## Uniform Regulation for the Voluntary Registration of Servicepersons and Service Agencies for Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices

as adopted by

The National Conference on Weights and Measures\*

**1.** **Background**

The Uniform Regulation covering the registration of servicepersons and
service agen­cies was developed and adopted by the National Conference on
Weights and Measures in 1966, re­titled in 1983, and substantially
revised in 1984.  It is designed to promote uniformity among those
jurisdic­tions that provide for or are contemplating the establishment of
some type of control over the servicing of commercial weighing and
measuring devices.  It offers to a serviceperson or to a service agency
the opportunity to register and carries with it the privilege of
restoring devices to service and of placing new or used devices in
service.

Two unique features of the registration plan are its voluntary nature
and the provision for reciprocity.  Registration is not required;
how­ever, the privileges gained make it attractive. Also, in order to
provide maximum effectiveness of the program and to reduce to a mini­mum
legal obstacles to service across State lines, provision is made for
reciprocity in certi­fication of standards and testing equipment among
States.

**2.** **Status** **of** **Promulgation**

The table beginning on page 10 shows the status of adoption of the
Uni­form Regu­lation for the Voluntary Registration of Servicepersons and
Service Agencies for Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices.

\*The National Conference on Weights and Measures is supported by the
National Institute of S­tandards and Technology in partial implementation
of its statutory responsibility for \"cooperation with the States in
securing uniformity in weights and measures laws and methods of
inspection.\"

**Table** **of** **Contents**

# Section Page

[1. Policy 126](#__RefHeading___Toc26798619)

[2.  Definitions 126](#__RefHeading___Toc26798620)

[2.1. Registered Serviceperson 126](#__RefHeading___Toc26798621)

[2.2. Registered Service Agency 126](#__RefHeading___Toc26798622)

[2.3. Commercial and Law‑Enforcement Weighing and Measuring Devices
126](#__RefHeading___Toc26798623)

[3.  Registration Fee 127](#__RefHeading___Toc26798624)

[4.  Voluntary Registration 127](#__RefHeading___Toc26798625)

[5.  Minimum Equipment 127](#__RefHeading___Toc26798626)

[6.  Certificate of Registration 127](#__RefHeading___Toc26798627)

[7.  Privileges and Responsibilities of a Voluntary Registrant
127](#__RefHeading___Toc26798628)

[8.  Placed in Service Report 127](#__RefHeading___Toc26798629)

[9.  Examination and Calibration or Certification of Standards and
Testing Equipment 128](#__RefHeading___Toc26798630)

[10.  Revocation of Certificate of Registration
128](#__RefHeading___Toc26798631)

[11.  Publication of Lists of Registered Servicepersons and Registered
Service Agencies 128](#and-registered-service-agencies)

[12.  Effective Date 128](#__RefHeading___Toc26798635)

**Uniform Regulation for the Voluntary**

**Registration of Servicepersons and Service Agencies**

**for Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices**

**Section 1. Policy**[]{#__RefHeading___Toc26798619 .anchor}

For the benefit of the users, manufacturers, and distributors of
commercial weighing and measuring devices, it shall be the policy of the
Director of Weights and Measures, hereinafter referred to as
\"Director,\" to accept registration of (a) an individual and (b) an
agency pro­viding acceptable evi­dence that he, she, or it is fully
qualified by training or experience to install, service, repair, or
re­condition a commercial weighing or measuring device; has a thorough
working knowledge of all appropriate weights and measures laws, orders,
rules, and regulations; and has possession of, or has available for use,
and will use calibrated weights and measures standards and testing
equipment ap­propriate in design and adequate in amount.  (An employee of
the government shall not be eligible for registration.)

The Director will check the qualifications of each applicant. It will be
necessary for an applicant to have available sufficient standards and
equip­ment (see § 5).

It shall also be the policy of the Department to issue to qualified
applicants, whose ap­plications for registra­tion are approved, a
\"Certificate of Regis­tration.\" This gives authority to remove
rejection seals and tags placed on Commercial and Law‑Enforcement
Weighing and Measuring Devices by authorized weights and measures
officials, to place in service repaired devices that were rejected, or
to place in service devices that have been newly installed.

The Director is NOT guaranteeing the work or fair dealing of a
Registered Serviceperson or Service Agency.  He will, however, remove
from the registration list any Registered Service­person or Ser­vice
Agency that per­forms unsatisfactory work or takes unfair advantage of a
device owner.

Registration with the Director shall be on a voluntary basis. The
Director shall reserve the right to limit or reject the application of
any Serviceperson or Service Agency and to revoke his, her, or its
permit to remove rejection seals or tags for good cause.

This policy shall in no way preclude or limit the right and privilege of
any individual or agency not registered with the Director to install,
service, repair, or recondition a commercial weighing or measur­ing
device. (see § 7).

(Added 1966; Amended 1984)­

**Section 2.  Definitions**[]{#__RefHeading___Toc26798620 .anchor}

**2.1. Registered Serviceperson** []{#__RefHeading___Toc26798621
.anchor}**.** ‑‑ The term \"registered service­person\" shall be
construed to mean any individual who for hire, award, com­mission, or any
other payment of any kind, installs, services, repairs, or reconditions
a commercial weighing or measuring device, and who volun­tarily applies
for registration with the Director of Weights and Measures.

(Added 1966)

**2.2. Registered Service Agency** []{#__RefHeading___Toc26798622
.anchor}**.** ‑‑ The term \"registered service agency\" shall be
con­strued to mean any agency, firm, company, or cor­poration that for
hire, award, commission, or any other payment of any kind installs,
services, repairs, or reconditions a commercial weighing or measuring
device, and that voluntarily registers itself as such with the Director
of Weights and Measures. Under agency regis­tration, identification of
individual serviceper­sons shall be re­quired.

(Added 1966; Amended 1984)

**2.3. Commercial and Law‑Enforcement Weighing and Measuring
Devices**[]{#__RefHeading___Toc26798623 .anchor}**.** ‑‑ The term
\"Com­mercial and Law‑Enforcement Weighing and Measuring Device\" shall
be construed to include any weight or measure or weighing or measuring
device com­mercially used or employed in establishing the size, quantity,
extent, area, or measure­ment of quan­tities, things, produce, or articles
for distribu­tion or consumption, pur­chased, offered, or sub­mitted for
sale, hire, or award, or in com­puting any basic charge or payment for
services rendered on the basis of weight or measure.  It shall also
include any accessory attached to or used in connec­tion with a
commercial weighing or meas­uring device when such acces­sory is so
designed or installed that its operation affects the accuracy of the
device.  It also includes weighing and measuring equipment in official
use for the enforcement of law or for the collection of statis­tical
informa­tion by gov­ernment agencies.

(Added 1966; Amended 1984)

**Section 3.  Registration** **Fee**[]{#__RefHeading___Toc26798624
.anchor}

There shall be charged by the Director an annual fee of (\$    ) per
Regis­tered Serviceperson and (\$ ) per Registered Service Agency to
cover costs at the time application for registration is made, and
annually, there­after.

(Added 1966; Amended 1984)

**Section 4.  Voluntary Registration** []{#__RefHeading___Toc26798625
.anchor}

An individual or agency qualified by training or experience may apply
for registration to service weighing devices or measuring devices on an
ap­plication form supplied by the Direc­tor.  Said form, duly signed and
wit­nessed, shall include certification by the applicant that the
individual or agency is fully qualified to install, service, repair, or
recondition whatever devices for the service of which competence is
being registered; has in possession or available for use, and will use,
all necessary testing equipment and standards; and has full knowledge of
all appropriate weights and meas­ures laws, orders, rules, and
regula­tions.  An applicant also shall submit appro­priate evidence or
referen­ces as to qualifications. Application for registration shall be
voluntary, but the Director is authorized to reject or limit any
application.

(Added 1966; Amended 1984)

**Section 5.  Minimum Equipment**[]{#__RefHeading___Toc26798626 .anchor}

Applicants must have available sufficient standards and equipment to
ade­quately test devices as set forth in the Notes section of each
applicable code in NIST Handbook 44, \"Specifications, Toleran­ces, and
Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices.\" When
applicable, this equip­ment will meet the specifica­tions of National
Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 105‑1, \"Specifications
and Tolerances for Reference Standards and Field Standard Weights and
Meas­ures, Specifications and Tolerances for Field Stan­dard Weights (NIST
Class F),\" National Institute of Stan­dards and Technology Handbook
105‑2, \"Specifications and Tolerances for Ref­erence Standards and Field
Standard Weights and Measures, Specifica­tions and Toler­ances for Field
Standard Measuring Flask,\" or Na­tional Institute of Standards and
Technology Handbook 105‑3, \"Specifications and Toler­ances for Reference
Standards and Field Standard Weights and Measures, Specifications and
Tolerances for Graduated Neck Type Volumetric Field Stan­dards.\" See
also § 9.

(Added 1984)

**Section 6.  Certificate of
Registration**[]{#__RefHeading___Toc26798627 .anchor}

The Director will review and check the qualifications of each applicant.
The Director shall issue to the applicant a \"Certificate of
Registration,\" including an assigned registration number if it is
deter­mined that the applicant is qualified. The \"Certificate of
Registration\" will expire 1 year from the date of issuance.

(Added 1966; Amended 1984)

**Section 7.  Privileges and Responsibilities of a Voluntary
Registrant**[]{#__RefHeading___Toc26798628 .anchor}

A bearer of a Certificate of Registration shall have the authority to
remove an official rejec­tion tag or mark placed on a weighing or
measuring device by the authority of the Director; place in ser­vice,
until such time as an official examination can be made, a weighing or
meas­uring device that has been officially rejected; and place in
service, until such time as an official examination can be made, a new
or used weighing or measuring device. The Registered Serviceperson or
Service Agen­cy is responsible for installing, repairing, and adjusting
devices such that the devices are adjusted as closely as prac­ticable to
zero error.

(Added 1966; Amended 1984)

**Section 8.  Placed in Service Report**[]{#__RefHeading___Toc26798629
.anchor}

The Director shall furnish each Registered Serviceperson and Registered
Service Agency with a sup­ply of report forms to be known as \"Placed in
Service Reports.\" Such a form shall be executed in triplicate, shall
include the assigned registration number, and shall be signed by a­
Registered Ser­vice­person or by a serviceperson represen­ting a Registered
Agency for each rejected device restored to service and for each newly
installed device placed in service.  Within 24 hours after a device is
restored to service or placed in service, the original of the properly
executed Placed in Service Re­port, together with any official rejection
tag removed from the device, shall be mailed to the Direc­tor at
[(address) .]{.underline}  The duplicate copy of the report shall be
handed to the owner or operator of the device, and the triplicate copy
of the report shall be retained by the Registered Serviceperson or
Registered Service Agency.

(Added 1966)

**Section 9.  Examination** **and Calibration or Certification**

**of Standards and Testing Equipment**[]{#__RefHeading___Toc26798630
.anchor}

All standards that are used for servicing and testing weights and
measures devices for which competence is registered shall be submitted
to the Director for examination and certification at intervals
determined by the director. A Registered Service­person or Registered
Service Agency shall not use in servicing commercial weighing or
measuring devices any standards or testing equipment that have not been
certified by the Director. Equipment cali­brated by another State weights
and measures laboratory that can show evidence of measurement
traceability to the National Institute of Standards and Technology will
also be recognized as equipment that is suitable for use by Regis­tered
Servicepersons or Registered Service Agencies in this State.

(Added 1966; Amended 1984 and 1999)

**Section 10.  Revocation of Certificate of
Registration**[]{#__RefHeading___Toc26798631 .anchor}

The Director is authorized to suspend or revoke a Certificate of
Registration for good cause which shall include, but not be limited to:
taking of unfair advantage of an owner of a device; failure to have test
equip­ment or standards certified; failure to use adequate testing
equip­ment; or failure to ad­just Commercial or Law‑Enforcement Devices to
comply with Handbook 44 subsequent to service or repair.

(Added 1966; Amended 1984)

## Section 11.  Publication of Lists of Registered Servicepersons 

## and Registered Service Agencies

The Director shall publish, from time to time as he deems appropriate,
and may supply upon re­quest, lists of Registered Servicepersons and
Regis­tered Service Agencies.

(Added 1966)

**Section 12.  Effective Date**[]{#__RefHeading___Toc26798635 .anchor}

This regulation shall become effective on [.]{.underline}

(Added 1966)­