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AK Stat § 45.65.250 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 65. Handicrafts and Works of Art|Article 2. Artists and Works of Art.|Sec. 45.65.250. Definitions.

In AS 45.65.200 - 45.65.250, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) “art dealer” means a person engaged in the business of selling works of art, other than a person exclusively engaged in the business of selling goods at public auction; (2) “artist” means the creator of a work of art or, if deceased, the heirs or personal representatives of the creator; (3) “consignment” means that no title to or estate in the goods or right to possession superior to that of the consignor vests in the consignee, notwithstanding the consignee's power or authority to transfer and convey, to third person, all of the right, title, and interest of the consignor, in and to the goods; (4) “creditor” has the meaning given in AS 45.01.211; (5) “work of art” means an original or multiple original art work including: (A) visual art such as a painting, sculpture, drawing, mosaic, or photograph; (B) calligraphy; (C) graphic art such as an etching, lithograph, offset print, or silk screen; (D) craft work in clay, textile, fiber, wood, metal, plastic, or glass materials; (E) mixed media such as a collage or any combination of art media in this paragraph; (F) art employing traditional native materials such as ivory, bone, grass, baleen, animal skins, wood, and furs.
AK Stat § 45.75.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 1. Standard Weights and Measures.|Sec. 45.75.010. Systems of weights and measures.

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 the state. The definitions of basic units of weight and measure, the tables of weight and measure, and weight and measure equivalents, as published by the National Bureau of Standards or its successor organization, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, govern weighing and measuring equipment and transactions in the state.
AK Stat § 45.75.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 1. Standard Weights and Measures.|Sec. 45.75.020. State standards of weight and measure.

The weights and measures obtained by the state in conformity with them and certified by the National Bureau of Standards or its successor organization, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, are the state standards of weight and measure. The state standards shall be kept in a safe and suitable place in the office or laboratory of the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. They may not be removed from the office or laboratory except for repairs or for certification. The state standards shall be used only in verifying the office standards and for scientific purposes.
AK Stat § 45.75.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.030. State director and inspectors of weights and measures.

The commissioner of transportation and public facilities is ex officio state director of weights and measures. The director may appoint state inspectors.
AK Stat § 45.75.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.040. General powers and duties of director.

The director is the custodian of the state standards of weight and measure and of the other standards and equipment provided for by this chapter. The director shall keep accurate records of the standards and equipment. The director shall enforce this chapter. The director shall supervise the weights and measures offered for sale, sold, or in use in the state.
AK Stat § 45.75.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.050. Adoption of regulations.

(a) The director shall adopt regulations for the enforcement of this chapter under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act). These have the effect of law. (b) The regulations may include (1) standards of net weight, measure, or count, and reasonable standards of fill, for a commodity in package form; (2) rules governing the technical and reporting procedures to be followed, and the report and record forms and marks of approval and rejection to be used by inspectors of weights and measures in the discharge of their official duties; (3) exemptions from the sealing or marking requirements of AS 45.75.120 for weights and measures of a character or size that sealing or marking would be inappropriate, impracticable, or damaging to the apparatus in question; (4) for classes of weights and measures of a character that retesting is unnecessary to continued accuracy, exemptions from the requirements of AS 45.75.070 and 45.75.080 for testing, and schedules fixing the frequency of required retests for classes of devices exempted; and (5) in the implementation of AS 19.10.060(b), provisions governing the size, weight, and load limitations established under AS 19.10.060; the issuance of permits for overweight and oversize vehicles; and the operation of weigh stations. (c) The regulations must include specifications, tolerance, and regulations for weights and measures of the character of those specified in AS 45.75.080, designed to eliminate from use, without prejudice to apparatus that conforms as closely as practicable to the official standards, those that (1) are not accurate; (2) are of such construction that they are not reasonably permanent in their adjustment or will not repeat their indications correctly; or (3) facilitate the perpetration of fraud. (d) The specifications, tolerances, and regulations for commercial weighing and measuring devices, together with amendments to them, as recommended by the National Bureau of Standards or its successor organization, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and published in the National Bureau of Standards or its successor organization, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Handbook 44 and supplements to it, or in any publication revising or superseding Handbook 44, are the specifications, tolerances, and regulations for commercial weighing and measuring devices of the state, except as specifically modified, amended, or rejected by a regulation adopted by the director. (e) For the purposes of this chapter, apparatus is correct when it conforms to the requirements adopted in accordance with this section; other apparatus is considered incorrect. (f) The director shall adopt regulations establishing reasonable fees for testing, inspection, and other services provided under this chapter, and procedures for collecting the fees.
AK Stat § 45.75.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.060. Office and working standards and equipment.

The state shall supply the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities with a duplicate set of state standards of weight and measure, referred to in this chapter as office standards. The state shall supply field standards and the equipment that is necessary to carry out this chapter. The office standards and field standards shall be verified upon their initial receipt and at least once each year afterward. The office standards shall be verified by direct comparison with the state standards. The field standards shall be verified by comparison with the office standards.
AK Stat § 45.75.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.070. Testing and inspection of local standards and weights and measures at state-supported institutions.

(a) At least once every five years, the director shall test the standards of weight and measure obtained by a city that has appointed a sealer of weights and measures, and shall approve them if they are correct. The director shall inspect the standards at least once every two years. (b) The director shall from time to time test all weights and measures used in checking the receipt or disbursement of supplies in every institution maintained by money appropriated by the legislature, and shall report the findings, in writing, to the supervisory board and to the executive officer of the institution concerned.
AK Stat § 45.75.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.080. General testing.

(a) The director may inspect and test, to ascertain if they are correct, all weights and measures kept, offered, or exposed for sale. The director shall, at least annually and more often as considered necessary, inspect and test, to ascertain if they are correct, all weights and measures commercially used in (1) determining the weight, measurement, or count of commodities or things sold, or offered or exposed for sale, on the basis of weight or of measure; (2) computing the basic charge or payment for services rendered on the basis of weight or of measure or count; or (3) determining weight or measurement when a charge is made for this determination. (b) However, in the case of single-service devices, that is, devices designed to be used commercially only once and to be then discarded, and in the case of devices uniformly mass-produced, as by means of a mold or die, and not susceptible of individual adjustment, the inspection and testing of each individual device is not required and the inspecting and testing requirements of this section are satisfied when inspections and tests are made on representative samples of the devices. The lots from which representative samples are inspected and tested are held correct or incorrect upon the basis of the results of the inspections and tests on the samples.
AK Stat § 45.75.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.090. Investigations.

The director shall investigate complaints of violations of this chapter, and shall initiate and conduct the investigations that the director considers appropriate and advisable to develop information on prevailing procedures in commercial quantity determination and on possible violations of this chapter and to promote the general objective of accuracy in the determination and representation of quantity in commercial transactions.
AK Stat § 45.75.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.100. Inspection of packages.

(a) The director shall, from time to time, weigh or measure and inspect packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale to determine whether they contain the amounts represented and whether they are kept, offered, or exposed for sale in accordance with law. When packages or amounts of commodities do not contain the amounts represented, or are kept, offered, or exposed for sale in violation of law, the director may order them off sale and may mark or tag them to show they are illegal. The director may use recognized sampling procedures. Compliance of a given lot of packages shall be determined on the basis of the result obtained on a sample selected from and representative of the lot. (b) A person may not (1) sell, or keep, offer, or expose for sale in intrastate commerce a package or amount of commodity that has been ordered off sale or marked or tagged as provided in this section until the package or amount of commodity has been brought into full compliance with all legal requirements; or (2) dispose of a package or amount of commodity that is ordered off sale or marked or tagged as provided in this section and that does not meet legal requirements, except with the specific approval of the director.
AK Stat § 45.75.110 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.110. Stop-use, stop-removal, and removal orders.

(a) The director may issue stop-use orders, stop-removal orders, and removal orders for weights and measures used or capable of being used commercially. The director may issue stop-removal orders and removal orders for packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale whenever the director considers it necessary or expedient in enforcing this chapter. (b) A person may not use, remove from the premises specified, or fail to remove from the premises specified a weight, measure, or package or amount of commodity contrary to a stop-use order, stop-removal order, or removal order issued under this section.
AK Stat § 45.75.120 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.120. Disposition of correct and incorrect apparatus.

(a) The director shall approve for use and seal or mark with appropriate devices the weights and measures that the director finds upon inspection and test to be correct as provided in AS 45.75.050, and shall reject and mark or tag as “rejected” the weights and measures that the director finds, upon inspection or test, to be incorrect as provided in AS 45.75.050 but which in the director's best judgment are susceptible of satisfactory repair. This sealing or marking is not required for weights and measures exempted by regulation of the director. (b) The director shall condemn, and may seize and destroy weights and measures found to be incorrect that, in the director's best judgment, are not susceptible of satisfactory repair. Weights and measures that are rejected may be confiscated and destroyed by the director if not corrected as required by AS 45.75.180 or if used or disposed of contrary to the requirements of AS 45.75.180.
AK Stat § 45.75.130 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.130. Police powers and right of entry and stoppage.

In the enforcement of this chapter and any other law dealing with weights and measures the director has special police powers. The director may arrest, without formal warrant, any person violating the law, and seize for use as evidence, without formal warrant, incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts or packages of commodity, used, retained, offered or exposed for sale, or sold in violation of law. In performing the director's duties, the director may enter, without formal warrant, any structure or premises, and stop any person and require the person to proceed to a specified place.
AK Stat § 45.75.133 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.133. Bail forfeiture.

(a) The supreme court shall specify by rule or order those violations that are appropriate for disposition without court appearance, and shall establish a schedule of bail amounts. The maximum bail forfeiture amount for an offense may not exceed the maximum fine specified by law for that offense. If the person who has been cited can dispose of the violation without court appearance, the issuing peace officer or employee shall write on the citation the amount of bail forfeiture applicable to the violation. (b) If a person cited for a violation for which a bail forfeiture amount has been established under (a) of this section does not contest the citation, the person may, within 30 days after the date of the citation, mail or personally deliver to the clerk of the court in which the citation is filed by the employee (1) the amount of bail indicated on the citation for that offense; and (2) a copy of the citation indicating that the right to an appearance is waived, a plea of no contest is entered, and the bail is forfeited. (c) When the cited person has forfeited bail under (b) of this section, the court shall enter a judgment of conviction. Forfeiture of bail is a complete satisfaction for the violation. The clerk of the court accepting the bail forfeiture shall provide the offender with a receipt stating that fact if requested. (d) A person cited under this section is guilty of failure to obey a citation under AS 12.25.230(b) if the person fails to pay the bail amount established under (a) of this section or fails to appear in court as required. (e) Notwithstanding other provisions of law, if a person cited for a violation for which a bail forfeiture amount has been established under (a) of this section appears in court and is found guilty, the court may not impose a penalty that exceeds the bail forfeiture amount for that offense established under (a) of this section.
AK Stat § 45.75.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.140. Powers and duties of deputy director and inspector.

The powers and duties of the director specified in AS 45.75.070 - 45.75.130, 45.75.170, and 45.75.380 shall also be exercised by the deputy director and inspectors, when acting under the instructions and at the direction of the director.
AK Stat § 45.75.150 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.150. Appointment of city sealers and deputy sealers of weights and measures.

(a) A city may appoint a sealer of weights and measures, and the deputy sealers of weights and measures it needs. If the city appoints a sealer, it shall obtain at its expense the standards of weights and measures and the additional equipment, for use in the enforcement of this chapter in the city, that the director prescribes. (b) When the standards of weight and measure provided by a city are examined and approved by the director, they are the official standards for the city. At least every five years, the sealer shall make or arrange to have made comparisons between the field standards and appropriate standards of a higher order belonging to the city or to the state, in order to maintain the field standards in accurate condition.
AK Stat § 45.75.160 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.160. City sealers and deputy sealers.

The sealer of a city, and a deputy sealer when acting under the instructions and direction of the sealer, have the same powers and shall perform the same duties within the city as those granted to and imposed upon the director by AS 45.75.080 - 45.75.130 and 45.75.380.
AK Stat § 45.75.170 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.170. Concurrent jurisdiction.

In each city having a sealer of weights and measures, the director has concurrent authority to enforce this chapter.
AK Stat § 45.75.180 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 2. State and Local Administration of Weight and Measure Regulation.|Sec. 45.75.180. Duty of owners of incorrect apparatus.

Weights and measures rejected by the director or a sealer remain subject to the control of the rejecting authority until suitable repair or disposition of them is made as required by this section. The owner of a rejected weight and measure shall correct it within 30 days or a longer period authorized by the rejecting authority; or, may dispose of it in the manner authorized by the rejecting authority. Rejected weights and measures may not again be used commercially until officially re-examined and found to be correct or until specific written permission for their use is issued by the rejecting authority.
AK Stat § 45.75.190 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 3. Standards and Regulation for Sale of Commodities.|Sec. 45.75.190. Method of sale of commodities.

(a) Commodities in liquid form may be sold only by liquid measure or by weight. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, commodities not in liquid form may be sold only by weight, by measure of length or area, or by count. However, liquid commodities may be sold by weight and commodities not in liquid form may be sold by count only if the method gives accurate information as to the quantity of commodity sold. (b) The provisions of this section do not apply to (1) commodities when sold for immediate consumption on the premises where sold; (2) vegetables when sold by the head or bunch; (3) commodities in containers standardized by a law of this state or by federal law; (4) [Repealed, § 2 ch 24 SLA 1982.] (5) commodities in package form when there exists a general consumer usage to express the quantity in some other manner; (6) concrete aggregates, concrete mixtures, and loose solid materials such as earth, soil, gravel, and crushed stone, when sold by cubic measure; or (7) unprocessed vegetable and animal fertilizer sold by cubic measure. (c) The director may adopt reasonable regulations necessary to assure that amounts of commodity sold are determined in accordance with good commercial practice and are so determined and represented as to be accurate and informative.
AK Stat § 45.75.200 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 45. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75. Weights and Measures Act|Article 3. Standards and Regulation for Sale of Commodities.|Sec. 45.75.200. Declarations of quantity and origin on packages.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a commodity in package form introduced or delivered for introduction into or received in intrastate commerce, kept for the purpose of sale, or offered or exposed for sale in intrastate commerce shall bear on the outside of the package a definite, plain, and conspicuous declaration of (1) the net quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure, or count; (2) in the case of a package kept, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold in a place other than on the premises where packed, the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor; and (3) the identity of the commodity in the package unless it can easily be identified through the wrapper. (b) In the declaration required under (a)(1) of this section the qualifying term “when packed” or other words of similar import, or a term qualifying a unit of weight, measure, or count such as for example “jumbo,” “giant,” “full,” and the like that tends to exaggerate the amount of commodity in a package, may not be used. (c) Under (a)(1) of this section the director shall, by regulation, establish (1) reasonable variations or tolerances to be allowed, which may include variations below the declared weight or measure caused by ordinary and customary exposure, only after the commodity is introduced into intrastate commerce, to conditions that normally occur in good distribution practice and that unavoidably result in decreased weight or measure; (2) exemption as to small packages; and (3) exemptions as to commodities put up in variable weights or sizes for sale to the consumer intact and either customarily not sold as individual units or customarily weighed or measured at the time of sale to the consumer. (d) The marking provisions of this section do not apply to unwrapped loaves of bread.