STATE STATUTES & CODES

MASSACHUSETTS STATUTES AND CODES

CHAPTER 98 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

• Section 1 Definitions
• Section 2 Relation of avoirdupois pound to troy pound
• Section 3 State standards
• Section 4 Additional state standards; replacement of weights
• Section 5 Municipal standards
• Section 6 Safe keeping and preservation of town standards; insurance
• Section 7 Neglect to provide suitable place for keeping standards; loss or damage
• Section 8 Vibrating steelyards
• Section 9 State clinical standard thermometer; certification
• Section 10 Office clinical standard thermometers; verification; comparisons
• Section 11 Tolerances and specifications for clinical thermometers
• Section 12 Inspection and testing of clinical thermometers; certification; fees
• Section 13 Manufacture and sale of clinical thermometers
• Section 14 Penalties for violation of Sec. 13
• Section 14A Glass bottle or jars for lubricating oil; quality; capacity; sealing; revocation of authority; false or insufficient measure; inspection of bottles or jars
• Section 15 Glass bottles or jars for milk or cream; capacity; sealing; designating mark; false measure; revocation of authority
• Section 16 Paper or fibre bottles and jars for milk; capacity; sealing; stamping
• Section 17 Re-use of paper or fibre bottles or jars for milk
• Section 18 Markings on cans or containers for milk; sealing; rules and regulations; revocation of authority; designating marks; false or insufficient measure; inspection
• Section 19 Penalties for violation of Sec. 18
• Section 20 Containers for sale of ice cream; capacity; sealing; designating mark; false or insufficient measure
• Section 21 Semi-annual inspection of ice cream containers
• Section 22 Paper or fibre cartons for sale of viscous or semi-solid commodities; capacity; shape; dimensions; markings
• Section 23 Testing capacity of containers; seizure; complaint; revocation of authority
• Section 24 Penalty for unauthorized marking
• Section 25 Condemnation of weighing or measuring devices; marking; removal of notice
• Section 26 Use or possession of false or condemned devices
• Section 27 Use of unsealed weighing or measuring devices
• Section 28 Recovery of market value of goods for use of unsealed devices
• Section 28A Sealing and testing of meters for measuring liquefied petroleum gas; tolerances; revocation of authority
• Section 29 Powers and duties of deputy director of standards
• Section 29A Civil citation for violation of weights and measures laws; appeal
• Section 30 Repealed, 1935, 60, Sec. 2
• Section 31 Use of seals; imitation or counterfeit seals
• Section 32 Tests, inspections and adjustments of town standards and devices; complaints; enforcement
• Section 33 Testing of weighing and measuring devices in state institutions; reports; appointment of special deputies
• Section 33A Testing of weighing and measuring devices in towns of 5,000 or less inhabitants
• Section 34 Appointment of sealers and deputies in cities and large towns; powers and duties; interference with sealer; compensation; fees; certification
• Section 35 Comprehensive weights and measures enforcement system in small towns; certification of sealers and deputies
• Section 36 Appointment of district sealers; powers and duties; bond; compensation; records; fees; certification
• Section 36A Determination that cities or towns have an inadequate weights and measures enforcement system; assumption of responsibilities
• Section 37 Reports of municipalities; weighing and measuring devices
• Section 38 Duplicate set of apothecaries’ weights and liquid measures
• Section 39 Receipt and accountability of town standards and seal
• Section 40 Duplicate set of weights, measures and balances
• Section 41 Annual testing and sealing of weights and measures; notice; record
• Section 42 Failure to comply with notice; sealing on premises; interference with sealer; penalty
• Section 43 Testing of weighing or measuring devices registering price
• Section 44 Testing of devices for determining measurement of leather; rules and regulations
• Section 45 Testing of taximeters; rules and regulations
• Section 46 Testing of devices for standardizing production and determining wages, capacity of tanks or containers; sealing; condemnation; fee schedule; certificate; accuracy of automatic devices
• Section 46A Bulk milk tanks; calibration and sealing
• Section 47 Annual testing of apothecaries’ weights and measures; sealing; graduated glass measures; approval; designating marks; revocation of authority
• Section 48 Use of untested weights or measures
• Section 49 Annual tests of hay and coal scales
• Section 50 Tests of weighing or measuring devices upon request; results
• Section 51 Sealing of glass milk and cream bottles or jars
• Section 52 Testing incorrect weights or measuring devices upon complaint; entry; use of device
• Section 53 Marking devices with stencil; certificate; notice forbidding use; removal of notice
• Section 54 Seizure of weighing or measuring devices for evidence; disposition
• Section 55 Seizure of devices not conforming to legal standards; destruction
• Section 56 Fees of sealers
• Section 56A Location of scales for food sold at retail
• Section 56B Computing scales for prepackaged meat, poultry or fish; penalty for failure to provide
• Section 56C Placement of cash register; observation of total by customer; penalty
• Section 56D Automated electronic retail check out systems; examination; misrepresentation; penalty
• Section 57 Report
• Section 58 Repealed, 1922, 355, Sec. 8

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