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9 V.S.A. § 2638
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2638. Stop-use, stop-removal, and removal orders

§ 2638. Stop-use, stop-removal, and removal orders|The Secretary may issue stop-use orders, stop-removal orders, and removal orders with respect to weights and measures being, or susceptible of being, commercially used, and 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 or her enforcement of this chapter he or she deems it necessary or expedient to issue such orders. No person may 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 this section. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 13, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)
9 V.S.A. § 2639
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2639. Disposition of correct and incorrect apparatus

§ 2639. Disposition of correct and incorrect apparatus|The Secretary shall approve for use and seal or mark with appropriate devices such weights and measures as he or she finds upon inspection and test to be "correct" as defined in section 2633 of this title, and shall reject and mark or tag as "rejected" such weights and measures as he or she finds, upon inspection or test, to be "incorrect" as defined in section 2633 of this title, but that in his or her best judgment are susceptible of satisfactory repair. However, such sealing or marking shall not be required with respect to such weights and measures as may be exempted therefrom by a regulation of the Secretary issued under section 2633 of this title. The Secretary shall condemn, and may seize and may destroy, weights and measures found to be incorrect that, in his or her best judgment, are not susceptible of satisfactory repair. Weights and measures that have been rejected may be confiscated and may be destroyed by the Secretary if not corrected as required by section 2642 of this title, or if used, or disposed of contrary to the requirements of section 2642 of this title. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 14, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)
9 V.S.A. § 2640
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2640. Police powers; right of entry and stoppage

§ 2640. Police powers; right of entry and stoppage|With respect to the enforcement of this chapter and any other laws dealing with weights and measures that he or she is, or may be, empowered to enforce, the Secretary is vested with full police powers, and may arrest, without formal warrant, any violator of those laws, and may seize for use as evidence, without formal warrant, incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts of packages of commodity found to be used, retained, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold, in violation of the law. In the performance of his or her official duties, the Secretary may enter and go into or upon, without formal warrant, any structure or premises, and may stop any person whatsoever and require him or her to proceed, with or without any vehicle of which he or she may be in charge, to some place that the Secretary may specify. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 15, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)
9 V.S.A. § 2641
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2641. Powers and duties of inspector

§ 2641. Powers and duties of inspector|The powers and duties given to the Secretary by sections 2634-2640 and 2767 of this title are also given to and imposed upon the inspectors when acting under the instructions and at the direction of the Secretary. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 16, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)
9 V.S.A. § 2642
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2642. Duty of owners of incorrect apparatus

§ 2642. Duty of owners of incorrect apparatus|Weights and measures that have been rejected under the authority of the Secretary or of an inspector shall remain subject to the control of the rejecting authority until such time as suitable repair or disposition thereof has been made as required by this section. The owners of the rejected weights and measures shall cause them to be made correct within the period authorized by the rejecting authority; or, in lieu of this, may dispose of them, 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 that use is issued by the rejecting authority; or until the rejection tag has been removed and the rejected device repaired and placed in service by a person duly registered to do so. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 17, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)
9 V.S.A. § 2643
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2643. Licenses; inspections; penalties

§ 2643. Licenses; inspections; penalties|(a) No person shall operate a retail point-of-sale laser scanning check-out system with more than two point-of-sale scanning points without first obtaining a license from the Secretary.  (1) The Secretary may issue a license without first testing the accuracy and use of the point-of-sale laser scanning check-out system pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. (2) The annual license fee shall be $10.00 per individual point-of-sale scanning point within a store. All single retail units that have two or fewer scanning points shall be exempt from this fee.   (b) The Secretary shall, from time to time, test the accuracy and use of laser scanning and other computer assisted check-out systems in stores. The Secretary shall compare the programmed computer price with the item price of any consumer commodity offered by a store. The store shall provide access to the computer as is necessary to allow the Secretary to conduct the accuracy test. If, upon review, the programmed price of a commodity exceeds the price printed on or the advertised price of the commodity, the store may be subject to license denial, revocation, suspension, or the administrative penalties allowed by 6 V.S.A. § 15 for overcharge errors identified in more than two percent of the commodities reviewed. (Added 1989, No. 198 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1991; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 2009, No. 134 (Adj. Sess.), § 18; 2015, No. 149 (Adj. Sess.), § 24.)
9 V.S.A. § 2652
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2652. Systems of weights and measures

§ 2652. 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 either one or both of these systems shall be used for all commercial purposes in the State of Vermont. The definitions of basic units of weight and measure, the tables of weight and measure, and weights and measures equivalents, as published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, are recognized and shall govern weighing and measuring equipment and transactions in the State. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 3, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1971, No. 69, § 3, eff. April 15, 1971; 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)
9 V.S.A. § 2653
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2653. State standards of weight and measure

§ 2653. State standards of weight and measure|Such weights and measures in conformity with the standards of the United States as have been supplied to the State by the federal government or otherwise obtained by the State for use as State standards shall, when they have been certified as being satisfactory for use as such by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, be the State standards of weight and measure. The State standards shall be kept in a safe and suitable place. They shall not be removed from the laboratory except for repairs or for calibration, or as otherwise necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 4, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1971, No. 69, § 4, eff. April 15, 1971; 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 4.)
9 V.S.A. § 2654
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2654. Field standards and equipment

§ 2654. Field standards and equipment|In addition to the State standards provided for in section 2653 of this title, there shall be supplied by the State such "field standards" and such equipment as may be found necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. The field standards shall be verified upon their initial receipt and, thereafter, as often as deemed necessary by the Secretary by comparison with the State standards. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 5, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1971, No. 69, § 5, eff. April 15, 1971; 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)
9 V.S.A. § 2655
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2655. Construction of contracts

§ 2655. Construction of contracts|Fractional parts of any unit of weight or measure shall mean like fractional parts of the value of such unit as prescribed or defined in sections 2651 and 2652 of this title, and all contracts concerning the sale of commodities and services shall be construed in accordance with this requirement. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 36, eff. April 14, 1967.)
9 V.S.A. § 2671
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2671. Method of sale of commodities; general

§ 2671. Method of sale of commodities; general|Commodities in liquid form shall be sold only by liquid measure or by weight, and, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, commodities not in liquid form shall be sold only by weight, by measure of length or area, or by count. However, liquid commodities may be sold by weight and commodities not in liquid form may be sold by count only if such methods give accurate information as to the quantity of commodity sold. The provisions of this section shall not apply (1) to commodities when sold for immediate consumption on the premises where sold, (2) to vegetables when sold by the head or bunch, (3) to commodities in containers standardized by a law of this State or by federal law, (4) to commodities in package form when there exists a general consumer usage to express the quantity in some other manner, (5) to concrete aggregates, concrete mixtures, and loose solid materials such as earth, soil, gravel, crushed stone, and the like, when sold by cubic measure, or (6) to unprocessed vegetable and animal fertilizer when sold by cubic measure. The Secretary may issue such reasonable regulations as are necessary to ensure 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 to all parties at interest. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 18, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)
9 V.S.A. § 2672
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2672. Packages, declarations of quantity and origin; variations; exemptions

§ 2672. Packages, declarations of quantity and origin; variations; exemptions|(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any 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 such definite, plain, and conspicuous declarations of:  (1) the identity of the commodity in the package unless the same can easily be identified through the wrapper or container; (2) the net quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure, or count; and (3) in the case of any package kept, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold any place other than on the premises where packed, the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor as may be prescribed by regulation issued by the Secretary.   (b) In connection with the declaration required under subdivision (a)(2) of this section, neither the qualifying term "when packed" or any words of similar import, nor any term qualifying a unit of weight, measure, or count, for example, "jumbo," "giant," "full," and the like, that tends to exaggerate the amount of commodity in a package, may be used. Under subdivision (a)(2) of this section the Secretary may, by regulation, establish: reasonable variations 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; exemptions as to small packages; and exemptions as to commodities put up in variable weights or sizes for sale intact and either customarily not sold as individual units or customarily weighed or measured at time of sale to the consumer. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 19, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)
9 V.S.A. § 2673
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2673. Declarations of unit price on random packages

§ 2673. Declarations of unit price on random packages|In addition to the declarations required by section 2672 of this title, any commodity in package form, the package being one of a lot containing random weights, measures, or counts of the same commodity and bearing the total selling price of the package, shall bear on the outside of the package a plain and conspicuous declaration of the price per single unit of weight, measure, or count. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 20, eff. April 14, 1967.)
9 V.S.A. § 2674
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2674. Misleading packages

§ 2674. Misleading packages|No commodity in package form may be so wrapped, nor may it be in a container so made, formed, or filled as to mislead the purchaser as to the quantity of the contents of the package, and the contents of a container shall not fall below such reasonable standard or fill as may have been prescribed for the commodity in question by the Secretary. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 21, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)
9 V.S.A. § 2675
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2675. Advertising packages for sale

§ 2675. Advertising packages for sale|Whenever a commodity in package form is advertised in any manner and the retail price of the package is stated in the advertisement, there shall be closely and conspicuously associated with that statement of price a declaration of the basic quantity of contents of the package as is required by law or regulation to appear on the package. When fruit packaged, graded by the packer, and sold by count is advertised, the advertisement must state the size. In connection with the declaration required under this section, there shall be declared neither the qualifying term "when packed" nor any other words of similar import, nor any term qualifying a unit of weight, measure, or count, for example, "jumbo," "giant," "full," and the like, that tends to exaggerate the amount of commodity in the package. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 22, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1971, No. 69, § 6, eff. April 15, 1971.)
9 V.S.A. § 2676
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2676. Sale by net weight

§ 2676. Sale by net weight|The word "weight" as used in this chapter in connection with any commodity shall mean net weight. Whenever any commodity is sold on the basis of weight, the net weight of the commodity shall be employed, and all contracts concerning commodities shall be so construed. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 23, eff. April 14, 1967.)
9 V.S.A. § 2677
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2677. Misrepresentation of price

§ 2677. Misrepresentation of price|Whenever any commodity or service is sold, or is offered, exposed, or advertised for sale, by weight, measure, or count, the price shall not be misrepresented, nor shall the price be represented in any manner calculated or tending to mislead or deceive an actual or prospective purchaser. Whenever an advertised, posted, or labeled price per unit of weight, measure, or count includes a fraction of a cent, all elements of the fraction or decimal shall be prominently displayed and the numeral or numerals expressing the fraction or decimal shall be immediately adjacent to, of the same general design and style as, and at least 40 percent the height and width of, the numerals representing the whole cents. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 24, eff. April 14, 1967.)
9 V.S.A. § 2691
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2691. Meat, poultry, and seafood

§ 2691. Meat, poultry, and seafood|Except for immediate consumption on the premises where sold or as one of several elements comprising a ready-to-eat meal sold by an eating establishment as a unit for consumption elsewhere than on the premises where sold, all meat, meat products, poultry, and all seafoods except mollusks offered or exposed for sale, or sold, as food shall be sold by weight. When meat, poultry, or seafood is combined with or associated with some other food elements to form either a distinctive food product or a food combination, such food product or combination shall be offered or exposed for sale and sold by weight, and the quantity representation may be the total weight of the product or combination, and a quantity representation need not be made for each of the several elements of the product or combination. Mollusks may be sold by weight or volume, but not by count except for oysters in the shell. On ready-to-cook, whole carcass, stuffed poultry, ready-to-cook stuffed poultry roasts, rolls, bars, and logs, and ready-to-cook stuffed poultry products designated by terms of similar import, the label must show the total net weight of the poultry product and, in proximity thereto, a statement specifying the minimum weight of poultry in the product. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 25, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1971, No. 69, § 7, eff. April 15, 1971.)
9 V.S.A. § 2692
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2692. Bulk milk tanks

§ 2692. Bulk milk tanks|(a) When installing a farm bulk tank or reconstructing a floor area supporting a bulk tank, the tank shall not be placed in service and used as a commercial measuring device unless a foundation has been constructed with due consideration of frost penetration and of sufficient strength to support the completely liquid-laden tank without change of level, and a steel plate not less than six inches square and not less than one-quarter inch thick is placed under each leg and the steel plate and the tank legs are cemented to the floor. Bulk tanks shall be calibrated using accepted practices approved by the consumer protection section as soon as possible after the milk house and bulk tank installation has been approved by the dairy section.(b) Whenever a check of a bulk milk tank by the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets or by a competent person or agency indicates a tank calibration is not accurate within official tolerances, the first handler receiving milk from the producer shall recalibrate the tank, unless the out-of-tolerance is caused by movement of the tank and the Secretary feels there will be continued movement, then the recalibration shall not be performed until a solid foundation has been constructed.(c) If the Secretary determines the bulk milk tank is not an accurate measure for milk or because of continued movement of the tank caused by a poor foundation, the Secretary may condemn the tank and forbid its use as a measuring device. Any person who alters a bulk tank weight conversion chart, uses other than the latest conversion chart issued, uses a condemned tank as a measure, uses a tank without the legs cemented to the floor, or changes the level position of a bulk milk tank without immediately notifying the Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Markets shall be fined not more than $500.00 for each offense.(d) The first handler receiving milk from a producer shall furnish competent personnel licensed by the consumer protection section to calibrate the producer's bulk milk tank. The word "handler" as used in this subsection shall mean a person, firm, unincorporated association, or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, assembling, packaging, or processing milk or other dairy products, for sale within or outside the State of Vermont.(e) [Repealed.]  (Added 1967, No. 102, § 26, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1971, No. 69, § 14, eff. April 15, 1971; 1973, No. 22, § 2; 1989, No. 257 (Adj. Sess.), § 16; 1991, No. 186 (Adj. Sess.),§§ 36a, 36b, eff. May 7, 1992; 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 1999, No. 49, § 128(1); 2011, No. 39, § 8, eff. May 19, 2011; 2013, No. 159 (Adj. Sess.), § 10.)
9 V.S.A. § 2693
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2693. Log measure- The Vermont rule

§ 2693. Log measure- The Vermont rule|In bargains for or purchase of saw logs or round timber by measure, the number of feet shall be ascertained either by the international log rule as designed by the U.S. Forestry Service for a one-quarter inch kerf or by the Vermont rule as follows: multiply the average diameter of the top of the log, inside the bark, in inches, by half such diameter in inches, disregarding fractions of an inch less than a half, and regarding fractions greater than a half as a full inch, and the number obtained as the product will represent the contents in feet of a log of that diameter 12 feet long. If the log is less than 12 feet long, the actual contents will be the same fraction of the above product as the actual length of the log is of 12 feet. If the log is more than 12 feet long, commence at the upper end and measure it into sections of 12 feet; then, according to the above rule, find the contents of each section and fractional section. The aggregate of the contents of the sections will be the contents of the whole log, and shall be marked on the small end as to its contents. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 27, eff. April 14, 1967.)
9 V.S.A. § 2695
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 9 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 73 - Weights and Measures|§ 2695. Fluid dairy products

§ 2695. Fluid dairy products|All fluid dairy products, including whole milk, skimmed milk, cultured milk, sweet cream, and buttermilk, shall be packaged for retail sale only in units of 1 gill, 1/2 liquid pint, 10 fluid ounces, 1 liquid pint, 1 liquid quart, 1/2 gallon, 1 gallon, 11/2 gallons, 2 gallons, and 21/2 gallons, or multiples of 1 gallon. Packages in units of less than 1 gill shall be permitted. On and after January 1, 1974, sour cream and yogurt shall be sold only in terms of weight, and shall be packaged for retail sale only in units of 4, 8, 12, 16, 32, 64 and 128 ounces avoirdupois except yogurt may also be sold in units of 5 and 6 ounces avoirdupois. (Added 1967, No. 102, § 29, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1969, No. 9, § 1; 1971, No. 69, § 8, eff. April 15, 1971; 1973, No. 22, § 3.)