Rule 40-15-2-.03 - Weighing and Measuring DevicesPersons selling or servicing weighing and measuring devices shall conform to these minimum requirements of regulation:
(a) The specifications, tolerances, and regulations for commercial weighing and measuring devices, together with the amendments thereto, as recommended by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and published in the National Bureau of Standards HANDBOOK 44, as supplemented, shall be the specifications, tolerances and regulations for commercial weighing and measuring devices in the State of Georgia; provided, however, that no provision of the referenced handbook shall take precedence over the laws of the State of Georgia, or any regulation promulgated thereunder.(b) No new weighing or measuring device, nor any accessory for such device, shall be manufactured for sale, offered for sale, held for sale, or sold for commercial service in the State of Georgia without the prototype of such device or accessory having first been examined and approved by the National Bureau of Standards-National Type Approval Program as in compliance with NBS HANDBOOK 44 and current supplements thereto as adopted, except in the case of in-motion railroad track scales, in which case, must comply with American Railway Engineering Association Standards.(c) All sales or transfers or relocations of new, used, repaired, reconditioned, or relocated scales used to weigh commercial commodities shall be reported within three (3) working days of the date of sale and installation or relocation, which ever comes later, to the Weights and Measures Division, Georgia Department of Agriculture, Capitol Square, Atlanta, Georgia 30334-2001. 1. If the new or used scale is installed by the buyer, or if the scale is relocated by the owner, the scale shall not be put into service prior to inspection by an inspector of the Weights and Measures Division. The division office should be notified within the required time, on forms provided by the seller of the new scale, or provided, on request, by the division office.2. If the scale is new, and is installed by the seller, his agents, salesmen, scale servicemen, or other representative, that person making the installation shall notify the division office of the installation and putting into service within the required time.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 40-15-2-.03
O.C.G.A. Sec. 10-2-5 (Ga. L. 1972, p. 654).
Original Rule entitled "Stop-Use, Stop-Removal, and Removal Orders" was filed and effective on June 30, 1965.Amended: Rule repealed and a new Rule entitled "Weighing and Measuring Devices" adopted. Filed November 30, 1973; effective December 20, 1973.Amended: Filed March 1, 1984; effective March 21, 1984.