Source: http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.94&full=true
Timestamp: 2018-07-17 00:19:50
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19.94.005
19.94.010
19.94.015
19.94.150
19.94.160
19.94.163
19.94.165
Commercial instruments or devices to be correct.
19.94.175
Registration—Inspection and testing—Fees.
19.94.185
19.94.190
19.94.195
19.94.205
19.94.216
Department inspection—City sealer—Agencies, institutions—Fees.
19.94.220
19.94.230
19.94.240
19.94.250
19.94.255
19.94.258
19.94.2582
Service agent—Registration certificate—Fee—Decision—Denial—Notice—Refund.
19.94.2584
19.94.260
19.94.265
19.94.280
19.94.310
19.94.320
19.94.325
19.94.340
19.94.350
19.94.360
19.94.370
19.94.390
19.94.400
19.94.410
19.94.420
19.94.430
Packaged flour to be kept, sold, etc., in certain units.
19.94.440
19.94.450
19.94.460
19.94.470
19.94.480
19.94.485
19.94.490
19.94.500
19.94.507
19.94.510
19.94.515
19.94.517
19.94.520
19.94.530
19.94.540
19.94.542
19.94.544
19.94.900
19.94.920
(1) Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter and to any rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.
(a) "City" means a first-class city with a population of over fifty thousand persons.
(l) "Official seal of approval" means the seal or certificate issued by the director or city sealer which indicates that a secondary weights and measures standard or a weighing or measuring instrument or device conforms with the specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements adopted in RCW 19.94.195.
(q) "Weighing or measuring instrument or device" means any equipment or apparatus used commercially to establish the size, quantity, capacity, count, extent, area, heaviness, or measurement of quantities, things, produce, or articles for distribution or consumption, that are purchased, offered or submitted for sale, hire, or award on the basis of weight, measure or count, including any accessory attached to or used in connection with a weighing or measuring instrument or device when such accessory is so designed or installed that its operation affects, or may effect, the accuracy or indication of the device. This definition shall be strictly limited to those weighing or measuring instruments or devices governed by Handbook 44 as adopted under RCW 19.94.195.
[ 1995 c 355 § 4; 1992 c 237 § 3; 1969 c 67 § 1.]
Weights and measures standards that are in conformity with the standards of the United States as have been supplied to the state by the federal government or otherwise obtained by the state for use as state weights and measures standards, shall, when the same shall have been certified as such by the national institute of standards and technology or any successor organization, be the primary standards of weight and measure. The state weights and measures standards shall be kept in a place designated by the director and shall be maintained in such calibration as prescribed by the national institute of standards and technology or any successor organization.
[ 1995 c 355 § 5; 1992 c 237 § 5; 1991 sp.s. c 23 § 5; 1969 c 67 § 16.]
(1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section and RCW 19.94.190(1)(d), the department shall test and inspect each biennium a sufficient number of weighing and measuring instruments and devices to ensure that the provisions of this chapter are enforced.
All weighing or measuring instruments or devices used for commercial purposes within this state shall be correct.
[ 1995 c 355 § 6; 1992 c 237 § 6.]
[ 2006 c 358 § 2; (2006 c 358 § 1 expired July 1, 2007); 1995 c 355 § 7; 1992 c 237 § 7.]
For the purposes of this chapter, weighing or measuring instruments or devices and weights and measures standards shall be deemed to be "correct" when they conform to all applicable requirements of this chapter or the requirements of any rule adopted by the department under the authority granted in this chapter; all other weighing or measuring instruments or devices and weights and measures standards shall be deemed to be "incorrect."
[ 1992 c 237 § 11.]
(1) Biennially inspect and test the secondary weights and measures standards of any city for which the appointment of a city sealer is provided by this chapter and shall issue an official seal of approval for same when found to be correct. The department shall, by rule, establish a reasonable fee for this and any other inspection and testing services performed by the department's metrology laboratory. Each such fee shall recover at least seventy-five percent of the laboratory's costs incurred in performing the service governed by the fee on or before June 30, 1998. The fees established under this subsection may be increased in excess of the fiscal growth factor as provided in RCW 43.135.055 for the fiscal year ending 1996, 1997, and 1998. For fiscal year 1999 and thereafter, the fees established under this subsection may not be increased by an amount greater than the fiscal growth factor as provided in RCW 43.135.055.
(2) Biennially inspect and test any weighing or measuring instrument or device used in an agency or institution to which moneys are appropriated by the legislature or of the federal government and shall report any findings in writing to the executive officer of the agency or institution concerned. The department shall collect a reasonable fee, to be set by rule, for testing any such weighing or measuring instrument or device.
[ 1995 c 355 § 10; 1992 c 237 § 12.]
(4) If a weighing or measuring instrument or device marked or tagged as rejected is placed back into commercial service by a service agent registered with the department, the agent shall provide a signed certification to the owner or operator of the instrument or device so indicating and shall report to the rejecting authority as provided by rule under RCW 19.94.190(1)(c).
(1) Except as authorized by the department, a service agent who intends to provide the examination that permits a weighing or measuring instrument or device to be placed back into commercial service under RCW 19.94.255(3) shall receive an official registration certificate from the director prior to performing such a service. This registration requirement does not apply to the department or a city sealer.
(2) Except as provided in RCW 19.94.2584, a registration certificate is valid for one year. It may be renewed by submitting a request for renewal to the department.
[ 2000 c 171 § 61; 1995 c 355 § 15.]
(1) Each request for an official registration certificate must be in writing, under oath, and on a form prescribed by the department and must contain any relevant information as the director may require, including but not limited to the following:
(b) The names and addresses of all individuals requesting an official registration certificate from the department; and
(2) Each individual when submitting a request for an official registration certificate or a renewal of such a certificate must pay a fee to the department in the amount of one hundred sixty dollars per individual.
(3) The department must issue a decision on a request for an official registration certificate within twenty days of receipt of the request. If an individual is denied their request for an official registration certificate, the department must notify that individual in writing stating the reasons for the denial and must refund any payments made by that individual in connection with the request.
[ 2013 c 144 § 35; 2006 c 358 § 5; 1995 c 355 § 16. Formerly RCW 19.94.025.]
(1) The department shall have the power to revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew the official registration certificate of any service agent for any of the following reasons:
(2) Upon the department's revocation of, suspension of, or refusal to renew an official registration certificate, an individual shall have the right to appeal this decision in accordance with the administrative procedure act, chapter 34.05 RCW.
[ 2000 c 171 § 62; 1995 c 355 § 17. Formerly RCW 19.94.035.]
(4) The city sealer shall test and inspect a sufficient number of weighing and measuring instruments and devices to ensure that the provisions of this chapter are enforced in the city. This subsection does not apply to weighing or measuring instruments or devices for which the sealer does not have the necessary testing or inspection equipment or to instruments or devices that are to be inspected by the department under RCW 19.94.216(2).
[ 1992 c 237 § 23.]
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, commodities in liquid form shall be sold only by liquid measure or by weight, and, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, commodities not in liquid form shall be sold only by weight, by measure of length or area, or by count.
(a) Commodities that are sold for immediate consumption on the premises where sold;
[ 1992 c 237 § 24; 1991 sp.s. c 23 § 15; 1969 c 67 § 34.]
Butter, oleomargarine and margarine shall be offered and exposed for sale and sold by weight.
[ 1995 c 355 § 19; 1988 c 63 § 1; 1969 c 67 § 41.]
When in package form and when packed, kept, offered, exposed for sale or sold, flour such as, but not limited to, wheat flour, whole wheat flour, graham flour, self-rising wheat flour, phosphated wheat flour, bromated flour, enriched flour, enriched self-rising flour, enriched bromated flour, corn flour, corn meal and hominy grits shall be packaged only in units of five, ten, twenty-five, fifty and one hundred pounds avoirdupois weight: PROVIDED, That packages in units of less than five pounds or more than one hundred pounds shall be permitted.
[ 1969 c 67 § 43.]
Any person who shall hinder or obstruct in any way the director or a city sealer in the performance of his or her official duties under this chapter is subject to a civil penalty of no more than five hundred dollars.
[ 1992 c 237 § 32; 1969 c 67 § 49.]
Any person who shall impersonate in any way the director or a city sealer, by using an official seal of approval without specific authorization to do so or by using a counterfeit seal of approval, or in any other manner, is subject to a civil penalty of no more than one thousand dollars.
[ 1992 c 237 § 33; 1969 c 67 § 50.]
(1) Any person who, by himself or herself, by his or her agent or employee, or as the agent or employee of another person, performs any one of the acts enumerated in (a) through (l) of this subsection is subject to a civil penalty of no more than one thousand dollars:
(2) Any person who, by himself or herself, by his or her agent or employee, or as the agent or employee of another person, violates RCW 19.94.390 as determined by the examination procedure adopted by or under RCW 19.94.390(2) is subject to a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars.
(3) Any person who, by himself or herself, by his or her agent or employee, or as the agent or employee of another person, performs any of the following acts is subject to a civil penalty of no more than five thousand dollars:
(b) Commits as a fourth or subsequent infraction any of the acts listed in subsection (1) or (2) of this section.
[ 1995 c 355 § 21; 1992 c 237 § 35; 1969 c 67 § 51.]
A person who owns a weighing or measuring instrument or device and uses or permits the use of the instrument for commercial purposes in violation of RCW 19.94.015 is subject to a civil penalty of fifty dollars for each such instrument or device used or permitted to be used in violation of RCW 19.94.015.
[ 1995 c 355 § 22.]
(1) Whenever the department or a city sealer tests or inspects a weighing or measuring instrument or device and finds the instrument or device to be incorrect to the economic benefit of the owner/operator of the weighing or measuring instrument or device and to the economic detriment of the customer, the owner of the weighing or measuring instrument or device may be subject to the following civil penalties:
(3) The director or a city sealer shall issue the appropriate civil penalty concurrently with the conclusion of the test or inspection.
(4) The weighing or measuring instrument or device owner shall have the right to appeal the civil penalty in accordance with the administrative procedure act, chapter 34.05 RCW.
[ 1995 c 355 § 23.]