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NH Rev Stat § 438:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:7 - General Powers and Duties of Commissioner.

    438:7 General Powers and Duties of Commissioner. –||I. The commissioner shall have the custody of the state standards of weight and measure and of the other standards and equipment provided for by this chapter, and shall keep accurate records of such standards and equipment.||II. The commissioner shall be responsible for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and the administrative rules adopted under this chapter.||III. The commissioner may issue an order to any person in violation of this chapter, any term or condition of a license, permit or registration issued under this chapter, or any rule adopted under this chapter. This order may require such remedial or corrective measures as may be necessary. The order shall require elimination of the violation and shall set the time frame within which the remedial or corrective measures shall be completed. Any person to whom an order is directed may appeal to the commissioner or to the superior court.||IV. The commissioner may hold hearings concerning the issuance of licenses, permits or registrations and the enforcement of these and any other provisions of this chapter.||V. The commissioner may impose administrative fines pursuant to RSA 438:40.||VI. The commissioner shall license annually all devices used commercially to provide services on the basis of weight, measure, or count or to establish size, quantity, extent, area or measurement of commodities or articles sold or offered or exposed for sale.||VII. The commissioner shall biennially make to the governor a report on all of the activities under this chapter within its biennial report pursuant to RSA 20:7.||VIII. The commissioner shall designate the registration and expiration dates for all licenses, permits, and registrations issued under this chapter.||IX. The commissioner shall make an annual report on October 1 of each year to the house and senate committees on executive departments and administration and to the house and senate clerks including the number of consumer complaints, the number of inspections, and the number of audits during the prior fiscal year for meters, scales, and other devices.|||Source. 1985, 72:1. 1989, 324:5. 1994, 100:3, 4, eff. July 10, 1994. 2011, 202:3, eff. July 1, 2011. 2015, 259:23, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:8-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:8-a - Division Director; Duties.

    438:8-a Division Director;  Duties. –||The director shall operate under the duties prescribed to him or her by the commissioner, including but not limited to:||I. Subject to direction from the commissioner, the director of weights and measures shall direct and supervise the functions of the division of weights and measures including the work of the inspectors, the metrologist, and the clerical staff.||II. The director, in accordance with the policies of the department of administrative services, shall keep records on the weights and measures inspectors which shall include, by employee, the hours worked, approval of any overtime hours worked and the reason therefor, and accurate records of leave time accrued and used.||III. The director shall, with the approval of the commissioner, establish a written procedure for prosecuting violations of this chapter and shall make judicious use of the civil penalty system in lieu of criminal prosecution when in his or her judgment it will be equally or more effective in enforcing the provisions of this chapter.||IV. The director shall, with approval of the commissioner, establish a written code of conduct for the inspectors which shall be available upon request and shall establish written regulations and standard operating procedures for the inspectors.||V. The director shall provide quarterly reports of investigations of complaints to the advisory board. Such reports shall include the date and nature of the complaint, the investigator of the complaint, and the resolution of the complaint.|||Source. 2012, 238:1, eff. June 18, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:8-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:8-b - Weights and Measures Advisory Board.

    438:8-b Weights and Measures Advisory Board. –||I. There shall be a weights and measures advisory board consisting of 11 members. With the exception of the member from the general court, the members shall be appointed by commissioner of the department of agriculture, markets, and food, and shall include the following:||(a) Two members nominated by the New Hampshire Grocers Association.||(b) One member nominated by the Oil Heat Council of New Hampshire.||(c) One member who is a scrap dealer.||(d) Two members who are farmers, one of whom is engaged in retail of his or her products.||(e) One legislator from the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.||(f) One member nominated by the Propane Gas Association of New England.||(g) One member nominated by the Independent Oil Marketers Association of New England.||(h) One member of the general public who is not involved commercially with weights and measures.||(i) One member who is a weights and measures service technician registered under RSA 438:14-a.||II. The director of weights and measures shall serve as an ex-officio, nonvoting member of the board.||III. Following an initial appointment for staggered terms, each board member shall serve for a term of 4 years. Board members shall not serve more than 2 consecutive terms. The board shall annually elect from among its members a chairman and a vice-chairman.||IV. Board members shall serve without compensation, except that they shall receive reimbursement for mileage when in the performance of their duties. This reimbursement shall be a charge against the appropriation for the department for weights and measures.||V. The board shall meet at least 2 times per year at a time and place to be fixed by the chairman. Additional meetings shall occur either upon his or her own motion or at the request of 3 or more board members.||VI. The weights and measures advisory board shall regularly advise the director of the division of weights and measures and the commissioner on all matters related to the enforcement of this chapter.|||Source. 2012, 238:1, eff. June 18, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:9 - Testing of Standards; Testing at State Supported Institutions.

    438:9 Testing of Standards;  Testing at State Supported Institutions. –||The commissioner, or his inspectors at his direction, at least once each year, shall test the standards of weight and measure procured by any city for which the appointment of a sealer of weights and measures is provided by this chapter, and shall approve the same when found to be correct, and he shall inspect such standards at least once each year. He shall from time to time test all weights and measures used in checking the receipt or disbursement of supplies in every institution for the maintenance of which moneys are appropriated by the legislature, reporting his findings, in writing, to the supervisory board and to the executive office of the institution concerned.|||Source. 1985, 72:1. 1991, 10:3, eff. June 18, 1991.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:10 - General Testing.

    438:10 General Testing. –||When not otherwise provided by law, the commissioner, or his inspectors at his direction, shall have the power to inspect and test to ascertain if they are correct all weights and measures kept, offered, or exposed for sale. It shall be the duty of the commissioner, as he may deem necessary, to inspect and test to ascertain if they are correct 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 of count, or (2) in computing the basic charge or payment for services rendered on the basis of weight, measure, or of count; provided, however, that with respect to single-service devices (that is, devices designed to be used commercially only once and to be then discarded) and with respect to devices uniformly mass-produced, as by means of a mold or die and not susceptible of individual adjustment, tests may be made on representative samples of such devices. The lots of such samples which are representative shall be held to be correct or incorrect upon the basis of the results of the inspections and tests on such samples.|||Source. 1985, 72:1. 1989, 324:8, eff. Aug. 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:10-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:10-a - Fees for Licensing Commercial Devices.

    438:10-a Fees for Licensing Commercial Devices. –||The following annual device license fees shall be charged for the following categories:||I. Scales 100 pounds or less, $18 each;||II. Scales over 100 pounds to 2,000 pounds, $27 each;||III. Scales over 2,000 pounds to 5,000 pounds, $54 each;||IV. Non-vehicle scales over 5,000 pounds, $90 each;||V. Vehicle scales, $180 each;||VI. Lift truck/forklifts, on board weighing systems/scales, $90 each;||VII. On board weighing systems/scales, refuse or recyclable materials collection trucks, $90 each;||VIII. Analytical balances, $36 each;||IX. Retail motor fuel dispensers, except liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas dispensers, $18 per meter;||X. Liquefied petroleum gas retail motor fuel dispensers, $54 per meter;||XI. Natural gas retail motor fuel dispensers, $54 per meter;||XII. Liquid vehicle tank meters, except liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas meters, $54 per meter;||XIII. Liquid bulk storage meters, $90 per meter;||XIV. Liquefied gas meters, $90 per meter;||XV. Taxi meters, $27 per meter; and||XVI. Linear and cordage measures, $18 per meter.|||Source. 2011, 202:1, eff. July 1, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:11 - Investigations.

    438:11 Investigations. –||The commissioner, or his inspectors at his direction, shall investigate complaints made to him concerning violations of the provisions of this chapter and shall, upon his own initiative, conduct such investigations as he deems appropriate and advisable to develop information on prevailing procedures in commercial quantity determination and on possible violations of the provisions of this chapter and to promote the general objective of accuracy in the determination and representation of quantity in commercial transactions.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:12 - Inspection of Packages.

    438:12 Inspection of Packages. –||The commissioner, or his inspectors at his direction, shall from time to time weigh or measure and inspect packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale, sold, or in the process of delivery, to determine whether the same contain the amounts represented and whether they are kept, offered or exposed for sale or sold in accordance with law. When such packages or amounts of commodities are found not to contain the amounts represented, or are found to be kept, offered, or exposed for sale in violation of law, the commissioner may order them off sale and may so mark or tag them as to show them to be illegal. In carrying out the provisions of this section, the commissioner may employ recognized sampling procedures under which the compliance of a given lot of packages will be determined on the basis of the result obtained on a sample selected from and representative of such lot. No person shall (1) sell, or keep, offer, or expose for sale, in intrastate commerce, any package or amount of commodity that has been ordered off sale or marked or tagged as provided in this section unless and until such package or amount of commodity has been brought into full compliance with all legal requirements, or (2) dispose of any package or amount of commodity that has been ordered off sale or marked or tagged as provided in this section and that has not been brought into compliance with legal requirements, in any manner, except with the specific approval of the commissioner.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:13 - Stop-Use, Stop-Removal Orders.

    438:13 Stop-Use, Stop-Removal Orders. –||The commissioner, or his inspectors at his direction, shall have the power to issue stop-use orders, stop-removal orders, and removal orders with respect to weights and measures being, or susceptible of being, commercially used, and to issue stop-removal orders and removal orders with respect to packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale, sold, or in process of delivery, whenever in the course of his enforcement of the provisions of this chapter he deems it necessary or expedient to issue such orders. No person shall use, remove from the premises specified, 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 under the authority of this section.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:14 - Disposition of Correct and Incorrect Apparatus.

    438:14 Disposition of Correct and Incorrect Apparatus. –||The commissioner, or his inspectors at his direction, shall approve for use and seal or mark with appropriate devices such weights and measures as he finds upon inspection and test to be "correct" as defined in RSA 438:8, and shall reject and mark or tag as "rejected" such weights and measures as he finds, upon inspection or test, to be "incorrect" as defined in RSA 438:8, but which in his best judgment are susceptible of satisfactory repair; provided, however, that such sealing or marking shall not be required with respect to such weights and measures as may be exempted therefrom by a rule of the commissioner adopted under the authority of RSA 438:8. The commissioner shall condemn and may seize and destroy weights and measures found to be incorrect if not corrected or disposed of as required by RSA 438:19.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:14-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:14-a - Registered Service Technician.

    438:14-a Registered Service Technician. –||A registered service technician who installs, services, repairs, reconditions, tests, or calibrates a commercial weighing or measuring device shall seal said device in a manner approved by the commissioner. This seal shall authorize the device owner to use a licensed device unless rejected pursuant to RSA 438:14.|||Source. 2010, 358:2, eff. Sept. 18, 2010. 2011, 202:4, eff. July 1, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:15 - Police Powers, Right of Entry and Stoppage.

    438:15 Police Powers, Right of Entry and Stoppage. –||With respect to the enforcement of this chapter and any other law dealing with weights and measures that he or she is or may be empowered to enforce, the commissioner, or the commissioner's inspectors at his or her direction, is hereby vested with special police powers, and is authorized to arrest, without formal warrant, any violator of said laws, and to seize for use as evidence, without formal warrant, 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.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985. 2012, 238:5, eff. June 18, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:15-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:15-a - Training of Inspectors.

    438:15-a Training of Inspectors. –||Any inspector of the department of agriculture, markets, and food appointed to enforce the laws and rules pertaining to weights and measures under RSA 438 shall successfully complete the preparatory training program for part-time police officers established by the police standards and training council pursuant to RSA 106-L no later than 2 years from the date of hire. Upon successful completion of the training program such inspector shall be certified as a part-time police officer. Inspectors serving under permanent appointment on April 27, 1990 who have the power to enforce the laws and rules pertaining to weights and measures under RSA 438 shall also successfully complete the preparatory training program for part-time police officers within one year of April 27, 1990 and shall, upon completion, be certified as part-time police officers.|||Source. 1989, 324:9. 1990, 217:2. 1995, 130:4, eff. July 23, 1995. 2017, 206:17, eff. Sept. 8, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:16 - City Sealers of Weights and Measures; Appointment.

    438:16 City Sealers of Weights and Measures;  Appointment. –||There may be a sealer of weights and measures in each city of not less than 35,000 population, according to the latest United States census. The sealer shall be appointed by the mayor, with the consent of the city council; provided, however, that no person shall be so appointed until his appointment has been approved in writing by the commissioner of agriculture, markets, and food and shall hold office during good behavior. The city sealer shall have the same power and duties in the city as state inspectors have throughout the state.|||Source. 1985, 72:1; 189:1. 1987, 12:1. 1989, 324:10. 1995, 130:5, eff. July 23, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:17 - City Standards and Equipment.

    438:17 City Standards and Equipment. –||The council of each city for which a sealer has been appointed as provided for by RSA 438:16 shall: (1) procure at the expense of the city such standards of weight and measure and such additional equipment, to be used for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter in said city, as may be prescribed by the commissioner, (2) provide a suitable office for the sealer, and (3) provide for the necessary clerical services, supplies, and transportation, and for defraying contingent expenses incident to the official activities of the sealer in carrying out the provisions of this chapter. When the standards of weight and measure required by this section to be provided by a city have been examined and approved by the commissioner, they shall be the official standards for such city. It shall be the duty of the sealer to make, or to arrange to have made, at least as frequently as once a year, comparisons between his field standards and appropriate standards of a higher order belonging to his city or to the state, in order to maintain such field standards in accurate condition. Whenever the city council of a city shall neglect for 6 months to provide such standards, the city clerk of said city, on notification and request by the commissioner, shall provide the same and cause them to be tried, sealed, and deposited at the expense of the city.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:18 - Concurrent Jurisdiction.

    438:18 Concurrent Jurisdiction. –||The commissioner shall have concurrent authority to enforce the provisions of this chapter, in cities for which sealers of weights and measures have been appointed as provided in this chapter. City sealers shall investigate and prosecute within the jurisdiction of the city, unless the investigation or prosecution in the jurisdiction over a particular case or class of cases is preempted by the state bureau of weights and measures, county attorney or attorney general. City sealers, upon request of the bureau of weights and measures, county attorney, or attorney general, may assist and conduct investigations throughout the state.|||Source. 1985, 72:1. 1994, 100:6, eff. July 10, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 438:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 438 - Standards for Weights and Measures|Section 438:19 - Duty of Owners of Incorrect Apparatus.

    438:19 Duty of Owners of Incorrect Apparatus. –||Weights and measures that have been rejected under the authority of the commissioner shall remain subject to the control of the rejecting authority until such time as suitable repair or disposition has been made as required by this section. The owners of such rejected weights and measures shall cause them to be made correct within 30 days or such longer period as may be authorized by the rejecting authority; or, in lieu of correction, the owners may dispose of the rejected weights and measures, but only in such manner as is specifically authorized by the rejecting authority. Weights and measures that have been rejected shall not again be used commercially until they have been officially re-examined and found to be correct, or until specific written permission for such use is issued by the rejecting authority.|||Source. 1985, 72:1. 1989, 324:11, eff. Aug. 1, 1989.|