(a) The uniform regulation for the voluntary registration of service persons and service agencies for commercial weighing and measuring devices as adopted by The National Conference of Weights and Measures and published in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 130, Uniform Laws and Regulations and supplements thereto or revisions thereof, shall apply to the registration of service persons and service agencies in the state, except insofar as modified or rejected by legislative rule.
(b) Beginning January 1, 2018, the commissioner shall charge an annual registration fee for service persons and service agencies to be established by legislative rule: Provided, That upon the effective date of the amendments to this section adopted in the 2018 Regular Session of the Legislature, the division may not charge an annual registration fee.
(c) All fees paid pursuant to this section shall be paid to the Commissioner of Labor and deposited in the Weights and Measures Fund for use by the commissioner for the implementation and enforcement of this article. Through June 30, 2019, amounts collected which are found from time to time to exceed funds needed for the purposes set forth in this article may be utilized by the commissioner as needed to meet the division’s funding obligations: Provided, That beginning July 1, 2019, amounts collected may not be utilized by the commissioner as needed to meet the division’s funding obligations.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 47. Regulation of Trade
Article 1. Weights and Measures
§47-1-4. Systems of Weights and Measures; Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices
§47-1-5. Requirements for Packaging and Labeling
§47-1-6. Requirements for the Method of Sale of Commodities
§47-1-7. Requirements for Unit Pricing
§47-1-9. Requirements for Open Dating
§47-1-10. Requirements for Type Evaluation
§47-1-11. Requirements for Motor Fuel
§47-1-12. Misrepresentation of Quantity
§47-1-13. Misrepresentation of Pricing
§47-1-16. Information Required on Packages
§47-1-17. Declarations of Unit Price on Random Weight Packages
§47-1-18. Advertising Packages for Sale
§47-1-19. State Weights and Measures Division
§47-1-20. State Measurement Laboratory