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SC Code § 39-9-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-20. Definitions.

 When used in this chapter:  (1) "Weights or measures", or both, means all weights and measures of every kind, instruments, and devices for weighing and measuring and an appliance and accessories associated with the instruments and devices.  (2) "Weight" as used in connection with a commodity or service means net weight. It means net drained weight when a commodity is sold by drained weight.  (3) "Correct" as used in connection with weights and measures means conformance to all applicable requirements of this chapter.  (4) "Primary standards" means the physical standards of South Carolina which serve as the legal reference from which all other standards and weights and measures are derived.  (5) "Secondary standards" means the physical standards traceable to the primary standards through comparisons using acceptable laboratory procedures and used in the enforcement of weights and measures law and regulations.  (6) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture of South Carolina.  (7) "Person" means both plural and singular, as applicable, and includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, companies, societies, and associations.  (8) "Sale from bulk" means the sale of commodities when the quantity is determined at the time of sale.  (9)(a) Except as modified by application of the uniform packaging and labeling regulation, "package", standard or random, means a commodity:  (i) enclosed in a container or wrapped in any manner in advance of wholesale or retail sale; or  (ii) whose weight or measure has been determined in advance of wholesale or retail sale.  (b) An individual item or lot of a commodity on which there is marked a selling price based on an established price for each unit of weight or measure is considered a package.  (10) "Net weight" means the weight of a commodity excluding materials, substances, or items not considered to be part of the commodity. Materials, substances, or items not considered to be part of the commodity include, but are not limited to, containers, conveyances, bags, wrappers, packaging materials, labels, individual piece coverings, decorative accompaniments, and coupons, except, depending on the type of service rendered, packaging materials may be considered to be part of the service. The service of shipping includes the weight of packaging materials.  (11) "Random weight" package means a package that is one of a lot, shipment, or delivery of packages of the same commodity with no fixed pattern of weights.  (12) "Standard weight" package means a package that is one of a lot, shipment, or delivery of packages of the same commodity with identical net contents declarations.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-152; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment revised definitions and references to conform to federal law and added paragraphs (8)-(12).
SC Code § 39-9-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-30. Certain weighing devices shall be subject to standards and inspection.

 When a fee is paid for service rendered by a weighing device, the weighing device is subject to the standards and the inspection provided by this chapter, and the person owning or operating the device is subject to its penalties.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-152.1; 1953 (48) 322; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment made grammatical changes.
SC Code § 39-9-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-40. Systems of weights and measures which are recognized; definitions and tables published by National Institute of Standards and Technology shall govern.

 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 both of these systems must be used for all commercial purposes in the State. The definitions of basic units of weights and measures, the tables of weight and measure, and weights and measures equivalents published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology are recognized and govern weighing and measuring equipment and transactions in the State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-153; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment substituted "National Institute of Standards and Technology" for "National Bureau of Standards" and made grammatical changes.
SC Code § 39-9-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-50. State's primary standards; verification of secondary standards.

 Weights and measures traceable to the United States prototype standards supplied by the federal government, or approved as being satisfactory by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, are the state's primary standards of weights and measures and must be maintained in a calibration prescribed by the institute. All secondary standards may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Agriculture and must be verified upon their initial receipt and as often as considered necessary by the commissioner.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-154; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment substituted "National Institute of Standards and Technology" for "National Bureau of Standards"; substituted "may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Agriculture and must" for "used in the enforcement of this chapter shall" and made grammatical changes.
SC Code § 39-9-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-60. Specifications, tolerances and other technical requirements for commercial, law enforcement, data gathering, and other weighing and measuring devices.

 The specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for commercial, law enforcement, data gathering, and other weighing and measuring devices adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and published in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 44, "Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices", and its supplements and revisions, apply to commercial weighing and measuring devices in the State, except as modified or rejected by regulation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-155; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment substituted "National Institute of Standards and Technology" for "National Bureau of Standards" and made grammatical changes; inserted "law enforcement, data gathering, and other".
SC Code § 39-9-62 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-62. Requirements for packaging and labeling of commodities.

 The Uniform Packaging and Labeling Regulations adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and published in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 130, "Uniform Laws and Regulations", and its supplements and revisions, apply to packaging and labeling in the State, except as modified or rejected by regulation.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 501, Section 1, eff August 25, 1994.
SC Code § 39-9-64 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-64. Requirements for method of sale of commodities.

 The Uniform Regulation for the Method of Sale of Commodities adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and published in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 130, "Uniform Laws and Regulations", and its supplements and revisions, apply to the method of sale of commodities in the State, except as modified or rejected by regulation.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 501, Section 1, eff August 25, 1994.
SC Code § 39-9-65 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-65. Requirements for registration of servicepersons and service agencies for commercial weighing and measuring devices.

 The Uniform Regulation for the Voluntary Registration of Servicepersons and Service Agencies for Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and published in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 130, "Uniform Laws and Regulations", and its supplements and revisions, apply to the registration of servicepersons and service agencies in the State, except as modified or rejected by regulation.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 501, Section 1, eff August 25, 1994.
SC Code § 39-9-66 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-66. Requirements for type evaluation.

 The Uniform Regulations for National Type Evaluation as adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and published in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 130, "Uniform Laws and Regulations", and its supplements and revisions, apply to type evaluation in the State, except as modified or rejected by regulation.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 501, Section 1, eff August 25, 1994.
SC Code § 39-9-68 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-68. Functions of Department of Agriculture Consumer Services Division; fee for calibrations performed for private sector entities.

 The Department of Agriculture Consumer Services Division is charged with, but is not limited to, performing the following functions in connection with weights and measures on behalf of the citizens of the State:  (1) assuring that weights and measures in commercial service within the State are suitable for their intended use, properly installed, and accurate and are so maintained by their owner or user;  (2) preventing unfair or deceptive dealing by weight or measure in a commodity or service advertised, packaged, sold, or purchased within this State;  (3) making available to all users of physical standards or weighing and measuring equipment the precision calibration and related metrological certification capabilities of the weights and measures facilities of the division;  (4) promoting uniformity, to the extent practicable and desirable, between weights and measures requirements of this State and those of other states and federal agencies;  (5) encouraging desirable economic growth while protecting the consumer through the adoption by regulation of weights and measures requirements necessary to assure equity among buyers and sellers.  The Department of Agriculture shall charge a fee of forty-five dollars an hour based on a fee schedule for all calibrations performed for private sector entities by the Metrology Laboratory authorized by subsection (3). Revenues generated by these fees shall be used by the department to offset expenses incurred in operating the Metrology Laboratory.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 501, Section 1, eff August 25, 1994; 2008 Act No. 353, Section 2, Pt 7C, eff July 1, 2009.  Effect of Amendment  The 2008 amendment added the undesignated paragraph at the end relating to fees for calibrations performed for private sector entities.
SC Code § 39-9-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-80. Inspection and testing of moisture meters.

 Moisture meters or other measuring devices used to determine the moisture content of grain or soybeans offered or exposed for sale must be inspected and tested within six months before November first each year and at other times determined by the Department of Agriculture in the same manner provided by law for the testing of scales by the department. The department may promulgate regulations necessary to carry out this section.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-156.1; 1973 (58) 434; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment made grammatical changes.
SC Code § 39-9-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-90. Powers of Commissioner of Agriculture.

 When necessary for the enforcement of this chapter or regulations promulgated pursuant to it, the commissioner may:  (1) enter commercial premises during normal business hours. If the premises are not open to the public, he first shall present his credentials and obtain consent before making entry. If entry is denied, he may apply for a search warrant from a person authorized to issue it;  (2) issue stop-use, hold, and removal orders with respect to weights and measures commercially used and to packaged commodities or bulk commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale;  (3) seize for use as evidence without formal warrant an incorrect or unapproved weight, measure, package, or commodity found to be used, retained, offered, or exposed for sale or sold in violation of this chapter or regulations promulgated pursuant to it;  (4) stop a commercial vehicle and after presentation of his credentials inspect the contents and require the person in charge of that vehicle to produce documents in his possession concerning the contents and proceed with the vehicle to some specified place for inspection.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-157; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment made grammatical changes.
SC Code § 39-9-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-100. Powers and duties of county and municipal weights and measures officials.

 Weights and measures officials appointed for a county or municipality have the duties and powers enumerated in this chapter, except duties and powers reserved to the State by law or regulation. These powers and duties extend to their respective jurisdictions, except the jurisdiction of a county official does not extend to a municipality for which a weights and measures official has been appointed. No requirement set forth by local agencies may be less stringent than or in conflict with state requirements.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-158; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment rewrote this section.
SC Code § 39-9-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-110. Selling less or taking more than quantity represented prohibited.

 No person may:  (1) sell, offer, or expose for sale less than the quantity represented;  (2) take more than the represented quantity when, as buyer, he furnishes the weight or measure by means of which the quantity is determined; or  (3) represent the quantity in a manner calculated or tending to mislead or deceive another person.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-159; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment added the paragraph designators (1) and (2), and added paragraph (3).
SC Code § 39-9-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-120. Misrepresentation of price prohibited; display of price including fraction of a cent.

 No person may misrepresent the price of a commodity or service sold, offered, exposed, or advertised for sale by weight, measure, or count nor represent the price in any manner calculated or tending to mislead or deceive a person. Whenever an advertised, posted, or labeled price for each unit of weight, measure, or count includes a fraction of a cent, all elements of a fraction must be displayed prominently, and the numerals expressing the fraction must be immediately adjacent to, of the same general design and style as, and at least one-half the height and width of the numerals representing the whole cent.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-160; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment made grammatical changes.
SC Code § 39-9-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-130. Standard cord-equivalent weights for pulpwood.

 (A) Pulpwood sold in South Carolina by weight must be based on the following weights as standard cord equivalents:  (1) hardwood:  (a) soft hardwoods: 5,450 pounds;  (b) hard hardwoods: 6,200 pounds;  (c) mixed hardwoods: 5,800 pounds;  (2) pine: all counties: 5,350 pounds.  (B) For purposes of this section hard hardwoods include oaks, hickorys, pecans, persimmon, ironwood, locusts, holly, dogwood, chinaberrys, and cherry. Others are classified as soft hardwoods.  (C) A person violating this section, upon conviction, must be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-160.1; 1970 (56) 1964; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment added designators and made grammatical changes.
SC Code § 39-9-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-140. Measures by which commodities shall be sold.

 (A) Except as otherwise provided by the Commissioner of Agriculture or by firmly established trade custom and practice, commodities:  (1) in liquid form must be sold by liquid measure or by weight;  (2) not in liquid form must be sold only by weight, measure, or count.  (B) The method of sale must provide accurate and adequate quantity information that permits the buyer to make price and quantity comparisons.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-161; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment revised this section.
SC Code § 39-9-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-150. Delivery ticket shall accompany certain bulk sales and bulk deliveries; information to be contained on ticket.

 Bulk sales in which the buyer and seller both are not present to witness the measurement, bulk deliveries of heating fuel, other bulk sales specified by regulation of the Department of Agriculture must be accompanied by a delivery ticket containing the following information:  (1) name and address of the vendor and purchaser;  (2) date delivered;  (3) quantity delivered and the quantity upon which the price is based, if this differs from the delivered quantity including, but not limited to, temperature compensated sales;  (4) unit price unless otherwise agreed upon by the buyer and seller;  (5) identity in the most descriptive terms commercially practicable including quality representation made in connection with the sale;  (6) count of individually wrapped packages, if more than one, for commodities bought from bulk but delivered in packages.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-162; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment revised this section.
SC Code § 39-9-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-160. Information which shall appear on packages.

 Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or by regulations promulgated pursuant to it, a random or standard package kept for the purpose of sale or offered or exposed for sale must bear on the outside of the package a definite, plain, and conspicuous declaration of:  (1) identity of the commodity in the package, unless it easily may be identified through the wrapper or container;  (2) quantity of contents in terms of weight, measure, or count;  (3) name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor for a package kept, offered, or exposed for sale in a place other than on the premises where packed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-163; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment substituted "a random or standard package" for "any package", changed designators (a)-(c) to (1)-(3), and made grammatical changes.
SC Code § 39-9-170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-170. Situation in which package shall show price per single unit of weight.

 In addition to the declarations required by Section 39-9-160, a package being one of a lot containing random weights of the same commodity, when it is offered or exposed for sale at retail, must bear on the outside of the package a plain and conspicuous declaration of the price for each kilogram or pound and the total selling price of the package.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-164; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment rewrote this section.
SC Code § 39-9-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-180. Declaration of quantity required in advertisement stating retail price.

 Whenever a packaged commodity is advertised with the retail price stated, there must be associated closely and conspicuously with the retail price a declaration of quantity as required by law or regulation to appear on the package. Where a dual declaration is required, only the declaration that sets forth the quantity in terms of the smaller unit of weight or measure must appear in the advertisement.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-165; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment made grammatical changes.
SC Code § 39-9-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-200. Unlawful acts.

 No person may:  (1) use or have in possession for use in commerce an incorrect weight or measure;  (2) sell or offer for sale for use in commerce an incorrect weight or measure;  (3) remove a tag, seal, or mark from a weight or measure without specific written authorization from the proper authority;  (4) hinder or obstruct a weights and measures official in the performance of his duties;  (5) violate this chapter or regulations promulgated pursuant to it.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-167; 1971 (57) 241; 1994 Act No. 501, Section 2, eff August 25, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1994 amendment deleted the opening paragraph containing penalty provisions, redesignated (a), (b) and (c) as (1), (3), and (4), added (2) and (5), and made grammatical changes.
SC Code § 39-9-203 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Weights And Measures|Section 39-9-203. Civil penalties; civil action to recovery penalty.

 A person who by himself, by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of another person commits one or more of the acts enumerated in Section 39-9-200 may be subject to a civil penalty. A civil action may be brought by the Commissioner of Agriculture in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover a civil penalty of not less than:  (1) one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars for a first offense;  (2) two hundred fifty nor more than five hundred dollars for a second offense within two years from the date of the first offense;  (3) one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars for a third offense within two years from the date of the first offense.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 501, Section 1, eff August 25, 1994.