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239.003 IMPLEMENTATION RULES; COMMISSIONER OF ADMINISTRATION.
239.012 SYSTEMS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; RULES.
239.28 DRY MEASURE.
239.29 LIQUID MEASURE.
239.30 LINEAL MEASURE.
239.31 HUNDREDWEIGHT.
239.35 STANDARD WEIGHT OF FLOUR.
239.36 FRACTIONAL PARTS.
239.51 STANDARD WEIGHTS OF CERTAIN CONTAINERS.
239.511 CONTAINERS FOR SMALL FRUITS.
239.53 USING FALSE WEIGHT OR MEASURE.
239.54 INSPECTION OF MOTOR OIL AND AUTOMOTIVE BATTERY RETAILERS.
239.752 STORAGE TANK MARKING; RETAIL LOCATION.
In recognition of the facts that (1) only about one dozen countries in the world have not yet adopted or begun to implement the metric system of weights and measures; (2) the United States is one, and the only major industrialized nation, of that remaining number; (3) the secretary of commerce of the United States, pursuant to a two-year study under the Metric Study Act of 1968, has recommended that the United States now begin a deliberate change to the metric system; (4) economists and other students of international trade recognize the pressing necessity of such a change if this country is to maintain and improve its rightful place in the world trade community; and (5) as the continued economic growth of this state and its local industry is inextricably linked with the ability of the United States to hold and competitively serve foreign export markets, it is, therefore, declared to be in the best interest of the state of Minnesota and its citizens that this state now begin the gradual but deliberate implementation of the metric system of weights and measures.
1974 c 474 s 2; 1986 c 444
(a) The commissioner of administration shall have general supervisory authority over the implementation of the metric system in the state of Minnesota.
(b) The commissioner of administration shall promulgate such rules as may be necessary to plan for the gradual implementation in the commerce of this state the metric system of weights and measures. The rules promulgated by the commissioner of administration pursuant to this subdivision shall:
(1) provide for the full conversion of the commerce of this state to the metric system when this system has been fully adopted as national standards by the Congress of the United States; and
(2) insure that all state departments, divisions, agencies, boards, and commissions having any authority and/or responsibility in matters concerning standards of weights and measurement in this state shall forthwith initiate planning for the gradual conversion to and implementation of the metric system of weights and measures in this state.
1974 c 474 s 3; 1985 c 248 s 70
Subdivision 1.Recognized systems.
The system of weights and measures in customary use in the United States and the metric system of weights and measures are both recognized. One or both of these systems must be used for commercial purposes in the state.
The department shall adopt by rule definitions of basic units of weights and measures, tables of weights and measures, and weights and measures equivalents to govern weighing and measuring equipment and transactions in the state.
1991 c 198 s 3
Subd. 15. Ethanol blender.
"Refinery" or "terminal" means a petroleum refinery, pipeline terminal, river terminal, storage facility, or other point of origin where petroleum products are manufactured, or imported by rail, truck, barge, or pipe; and held, stored, transferred, offered for distribution, distributed, offered for sale, or sold. For the purpose of restricting petroleum product blending, this definition includes all refineries and terminals within and outside of Minnesota, but does not include a licensed distributor's bulk storage facility that is used to store petroleum products for which the petroleum inspection fee charged under this chapter is either not due or has been paid.
(5283, 5285-11) 1911 c 156 s 12; 1935 c 216 s 1; 1949 c 549 s 1,2; 1Sp1981 c 4 art 1 s 97; 1991 c 198 s 5; 1992 c 575 s 3-22,53; 1994 c 510 art 5 s 1; 1996 c 354 s 1-7; 1998 c 299 s 30; 1Sp2001 c 4 art 6 s 77; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 4 s 60,61,123; 2008 c 297 art 1 s 47
The department shall prescribe and adopt such rules as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, and it may change, modify, or amend any or all rules when deemed necessary and the rules so made shall have the force and effect of law.
(5275) 1911 c 156 s 3; 1971 c 25 s 67; 1985 c 248 s 70
The department shall supervise and inspect all track scales, and may direct any carrier to transport, move, and switch to any track scale free of charge any car used in the inspection and testing of scales. The department shall require the installation and maintenance of track scales at terminals, warehouses, and at other points in the state where scales are deemed necessary. The department shall prescribe reasonable rules for the weighing of railroad cars and of freight. Rules of the department promulgated under chapter 218 and in effect on January 1, 1976, which pertain to installation or inspection of track scales or the weighing of railroad cars and freight shall continue in effect until amended or repealed by the department.
1980 c 460 s 31; 1985 c 248 s 70
(3) during normal business hours, authorized to enter commercial premises;
(4) if the premises are not open to the public, authorized to enter commercial premises only after presenting credentials and obtaining consent or after obtaining a search warrant;
(5) empowered to issue stop-use, hold, and removal orders with respect to weights and measures commercially used, and packaged commodities or bulk commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale, that do not comply with the weights and measures laws;
(6) empowered, upon reasonable suspicion of a violation of the weights and measures laws, to stop a commercial vehicle and, after presentation of credentials, inspect the contents of the vehicle, require that the person in charge of the vehicle produce documents concerning the contents, and require the person to proceed with the vehicle to some specified place for inspection; and
(7) empowered, after written warning, to issue citations of not less than $100 and not more than $500 to a person who violates any provision of this chapter, any provision of the rules adopted under the authority contained in this chapter, or any provision of statutes enforced by the Division of Weights and Measures.
(5280) 1911 c 156 s 8; 1971 c 25 s 44; 1971 c 74 s 9; 1Sp1981 c 4 art 1 s 98; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 348 s 34; 1991 c 198 s 6; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 4 s 62
1991 c 198 s 7
1991 c 198 s 8; 2007 c 36 s 3
1991 c 198 s 9; 2007 c 36 s 4
(a) An inspection fee is imposed (1) on petroleum products when received by the first licensed distributor, and (2) on petroleum products received and held for sale or use by any person when the petroleum products have not previously been received by a licensed distributor. The petroleum inspection fee is $1 for every 1,000 gallons received. The commissioner of revenue shall collect the fee. The revenue from 81 cents of the fee is appropriated to the commissioner of commerce for the cost of operations of the Division of Weights and Measures, petroleum supply monitoring, and to make grants to providers of low-income weatherization services to install renewable energy equipment in households that are eligible for weatherization assistance under Minnesota's weatherization assistance program state plan. The remainder of the fee must be deposited in the general fund.
When the department estimates that inspection costs will exceed the revenue from the fee, the commissioner shall notify the commissioner of finance. The commissioner of finance shall then request a fee increase from the legislature.
1993 c 369 s 72; 1996 c 305 art 3 s 29; 1998 c 299 s 30; 1999 c 250 art 3 s 25; 1Sp2001 c 5 art 13 s 4; 1Sp2003 c 19 art 1 s 8; 2004 c 189 s 2; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 4 s 63; 2007 c 57 art 3 s 40
The standard measure of capacity for commodities sold by dry measure shall be the bushel containing 2150.42 cubic inches. The half bushel, peck, half peck, quarter peck, quart, and pint shall be derived by successively dividing that measure by two.
(7021) RL s 2724; 1913 c 560 s 1
The standard measure of capacity for liquids shall be the wine gallon, containing 231 cubic inches; and 31.50 gallons shall constitute a barrel, except for fermented malt liquors which shall be a barrel of 31 gallons, and 63 gallons a hogshead.
(7022) RL s 2725; 1913 c 560 s 2
The standard measure of length, from which all other measures of extension, lineal, superficial, or solid, shall be derived, is the yard, of three feet, or 36 inches.
(7023) RL s 2726; 1913 c 560 s 2
In contracts for the sale of goods or commodities, the term "hundredweight" shall mean 100 pounds avoirdupois.
(7024) RL s 2727; 1913 c 560 s 3
In all contracts for the sale of flour, the term "barrel" shall mean 196 net pounds avoirdupois.
(7028) 1913 c 560 s 7
All contracts for the sale of a fractional part of a bushel, barrel, ton, or cord of any article or commodity on which the legal weight or measurement per bushel, barrel, ton, or cord has been established, shall require and mean a like fractional part of the legal and established weight or measurement per bushel, barrel, ton, or cord.
(7029) 1913 c 560 s 8
Whoever in buying shall take any greater number of pounds or cubic feet to the bushel, barrel, ton, or cord, as the case may be, than is allowed and provided in sections 239.28 to 239.36, or in selling, shall give any less number, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(7030) 1913 c 560 s 9; 1977 c 364 s 19; 1991 c 198 s 11
All fines collected under the provisions of sections 239.28 to 239.38 shall be paid to the county treasurer for the benefit of the school fund of the county where the action is brought.
(7035) RL s 2732; 1976 c 239 s 76
Subdivision 1.Standard weights; exceptions.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, corporation, company, cooperative society, or organization to pack for sale, sell, offer or expose for sale in this state any of the following commodities except in containers of net avoirdupois weights of 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 pounds, and multiples of 100 pounds: wheat flour, self-rising wheat flour, phosphated wheat flour, bromated flour, enriched flour, enriched self-rising flour, enriched bromated flour, corn flour, corn meals, hominy, and hominy grits.
(1) the retailing of flours, meals, hominy, and hominy grits direct to the consumer from bulk stock;
(2) the sale of flours and meals to commercial bakers or blenders in containers of more than 100 pounds or for export;
(3) flours, meals, hominy, and hominy grits packed in containers the net contents of which are less than three pounds;
(4) the exchange of wheat for flour by mills grinding for toll.
Any violation of this section constitutes a misdemeanor.
1945 c 295
Subdivision 1.Legal size.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, or give away, any containers for the distribution of berries or small fruits in less quantities than one bushel, unless the containers are of the capacity of one quart, one pint, or one-half pint, or multiples of a quart standard dry measure, and all sales of raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, currants, gooseberries, strawberries, and similar berries, and all plums, cherries, and similar small fruit, in less quantities than one bushel shall be by dry measure, or in containers as above specified. The possession of containers for berries or small fruit shall be presumptive evidence that they were to be used for distribution. This subdivision shall not require containers as above specified when such berries and small fruits are picked by the consumer on the grower's property.
Subd. 2.Refilling.
In no case shall such containers be refilled for use in the sale of berries or small fruits of any kind whatsoever.
Any person violating the provisions of subdivisions 1 and 2 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a penalty of not less than $10 nor more than $100 or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten nor more than 90 days.
(10402, 10403, 10404) 1913 c 66 s 1-3; 1971 c 137 s 1
Every person who shall injure or defraud another by using, with knowledge that the same is false, a false weight, measure, or other apparatus for determining the quantity of any commodity or article of merchandise, or by knowingly delivering less than the quantity represented; or who shall retain any weight or measure, knowing it to be false, unless it appears beyond a reasonable doubt that it was so retained without intent to use it, or permit it to be used in violation of the foregoing provisions of this section; or who shall knowingly mark or stamp false or short weights or false tare on any cask or package, or knowingly sell or offer for sale any cask or package so marked, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(10401) RL s 5115; 1986 c 444
The division shall produce, print, and distribute the notices required by sections 325E.11 and 325E.115 and shall inspect all places where motor oil and motor oil filters are offered for sale by persons subject to section 325E.11 and where lead acid batteries are offered for sale at retail subject to section 325E.115 at least once every two years to determine compliance with those sections. In performing its duties under this section the division may inspect any place, building, or premises governed by sections 325E.11 and 325E.115. Authorized employees of the division may issue warnings and citations to persons who fail to comply with the requirements of those sections.
1987 c 348 s 36; 1995 c 220 s 115
1992 c 575 s 24; 2007 c 62 s 1; 2008 c 281 s 1
Subdivision 1.Identification tag required.
A person responsible for the product shall securely affix a metal identification tag on the fill pipe of a petroleum product storage tank at a business where petroleum products are sold, offered for sale, or dispensed at retail into the storage tanks of motor vehicles. A bulk storage facility operator shall securely affix a metal identification tag on the fill pipe of each storage tank at the distributor's bulk storage facility. The identification tag must be constructed and printed according to subdivision 2 and installed according to subdivision 3. The identification tag must be printed with the appropriate product identification according to subdivision 4, 5, or 6. This section does not apply to storage tanks at petroleum refineries or terminals.
Subd. 2.Identification tag; construction, printing.
The identification tag required in subdivision 1 must be constructed of one 3-1/2 inch by 3-1/2 inch piece of aluminum or stainless steel. All surfaces of the tag must be coated with a permanent enamel paint or powder coating. The coating must be light blue for gasoline and alcohol products and dark green for petroleum distillate products. Lettering must be at least three-eighths of one inch high, and printed on the tag with permanent enamel paint or powder coating. Lettering must be black for gasoline and alcohol products and white for petroleum distillate products.
Subd. 3.Identification tag; installation.
The identification tag required in subdivision 1 must be securely affixed to a fill pipe by means of an adjustable steel band clamp. The display surface of the tag must be positioned so that the product information can be easily read by a person filling the storage tank.
Subd. 4.Product identification; gasoline, oxygenated gasoline.
(a) An identification tag placed on a storage tank containing gasoline or oxygenated gasoline must be marked with the word "GASOLINE" and with the correct octane number and the appropriate product name of the fuel stored in the tank.
Subd. 5.Product identification; alcohol, alcohol-based motor fuel.
(a) An identification tag placed on a storage tank containing unblended alcohol or a predominantly alcohol-based motor fuel must be marked with the word "ALCOHOL" and with the appropriate product name of the fuel stored in the tank.
Subd. 6.Product information; petroleum distillates.
(7) "KEROSENE" "UNDYED" for kerosene for which the federal motor fuel excise tax has been paid;
(8) "KEROSENE" "DYED" for kerosene intended to be sold for use in off-road vehicles, heating equipment, and other off-road equipment; or
(9) "JET/TURBINE" for jet fuel or turbine fuel.
1992 c 575 s 25; 1999 c 203 s 7
(b) The director shall limit inspection to information and data relating to product quantity, quality, oxygen content, and octane. The director shall maintain the confidentiality of certain records as required by section 239.791.
1992 c 575 s 26
Subd. 2. Coordination with Departments of Revenue and Agriculture.
Subd. 3. Gasoline.
(a) Gasoline that is not blended with ethanol must not be contaminated with water or other impurities and must comply with ASTM specification D4814-07b. Gasoline that is not blended with ethanol must also comply with the volatility requirements in Code of Federal Regulations, title 40, part 80.
Subd. 4. Gasoline blended with ethanol; general.
(2) comply with ASTM specification D4814-07b, or the gasoline base stock from which a gasoline-ethanol blend was produced must comply with ASTM specification D4814-07b; and
Subd. 4a. Gasoline blended with ethanol; standard combustion engines.
Subd. 4b. Gasoline blended with ethanol; alternative fuel vehicles.
Subd. 5. Denatured ethanol.
Denatured ethanol that is to be blended with gasoline must be agriculturally derived and must comply with ASTM specification D4806-07a. This includes the requirement that ethanol may be denatured only as specified in Code of Federal Regulations, title 27, parts 20 and 21.
Subd. 6. Gasoline blended with nonethanol oxygenate.
(c) Gasoline that is blended with a nonethanol oxygenate must comply with ASTM specification D4814-07b. Nonethanol oxygenates must not be blended into gasoline after the gasoline has been sold, transferred, or otherwise removed from a refinery or terminal.
Subd. 7. Heating fuel oil.
Heating fuel oil must comply with ASTM specification D396-07.
Subd. 8. Diesel fuel oil.
Subd. 9. Kerosene.
Kerosene must comply with ASTM specification D3699-07.
Subd. 10. Aviation gasoline.
Subd. 11. Aviation turbine fuel, jet fuel.
Aviation turbine fuel and jet fuel must comply with ASTM specification D1655-07e1.
Subd. 12. Gas turbine fuel oil.
Subd. 13. E85.
Subd. 14. M85.
Subd. 15. Biodiesel blend definition.
Subd. 16. Biodiesel fuel definition.
"Biodiesel fuel" means a renewable, biodegradable, mono alkyl ester combustible liquid that is derived from agricultural plant oils or animal fats and that meets American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) specification D6751-07b for Biodiesel Fuel (B100) Blend Stock for Distillate Fuels.
Subd. 17. Grade 82 unleaded aviation gasoline.
1992 c 575 s 27; 1994 c 510 art 5 s 2; 1996 c 471 art 5 s 2; 1998 c 278 s 1; 1998 c 299 s 30; 1999 c 86 art 1 s 52,53; 2000 c 434 s 1; 1Sp2003 c 14 art 7 s 55-65; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 4 s 66; 2007 c 62 s 2; 2008 c 281 s 2; 2008 c 297 art 1 s 48-50
A liquefied petroleum gas account in the special revenue fund is established in the state treasury. Fees and penalties collected under this section must be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the liquefied petroleum gas account. Money in that account, including interest earned, is appropriated to the commissioner of education for programs to improve the energy efficiency of residential liquefied petroleum gas heating equipment in low-income households, and, when necessary, to provide weatherization services to the homes.
1992 c 597 s 12; 1993 c 375 art 9 s 14; 1994 c 483 s 1; 1994 c 632 art 4 s 60,61; 1998 c 273 s 12; 1998 c 299 s 30; 1998 c 350 s 5; 2003 c 130 s 12; 2005 c 151 art 2 s 3,17
A person responsible for the products listed in this subdivision shall transfer, ship, distribute, offer for distribution, sell, or offer to sell the products by volume. Volumetric measurement of the product must not be temperature compensated, or adjusted by any other factor. This subdivision applies to gasoline, number one and number two diesel fuel oils, number one and number two heating fuel oils, kerosene, denatured ethanol, and biodiesel. This subdivision does not apply to the measurement of petroleum products transferred, sold, or traded between refineries, between refineries and terminals, or between terminals.
1987 c 268 art 14 s 5; 1989 c 350 art 18 s 1; 1992 c 575 s 28; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 4 s 68
Subdivision 1.Minimum ethanol content required.
(a) Except as provided in subdivisions 10 to 14, a person responsible for the product shall ensure that all gasoline sold or offered for sale in Minnesota must contain at least 10.0 percent denatured ethanol by volume.
(b) For purposes of enforcing the minimum ethanol requirement of paragraph (a), a gasoline/ethanol blend will be construed to be in compliance if the ethanol content, exclusive of denaturants and permitted contaminants, comprises not less than 9.2 percent by volume and not more than 10.0 percent by volume of the blend as determined by an appropriate United States Environmental Protection Agency or American Society of Testing Materials standard method of analysis of alcohol/ether content in engine fuels.
Subd. 1a.Minimum ethanol content required.
(a) Except as provided in subdivisions 10 to 14, on August 30, 2013, and thereafter, a person responsible for the product shall ensure that all gasoline sold or offered for sale in Minnesota must contain at least 20 percent denatured ethanol by volume.
(b) For purposes of enforcing the minimum ethanol requirement of paragraph (a), a gasoline/ethanol blend will be construed to be in compliance if the ethanol content, exclusive of denaturants and permitted contaminants, comprises not less than 18.4 percent by volume and not more than 20 percent by volume of the blend as determined by an appropriate United States Environmental Protection Agency or American Society of Testing Materials standard method of analysis of alcohol content in motor fuels.
(d) This subdivision expires on December 31, 2010, if by that date:
(2) federal approval has not been granted for the use of E20 as gasoline. The United States Environmental Protection Agency's failure to act on an application shall not be deemed approval of the use of E20, or a waiver under section 211(f)(4) of the Clean Air Act, United States Code, title 42, section 7545, subsection (f), paragraph (4).
A refinery or terminal, shall provide, at the time gasoline is sold or transferred from the refinery or terminal, a bill of lading or shipping manifest to the person who receives the gasoline. For oxygenated gasoline, the bill of lading or shipping manifest must include the identity and the volume percentage or gallons of oxygenate included in the gasoline, and it must state: "This fuel contains an oxygenate. Do not blend this fuel with ethanol or with any other oxygenate." For nonoxygenated gasoline sold or transferred after September 30, 1997, the bill or manifest must state: "This fuel is not oxygenated. It must not be sold at retail in Minnesota." This subdivision does not apply to sales or transfers of gasoline between refineries, between terminals, or between a refinery and a terminal.
1992 c 575 s 29; 1993 c 250 s 1; 1993 c 369 s 73,74; 1995 c 220 s 116; 1996 c 354 s 8-11; 1999 c 231 s 174-177; 2000 c 434 s 2; 2003 c 107 s 30; 2004 c 189 s 3,4; 2005 c 10 art 1 s 39; 2005 c 52 s 1,2; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 4 s 69-72; 2008 c 350 art 1 s 79,80
Subd. 2. Promotion of renewable liquid fuels.
2005 c 52 s 3; 2007 c 45 art 1 s 58; 2008 c 297 art 1 s 52