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CT Gen Stat § 43-3c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 750 - Weights and Measures|Section 43-3c - Package checking procedures.

 The Commissioner of Weights and Measures shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 incorporating by reference the package checking procedures, as adopted and as amended from time to time, by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and published in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 133, or subsequent corresponding handbook of the United States Department of Commerce.(P.A. 95-332, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-4 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 750 - Weights and Measures|Section 43-4 - Chief executive municipal officers to procure complete set of standards.

 The chief executive officer of each municipality required to appoint a sealer under the provisions of this chapter shall procure, at the expense of the municipality, and shall keep, at all times, a complete set of weights and measures and other apparatus, of such materials and construction as the Commissioner of Weights and Measures may direct. All such weights, measures and other apparatus, having been tried and accurately proven by said commissioner, shall be sealed and certified to by him and shall then be deposited with and preserved by the sealer as public standards for such municipality. Whenever any municipality neglects, for six months, to do so, the clerk or comptroller of such municipality, on notification and request by the Commissioner of Weights and Measures, shall provide such standards and cause the same to be tried, sealed and deposited, at the expense of the municipality.(1949 Rev., S. 6748; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 58.)History: 1959 act deleted references to counties and changed “city” to “municipality”.
CT Gen Stat § 43-5 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 750 - Weights and Measures|Section 43-5 - County sealers of weights and measures.

 Section 43-5 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 6749; 1957, P.A. 76, S. 2; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 99.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-6 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 750 - Weights and Measures|Section 43-6 - Municipal sealers of weights and measures.

 There shall be a sealer of weights and measures in each municipality of not less than seventy-five thousand population, according to the most recent figures certified to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management by the Commissioner of Public Health pursuant to section 19a-2a, to be appointed by the chief executive officer of such municipality. A sealer of weights and measures may be appointed for municipalities having less than seventy-five thousand population by the chief executive officer or board of selectmen of such municipality. Whenever any municipality required by this section to appoint a sealer of weights and measures fails to do so or when a municipal sealer appointed under the provisions of this section fails or neglects to perform his duties, the Commissioner of Weights and Measures may direct his inspectors to perform the duties of the municipal sealer. The clerk or comptroller of each municipality required by this section to appoint a sealer shall, upon notification and request by the Commissioner of Weights and Measures, reimburse the state for the cost of such services rendered. Municipal sealers of weights and measures shall perform the same duties and have the same powers within their jurisdiction as are vested in the Commissioner of Weights and Measures for the state except those powers and duties exempted and reserved to the Commissioner of Weights and Measures by regulation promulgated under the provisions of section 43-3. In those municipalities in which no sealer is required by or appointed under the provisions of this section, the Commissioner of Weights and Measures or his inspectors shall perform these duties and have these powers. Nothing in the foregoing provisions shall be so construed as to prevent any contiguous municipalities from combining the whole or any part of their respective territories, as may be agreed upon, with one sealer, subject to the written approval of the Commissioner of Weights and Measures. A sealer appointed in pursuance of any agreement for such combination shall, subject to the terms of his appointment, have the same jurisdiction and duties as if he had been appointed by each of the authorities who are parties to the agreement.(1949 Rev., S. 6750; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 59; 1969, P.A. 810, S. 2; P.A. 97-96, S. 2.)History: 1959 act deleted references to counties and changed “city” to “municipality”; 1969 act required sealer in municipalities of at least 75,000, rather than 25,000, people and permitted municipalities of fewer people to appoint sealers at their discretion, further added provisions re performance of sealer's duties by commissioner's inspectors and municipalities required reimbursement of state for services rendered where sealer fails or neglects to perform duties or where municipality fails to appoint sealer; P.A. 97-96 replaced reference to United States census figures with reference to figures certified pursuant to Sec. 19a-2a.Cited. 163 C. 588.
CT Gen Stat § 43-7 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 750 - Weights and Measures|Section 43-7 - Arrest without warrant. Issuance of orders. Application of condemned tags.

 The Commissioner of Weights and Measures, his inspectors and the municipal sealers of weights and measures shall each have power to arrest, without warrant, any violator of the laws relating to weights and measures, and to seize, without warrant, for use as evidence, any false or unsealed weight, measure or weighing or measuring device, or package or amount of any commodity, found to be used, retained, offered or exposed for sale or sold in violation of law. The commissioner, his inspectors and the municipal sealers may also issue stop use, hold and removal orders with respect to any such weights and measures commercially used and stop sale, hold and removal orders with respect to the weight or measure of any such packaged commodities or bulk commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale. Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes or regulations adopted thereunder, the commissioner and his inspectors may also issue stop use, hold and removal orders with respect to any weights and measures devices found to be defective or otherwise in violation of section 22a-174 or regulations adopted under said section. The commissioner, his inspectors and the municipal sealers of weights and measures may apply a condemned tag to any false weight, measure or weighing or measuring device or to any weighing or measuring instrument or device to which a sealer of weights and measures has attached a seal or tag which has been tampered with, marked, defaced, removed, forged or counterfeited.(1949 Rev., S. 6751; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 60; P.A. 84-279, S. 3; P.A. 88-36; P.A. 95-332, S. 3.)History: 1959 act deleted reference to county sealers and changed “city” to “municipal”; P.A. 84-279 allowed the application of a condemned tag to any measuring device which has been tampered with; P.A. 88-36 provided for the issuance of stop use, hold and removal orders with respect to weights and measures and of stop sale, hold and removal orders with respect to packaged or bulk commodities; P.A. 95-332 extended stop use, hold and removal powers to cover weights and measure devices found to be defective or otherwise in violation of Sec. 22a-174.
CT Gen Stat § 43-8 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 750 - Weights and Measures|Section 43-8 - Standards for towns. Duties and salary of inspector.

 Section 43-8 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 6752; 1969, P.A. 810, S. 3.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-8a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 750 - Weights and Measures|Section 43-8a - Uniform Open Dating Regulation. Regulations. Exemptions.

 The Commissioner of Weights and Measures shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, incorporating, by reference, the voluntary version of the Uniform Open Dating Regulation, as adopted and as amended from time to time, by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and published in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 130, or subsequent corresponding handbook of the United States Department of Commerce. Dairy foods required to be marked with a last sale date pursuant to section 22-197b shall be exempt from the provisions of this section.(P.A. 08-99, S. 1.)History: P.A. 08-99 effective January 1, 2009.
CT Gen Stat § 43-16a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16a - Definitions.

 When used in this chapter:(1) “Licensed public weigher” means a natural person licensed under the provisions of this chapter;(2) “Vehicle” means any device in, upon or by which any property, produce, commodity or article is or may be transported or drawn;(3) “Commissioner” means the state Commissioner of Weights and Measures.(P.A. 77-409, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-16b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16b - Commissioner of Weights and Measures. Powers.

 The commissioner is authorized to enforce the provisions of this chapter and he may issue from time to time, in accordance with chapter 54, reasonable regulations for the enforcement of this chapter, which regulations shall have the force and effect of law.(P.A. 77-409, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-16c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16c - Licenses. Qualifications.

 Any person who is a resident of the state of Connecticut, is not less than eighteen years of age, is of good moral character and has the ability to weigh accurately and to make correct weight certificates may apply to the commissioner for a license as a licensed public weigher.(P.A. 77-409, S. 3.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-16d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16d - License application forms. Requirements.

 An application for a license as a licensed public weigher shall be made upon a form prescribed by the commissioner and the application shall furnish evidence that the applicant has the qualifications required by section 43-16c.(P.A. 77-409, S. 4.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-16e (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16e - Determination of qualifications.

 The commissioner may adopt rules for determining the qualifications of the applicant for a license as a licensed public weigher. He may pass upon the qualifications of the applicant upon the basis of the information supplied in the application, or he may examine such applicant orally or in writing, or both, for the purpose of determining his qualifications. He shall grant licenses as licensed public weighers to such applicants as may be found to possess the qualifications required by section 43-16c. The commissioner shall keep a record of all such applications and of all licenses issued thereon.(P.A. 77-409, S. 5.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-16f (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16f - Fees.

 Before the issuance of any license as a licensed public weigher, or any renewal thereof, the applicant shall pay to the commissioner a fee of forty dollars.(P.A. 77-409, S. 6; P.A. 89-251, S. 186, 203; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 387.)History: P.A. 89-251 increased the fee from $10 to $20; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 increased fee from $20 to $40.
CT Gen Stat § 43-16g (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16g - Limited licenses for state officers or employees.

 The commissioner may, upon request and without charge, issue a limited license as a licensed public weigher to any qualified officer or employee of a state commission, board, institution or agency, authorizing such officer or employee to act as a licensed public weigher only within the scope of his official employment on behalf of the state commission, board, institution or agency of which he is an officer or employee.(P.A. 77-409, S. 7.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-16h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16h - License expiration.

 Each license as licensed public weigher shall expire annually. Renewal applications shall be in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe.(P.A. 77-409, S. 8; P.A. 94-36, S. 34, 42.)History: P.A. 94-36 deleted reference to the “thirtieth day of June” license expiration date, effective January 1, 1995.See Sec. 21a-10(b) re staggered schedule for license renewals.
CT Gen Stat § 43-16i (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16i - Weight certificates. Information required.

 The weight certificate issued by a licensed public weigher shall state the date of issuance, the kind of property, produce, commodity or article weighed, the name of the declared owner or agent of the owner or of the consignee of the material weighed, the accurate weight of the material weighed, the means by which the material was being transported at the time it was weighed, such other available information as may be necessary to distinguish or identify the property, produce, commodity or article from others of like kind, and such other information required by statutes of this state or by regulations authorized to be issued for the enforcement of this chapter.(P.A. 77-409, S. 9.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-16j (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16j - Gross, tare and net weights.

 A licensed public weigher shall not enter on a weight certificate issued by him any weight values but such as he has personally determined, and he shall make no entries on a weight certificate issued by some other person. A weight certificate shall be so prepared as to show clearly that weight or weights were actually determined. If the certificate form provides for the entry of gross, tare, and net weights, in any case in which only the gross, the tare or the net weight is determined by the weigher, he shall strike through or otherwise cancel the printed entries for the weights not determined or computed. If gross and tare weights are shown on a weight certificate and both of these were not determined on the same scale and on the day for which the certificate is dated, the weigher shall identify on the certificate the scale used for determining each such weight and the date of each such determination.(P.A. 77-409, S. 10.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-16k (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16k - Weight determinations. Devices used.

 When making a weight determination as provided for by this chapter, a licensed public weigher shall use a weighing device that is of a type suitable for the weighing of the amount and kind of material to be weighed and that has been tested and approved for use by a weights and measures officer of this state within a period of twelve months immediately preceding the date of the weighing.(P.A. 77-409, S. 11.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-16l (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16l - Scales. Size and capacity.

 A licensed public weigher shall not use any scale to weigh a load the value of which exceeds the nominal or rated capacity of the scale. When the gross or tare weight of any vehicle or combination of vehicles is to be determined, the weighing shall be performed upon a scale having a platform of sufficient size to accommodate such vehicle or combination of vehicles fully, completely and as one entire unit. If a combination of vehicles must be broken up into separate units in order to be weighed as prescribed herein, each such separate weight certificate shall be issued for each such separate unit.(P.A. 77-409, S. 12.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-16m (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16m - Maintenance of records.

 A licensed public weigher shall keep and preserve for at least one year, or such longer period as may be specified in the regulations authorized to be issued for the enforcement of this chapter, a legible carbon copy of each weight certificate issued by him, which copies shall be open at all reasonable times for inspection by any weights and measures officer of this state.(P.A. 77-409, S. 13.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-16n (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16n - Persons permitted to obtain licenses.

 The following persons shall not be required, but shall be permitted, to obtain licenses as licensed public weighers: (1) A weights and measures officer when acting within the scope of his official duties, (2) a person weighing property, produce, commodities or articles that he or his employer, if any, is either buying or selling, and (3) a person weighing property, produce, commodities or articles in conformity with the requirements of federal statutes or the statutes of this state relative to warehousemen or processors.(P.A. 77-409, S. 14.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-16o (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16o - License required.

 No person shall assume the title licensed public weigher, or any title of similar import, perform the duties or acts to be performed by a licensed public weigher under this chapter, hold himself out as a licensed public weigher, issue any weight certificate ticket, memorandum or statement for which a fee is charged, or engage in the full-time or part-time business of public weighing, unless he holds a valid license as a licensed public weigher. As used in this section, “public weighing” means the weighing for any person, upon request, of property, produce, commodities or articles other than those which the weigher or his employer, if any, is either buying or selling.(P.A. 77-409, S. 15; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 71, 121; P.A. 14-122, S. 178.)History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 made a technical change, effective June 24, 1998; P.A. 14-122 made a technical change.
CT Gen Stat § 43-16p (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16p - Suspension or revocation of licenses.

 The commissioner is authorized to suspend or revoke the license of any licensed public weigher (1) when he is satisfied, after a hearing upon ten days' notice to the licensee, that such licensee has violated any provision of this chapter or of any valid regulation of the commissioner affecting licensed public weighers, or (2) when a licensed public weigher has been convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of violating any provision of this chapter or of any regulation issued under authority of this chapter.(P.A. 77-409, S. 16.)
CT Gen Stat § 43-16q (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 751 - Public Weighers|Section 43-16q - Penalties.

 (a) Any person who requests a licensed public weigher to weigh any property, produce, commodity or article falsely or incorrectly, or who requests a false or incorrect weight certificate, or any person who issues a weight certificate simulating the weight certificate prescribed in this chapter and who is not a licensed public weigher, shall, for the first offense, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars or more than one hundred dollars and, for any subsequent offense, be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.(b) Any licensed public weigher who falsifies a weight certificate, or who delegates his authority to any person not licensed as a licensed public weigher, or who preseals a weight certificate with his official seal before performing the act of weighing, shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.(c) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto for which no specific penalty has been provided shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars or more than one hundred dollars.(d) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection, after conducting a hearing in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, may impose a civil penalty of not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense and not more than five hundred dollars for any subsequent offense on any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter. Each violation with respect to each such unit, certificate, device or scale shall be considered a separate offense.(P.A. 77-409, S. 17–19; P.A. 78-331, S. 22–24, 58; P.A. 90-125, S. 9; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1; P.A. 12-80, S. 185.)History: P.A. 78-331 made technical grammatical correction, substituting “nor” for “or” as necessary; P.A. 90-125 added Subsec. (d) re administrative penalties; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004; P.A. 12-80 amended Subsec. (a) to delete “upon conviction” and change penalty for subsequent offense from a fine of not less than $100 or more than $500 or imprisonment of not less than 30 days or more than 90 days or both to a class C misdemeanor, amended Subsec. (b) to change penalty from a fine of not less than $50 or more than $500 or imprisonment of not less than 30 days or more than 90 days or both to a class C misdemeanor, and made technical changes.
CT Gen Stat § 43-17 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 752 - Weight and Measurement of Specific Articles|Section 43-17 - Pound, hundredweight, ton, barrel, gallon.

 The avoirdupois pound shall bear to the troy pound the relation of seven thousand to five thousand seven hundred sixty. The hundredweight shall contain one hundred avoirdupois pounds; and the ton, twenty hundredweight. The barrel for liquids shall contain thirty-one and one-half gallons, except the barrel for beer, ale and porter which shall contain thirty-one gallons; and the hogshead, two barrels. The liquid gallon shall contain two hundred thirty-one cubic inches.(1949 Rev., S. 6757; P.A. 10-32, S. 127.)History: P.A. 10-32 made technical changes, effective May 10, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 43-18 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 752 - Weight and Measurement of Specific Articles|Section 43-18 - Bushel. Charcoal, flour, potatoes.

 The bushel in struck measure shall contain twenty-one hundred fifty and forty-two hundredths cubic inches, and in heap measure twenty-five hundred sixty-four cubic inches, except that each bushel of charcoal shall contain twenty-seven hundred forty-eight cubic inches. When sold by weight, the bushel of charcoal shall weigh twenty pounds when commercially dry; the barrel of flour, one hundred ninety-six pounds, and the barrel of potatoes, one hundred fifty pounds.(1949 Rev., S. 6758; P.A. 10-32, S. 128.)History: P.A. 10-32 made technical changes, effective May 10, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 43-19 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 43 - Weights and Measures|Chapter 752 - Weight and Measurement of Specific Articles|Section 43-19 - Weight of bushel in various articles. Penalty.

 Section 43-19 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 6759; 1969, P.A. 90.)