General Laws of Massachusetts (Last Updated: January 16, 2020) |
PART I ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT |
TITLE XV. REGULATION OF TRADE |
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. Examination and testing of automated retail checkout systems |
SECTION 57. Report |
SECTION 58. Repealed, 1922, 355, Sec. 8 |