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Copr. © West Group 1997. All rights reserved.
Current through P.A. 90-25, apv. 6/23/97
5/11-53-2. Inspection of weights and measures
ACT 470. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT
470/1. Short title
470/2. Definitions
470/3. Recognition and use of systems
470/4. Barrel, ton and cord, defined
470/5. State standards; safekeeping
470/6. Director--State inspectors--Technical and clerical personnel
470/7. Custody of state standards--Enforcement of this act--General supervision--Reports to Governor
470/8. Regulations--Issuance--Contents
470/8.1. Registration of servicepersons, service agents, and special sealers
470/9. Calibration of field standards procured by cities
470/10. Inspection
470/11. Investigations
470/12. Sampling of packages--Illegal sale--Marking--Sampling procedures-- Restrictions on sale
470/13. Stop-use, stop-removal and removal orders
470/14. Approval, sealing and marking of devices--Seizure and destruction of incorrect or rejected weights and measures
470/15. Special police powers of director
470/16. Powers and duties of designated or appointed qualified persons
470/17. Sealer weights and measures
470/18. § 18. Repealed by P.A. 83-265, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1984
470/19. Powers and duties of city sealer and deputy sealers--Records and reports
470/20. Official city standards--Procurement by city council--Comparisons for accuracy
470/21. Concurrent authority of director in cities having sealers--Municipal ordinances
470/22. Rejected weights and measures
470/23. Sale by liquid measure, weight, measure of length or area or count-- Exceptions--Regulations
470/24. Commodity in package form--Declaration as to contents
470/25. Commodity in package form--Declaration as to price
470/26. Commodity in package form--Misleading containers
470/27. Commodity in package form--Advertisement--Statement of price and declaration of contents
470/28. Net weight
470/29. Advertisement
470/30. National Institute of Standards and Technology requirements and specifications
470/31. § 31. Repealed by P.A. 85-436, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1988
470/32. Certificate of conformance--Appeal
470/33. Manufacture, sale or use of unapproved type of device
470/34 to 470/35. §§ 34 to 35. Repealed by P.A. 85-436, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1988
470/34. §§ 34 to 35. Repealed by P.A. 85-436, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1988
470/35. §§ 34 to 35. Repealed by P.A. 85-436, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1988
470/36. Marking of devices with manufacturer's name and serial number
470/37. Simulation of serial number--Penalty
470/38. § 38. Repealed by P.A. 85-436, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1988
470/39. Sealing of weights, measures and devices--Effect of approval of type
470/40. Inspection fee; Weights and Measures Fund
470/41. Vehicle tank--Measuring devices--Calibration--Certificate of calibration--Marking
470/42. Seal placed on weighing or measuring device; breaking for service; resealing
470/43 to 470/48. §§ 43 to 48. Repealed by P.A. 88-600, § 3.10, eff. Sept. 1, 1994
470/43. §§ 43 to 48. Repealed by P.A. 88-600, § 3.10, eff. Sept. 1, 1994
470/44. §§ 43 to 48. Repealed by P.A. 88-600, § 3.10, eff. Sept. 1, 1994
470/45. §§ 43 to 48. Repealed by P.A. 88-600, § 3.10, eff. Sept. 1, 1994
470/46. §§ 43 to 48. Repealed by P.A. 88-600, § 3.10, eff. Sept. 1, 1994
470/47. §§ 43 to 48. Repealed by P.A. 88-600, § 3.10, eff. Sept. 1, 1994
470/48. §§ 43 to 48. Repealed by P.A. 88-600, § 3.10, eff. Sept. 1, 1994
470/49. Sale from bulk
470/50, 470/51. §§ 50, 51. Repealed by P.A. 88-600, § 3.10, eff. Sept. 1, 1994
470/50. §§ 50, 51. Repealed by P.A. 88-600, § 3.10, eff. Sept. 1, 1994
470/51. §§ 50, 51. Repealed by P.A. 88-600, § 3.10, eff. Sept. 1, 1994
470/52. Standard weight per bushel for agricultural commodities
470/53. Fractional parts of units of weight or measure--Sale at fractional parts of value of unit
470/54. Hindrance or obstruction of officials
470/55. Impersonation of officials
470/56. Violations
470/56.1. Administrative penalties; judicial review
470/56.2. Decisions published
470/57. § 57. Repealed by P.A. 76-656, § 2, eff. Aug. 6, 1969
470/58. Injunctions
470/59. Presumptive proof of use of device for commercial purposes
470/60. Prosecutions
470/61. Severability clause
DIVISION 53. INSPECTION AND USE OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
§ 11-53-2. The corporate authorities of each municipality may provide for the inspection and sealing of weights and measures.
IL ST CH 225 s 470/2
Formerly cited as IL ST CH 147 ¶ 102
"Certificate of Conformance" means a document issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology based on testing in participating laboratories that indicates that the weights and measures or weighing and measuring device conform with the requirements of National Institute of Standards and Technology's Handbooks 44, 105-1, 105-2, 105-3, or 105-4 and any subsequent revisions or supplements thereto.
1969; P.A. 83-265, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984; P.A. 85-436, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.
IL ST CH 225 s 470/3
§ 3. Recognition and use of systems. The system of weights and measures in customary use in the United States and the metric system of weights and measures are jointly recognized, and one or the other of these systems shall be used for all commercial purposes in this State. The definitions of basic units of weight and measure, the tables of weight and measure, and weights and measures equivalents, as published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, are recognized and shall govern weighing and measuring equipment and transactions in this State.
IL ST CH 225 s 470/8.1
Formerly cited as IL ST CH 147 ¶ 108.1
§ 8.1. Registration of servicepersons, service agents, and special sealers. No person, firm, or corporation shall sell, install, service, recondition or repair a weighing or measuring device used in trade or commerce without first obtaining a certificate of registration. Applications by individuals for a certificate of registration shall be made to the Department, shall be in writing on forms prescribed by the Department, and shall be accompanied by the required fee.
(1) Has possession of or available for use weights and measures, standards, and testing equipment appropriate in design and adequate in amount to provide the services for which the person is requesting registration.
(2) Passes a qualifying examination for each type of weighing or measuring device he intends to install, service, recondition, or repair.
(3) Demonstrates a working knowledge of weighing and measuring devices for which he intends to be registered.
(4) Has a working knowledge of all appropriate weights and measures laws and their rules and regulations.
(5) Has available a current copy of National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 44.
(6) Pays the prescribed registration fee for the type of registration:
(A) The annual fee for a Serviceperson Certificate of Registration shall be $5.
(B) The annual fee for a Special Sealer Certificate of Registration shall be $25.
(C) The annual fee for a Service Agency Certificate of Registration shall be $25.
Each registered service agency and serviceperson shall have report forms, known as "Placed in Service Reports". These forms shall be executed in triplicate, shall include the assigned registration number (in the case where a registered serviceperson is representing a registered service agency both assigned registration numbers shall be included), and shall be signed by a registered serviceperson or by a registered serviceperson representing a registered service agency for each rejected or repaired device restored to service and for each newly installed device placed in service. Whenever a registered serviceperson or special sealer places into service a weighing or measuring device, there shall be affixed to the device indicator a decal provided by the Department that indicates the device accuracy.
Within 5 days after a device is restored to service or placed in service, the original of a properly executed "Placed in Service Report", together with any official rejection tag or seal removed from the device, shall be mailed to the Department. 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 service agency or serviceperson.
A registered service agency and a registered serviceperson shall submit, at least once every 2 years to the Department for examination and certification, any standards and testing equipment that are used, or are to be used, in the performance of the service and testing functions with respect to weighing and measuring devices for which competence is registered. A registered serviceperson or agency shall not use in servicing commercial weighing and measuring devices any standards or testing equipment that have not been certified by the Department.
When a serviceperson's or service agency's weights and measures are carried to a National Institute of Standards and Technology approved out-of-state weights and measures laboratory for inspection and testing, the serviceperson or service agency shall be responsible for providing the Department a copy of the current certification of all weights and measures used in the repair, service, or testing of weighing or measuring devices within the State of Illinois.
All registered servicepersons placing into service scales in excess of 30,000 pounds shall have a minimum of 10,000 pounds of State approved certified test weights to accurately test a scale.
All final administrative decisions of the Director under this Section shall be subject to judicial review under the Administrative Review Law. [FN1] The term "administrative decision" is defined as in Section 1 of the Administrative Review Law. [FN2]
IL ST CH 225 s 470/10
Formerly cited as IL ST CH 147 ¶ 110
§ 10. Inspection. Unless otherwise provided by law, the Director may inspect and test all weights and measures held, offered, or exposed for sale to ascertain if they are correct. Except as otherwise provided in Section 43, the Director shall, within each period of 12 months or more frequently if necessary, inspect and test all law enforcement scales used to determine vehicle weights and all weights and measures commercially used (1) in determining the weight, measurement, or count of commodities or things sold or offered or exposed for sale on the basis of weight, measure, or count or (2) in computing the basic charge or payment for services rendered on the basis of weight, measure, or count to ascertain if they are correct. However, with respect to single-service devices (meaning those designed to be used commercially only once and then discarded) and devices uniformly mass-produced, as by means of a mold or die, and not susceptible to individual adjustment, such tests may be made on representative samples of these devices. The lots of which such samples are representative shall be held to be correct or incorrect upon the basis of the results of the inspections and tests on the samples
IL ST CH 225 s 470/13
Formerly cited as IL ST CH 147 ¶ 113
§ 13. The director may issue stop-use orders, stop-removal orders and removal orders with respect to weights and measures being or susceptible of being commercially used, and may issue stop-removal orders and removal orders with respect to packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered or exposed for sale or sold or in process of delivery, whenever in the course of his enforcement of the provisions of this Act he deems it necessary or expedient to issue such orders. No person shall use, remove or fail to remove from the premises specified any weight, measure or package or amount of commodity contrary to the terms of a stop-use order, stop-removal order or removal order issued pursuant to this Section.
IL ST CH 225 s 470/14
Formerly cited as IL ST CH 147 ¶ 114
§ 14. Upon inspection and test, the director shall approve for use and may seal or mark with appropriate devices such weights and measures as he finds to be "correct" and shall reject and mark or tag as "rejected" such weights and measures as he finds to be "incorrect" (but susceptible of satisfactory repair), as defined in Section 8 of this Act. Such sealing or marking is unnecessary with respect to such weights and measures as may be exempted therefrom by a regulation of the director issued pursuant to Section 8 of this Act. The director shall condemn and may seize and may destroy weights and measures found to be "incorrect" which, in his best judgment, are not susceptible of satisfactory repair. Weights and measures that have been rejected may be confiscated and destroyed by the director if not corrected pursuant to, or if used or disposed of contrary to, Section 22 of this Act.
IL ST CH 225 s 470/15
§ 15. To enforce this Act and other Acts dealing with weights and measures and enforceable by him, the director is vested with special police powers, and may without formal warrant both arrest any violator of such Acts and seize for use as evidence incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts or packages of commodity found to be used, retained, offered or exposed for sale or sold in violation of law. In performance of his official duties, the director may enter and go into or upon any structure or premises without formal warrant and may stop any person and require him to proceed, with or without any vehicle of which he may be in control, to a place specified by the director.
§ 16. The powers and duties given to and imposed upon the director by Sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21 and 56 of this Act shall also be conferred upon the designated or appointed qualified persons, whenever they act under the instructions and at the direction of the director.
IL ST CH 225 s 470/17
§ 17. Sealer weights and measures. In and for each city having a population of 25,000 or more according to the latest official United States census, there may be a sealer of weights and measures and such deputy sealers of weights and measures as may be required. A city sealer is required to attend annual training workshops conducted by the Department.
IL ST CH 225 s 470/19
§ 19. The sealer of a city, and each of his deputy sealers when acting under his instructions and at his direction, has the same powers and duties within the city for which appointed as are conferred upon the director by Sections 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 56 of this Act. With respect to Section 10, in cities of less than 200,000 population, the powers and duties shall be strictly limited to weighing and measuring devices used in retail trade including, for example, weighing scales of a nominal capacity not greater than 400 pounds, retail liquid-measuring devices, taximeters, odometers, fabric-measuring devices and cordage-measuring devices.
The city inspector of weights and measures shall keep a complete record of all his official acts and shall submit an annual report to the council of the city, and an annual report (on July 1) under oath to the Director of Agriculture on blanks furnished by him, and any special reports that the Director of Agriculture may request.
IL ST CH 225 s 470/21
§ 21. In cities for which sealers of weights and measures have been appointed pursuant to this Act, the director shall have concurrent authority to enforce the provisions of this Act. The legislative body of each such city may, by ordinance, prescribe the duties of the sealer and enact regulatory measures more restrictive than, but otherwise consistent with, the provisions of this Act.
IL ST CH 225 s 470/54
§ 54. A person who in any way hinders or obstructs the director, his authorized representative, any one of the inspectors or a sealer, deputy sealer or special sealer, in the performance of his official duties is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
§ 56. (1) A person who, by himself or herself or by his or her employee or agent or as the employee or agent of another person, performs any of the acts enumerated in subparagraphs (A) through (J) of this Section is guilty of a business offense and shall be fined not less than $500 for the first offense; not less than $1,500 on a second offense; and not less than $2,500 for a third offense.
(A) Use or possess for the purpose of using for any commercial purpose specified in Section 10 of this Act, sell, offer, or expose for sale or hire, or possess for the purpose of selling or hiring, an incorrect weight or measure or any device or instrument used to or calculated to falsify any weight or measure.
(B) Use or possess for the purpose of current use for any commercial purpose specified in Section 10 of this Act, a weight or measure without a seal or mark as required by Section 14 or Section 43, unless such weight or measure has been exempted from testing by the provisions of Section 10, or by a regulation of the director issued under the authority of Section 8, of this Act.
(D) Remove from any weight or measure, contrary to law or regulation, any tag, seal or mark placed thereon by the appropriate authority.
(E) Sell or offer or expose for sale less than the quantity he or she represents of any commodity, thing or service.
(F) Take more than the quantity he represents of any commodity, thing or service, when, as buyer, he or she furnishes the weight or measure by means of which the amount of the commodity, thing or service is determined.
(G) Retain for the purpose of sale, advertise, or offer or expose for sale, or sell, any commodity, thing or service in a condition or manner contrary to law or regulation.
(H) Use in retail trade, except in preparation of packages put up in advance of sale and of medical prescriptions, a weight or measure that is not so positioned that its indications may be accurately read and the weighing or measuring operation observed from a position which may reasonably be assumed by a customer.
(I) By himself or herself or by the person's agent, or as servant or agent of another person, fail to disclose to the Department of Agriculture any knowledge of information relating to, or observation of, any device or instrument added to or modifying any weight or measure for the purpose of selling, or offering or exposing for sale, less than the quantity represented of a commodity or calculated to falsify the weight or measure, if the person is an owner or employee of an entity involved in the installation, repair, sale, or inspection of weighing or measuring devices.
(J) Violate a provision of this Act or of the regulations promulgated pursuant to this Act for which a specific penalty has not been prescribed.
(A) Adds to or modifies a commercial weight or measure by the addition of a device or instrument that would allow the sale, or the offering or exposure for sale, of less than the quantity represented of a commodity or falsification of the weight or measure.
(B) Commits as a fourth or subsequent offense any of the acts listed in subsection (1) of this Section, violates a written notice from the Department, or removes a Department seal.
IL ST CH 225 s 470/56.1
§ 56.1. Administrative penalties; judicial review. When an administrative hearing is held, the hearing officer, upon determination of any violation of Section 56(1), shall refer the violation to the States Attorney's Office in the county which the business is conducted for prosecution or levy the following administrative monetary penalties:
(A) A penalty of $100 for a first violation.
(B) A penalty of $750 for a second violation at the same location within 2 years of the first violation.
(C) A penalty of $1,500 for a third or subsequent violation at the same location within 2 years of the second violation.
All final administrative decisions of the Department are subject to judicial review under the Administrative Review Law. [FN1] The term "administrative decision" is defined as in Section 4-101 of the Code of Civil Procedure. [FN2]
IL ST CH 225 s 470/58
§ 58. The director may file a complaint and apply to the circuit court for, and such court upon hearing and for cause shown may grant, a temporary restraining order or a preliminary or permanent injunction restraining any person from violating this Act.