequent violation within one year of first violation . . . .
$
1,000.00
Large weighing or measuring instruments or devices:
First violation . . . .
$
500.00
Second or subsequent violation within one year of first violation . . . .
$
2,000.00
Electric vehicle fuel measuring instruments or devices:
First violation . . . .
$
200.00
Second or subsequent violation within one year of first violation . . . .
$
500.00
(2) For the purposes of this section:
(a) The following are small weighing or measuring instruments or devices: Scales of zero to four hundred pounds capacity, liquid fuel metering devices with flows of not more than twenty gallons per minute, liquid petroleum gas meters with one inch in diameter or smaller dispensers, fabric meters, cordage meters, and taxi meters.
(b) The following are medium weighing or measuring instruments or devices: Scales of four hundred one to five thousand pounds capacity, liquid fuel metering devices with flows of more than twenty but not more than one hundred fifty gallons per minute, and mass flow meters.
(c) The following are large weighing or measuring instruments or devices: Liquid petroleum gas meters with greater than one inch diameter dispensers, liquid fuel metering devices with flows over one hundred fifty gallons per minute, and scales of more than five thousand pounds capacity and scales of more than five thousand pounds capacity with supplemental devices.
(3) The weighing or measuring instrument or device owner may appeal the civil penalty.
[ 2021 c 238 § 10; 2019 c 96 § 19; 1995 c 355 § 23.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2019 c 96: See note following RCW 19.94.160.
Application—Effective dates—1995 c 355: See notes following RCW 19.94.015.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 19 - Business Regulations—Miscellaneous
Chapter 19.94 - Weights and Measures.
19.94.010 - Definitions—Director may prescribe by rule.
19.94.015 - Commercial use of instrument or device—Registration—Fees.
19.94.150 - Standards recognized.
19.94.163 - Testing by department—Ensuring enforcement—Issuance of seal of approval—Exception.
19.94.175 - Registration—Inspection and testing—Fees—Report.
19.94.185 - Deposit of moneys—Weights and measures account—General fund.
19.94.190 - Enforcement—Rules—Penalties.
19.94.205 - Correct and incorrect—Instruments, devices, weights, measures—When deemed.
19.94.216 - Department inspection—City sealer—Fees.
19.94.230 - Inspections and tests to determine conformity to law—Off sale order—Marks, tags, stamps.
19.94.240 - Stop-use, stop-removal, and removal orders.
19.94.255 - Correction of rejected weights and measures.
19.94.258 - Service agent—Registration certificate.
19.94.2584 - Service agent—Registration certificate—Revocation, suspension, refusal to renew—Appeal.
19.94.260 - Rejection—Seizure for use as evidence—Entry of premises—Search warrant.
19.94.265 - Grievances—Procedure—Notice—Hearing—Rules.
19.94.340 - Sale of commodities—Measurement—Exceptions—Rules to assure good practice and accuracy.
19.94.350 - Packaged commodities in intrastate commerce—Declaration of contents on outside—Rules.
19.94.360 - Declaration of price on outside of package.
19.94.370 - Misleading wrappers, containers of packaged commodities—Standards of fill required.
19.94.400 - Meat, fish, poultry to be sold by weight—Exceptions.
19.94.410 - Butter, margarine to be sold by weight.
19.94.420 - Fluid dairy products to be packaged for retail sale in certain units.
19.94.430 - Packaged flour to be sold by weight.
19.94.440 - Commodities sold in bulk—Delivery tickets.
19.94.450 - Solid fuels to be sold by weight, cubic measure—Delivery tickets.
19.94.460 - Heating oils—Delivery tickets—Statements.
19.94.470 - Berries and small fruit.
19.94.480 - Fractional units as fractional value.
19.94.485 - Contracts—Construction.
19.94.490 - Obstruction of director or sealer in performance of duties—Penalty.
19.94.500 - Impersonation of director or sealer—Penalty.
19.94.507 - Gasoline delivered to service stations—Invoice required.
19.94.510 - Unlawful practices—Penalty.
19.94.515 - Unlawful commercial use of instrument or device—Penalty.
19.94.517 - Incorrect commercial instrument or device to benefit of owner/operator—Penalties—Appeal.
19.94.520 - Injunction against violations.
19.94.540 - Antifreeze products—Use of aversive agent.
19.94.542 - Antifreeze products—Aversive agents—Limitation of liability.
19.94.544 - Antifreeze products—Aversive agents—Application.
19.94.550 - Electric vehicle supply equipment—Publicly available.
19.94.555 - Electric vehicle supply equipment exemptions.
19.94.560 - Electric vehicle service provider disclosures.
19.94.565 - Department rules for electric vehicle service providers.
19.94.570 - Electric vehicle supply equipment interoperability standards.
19.94.580 - Electric vehicle service provider penalties.
19.94.585 - Charging session—Consumer data disclosure.