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MA Gen L ch 98 § 45 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 45 - Testing of Taximeters; Rules and Regulations

Section 45. All devices used upon vehicles for determining the cost of transportation shall be tested as to the correctness of measures and values indicated by them, and the deputy director may make rules and regulations to insure accuracy in the use thereof. Any owner or operator of a taxicab or other vehicle who refuses or neglects to comply with any rule or regulation so made by the director shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars or shall be subject to a civil citation as provided in section 29A.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 46 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 46 - Testing of Devices for Standardizing Production and Determining Wages, Capacity of Tanks or Containers; Sealing; Condemnation; Fee Schedule; Certificate; Accuracy of Automatic Devices

Section 46. The deputy director may, if he deems it desirable, and shall, upon request, test any weights, measures, instruments or mechanical devices of any kind used or intended to be used in standardizing the production of any manufactured article by controlling processes or by determining the dimensions, proportions or properties of materials or products, in determining wages or compensation for labor performed, in determining the dimensions or capacity of any tank, can or other container, or in determining the accuracy of any automatic weighing or measuring device. When any such weight, measure, instrument or mechanical device has been tested and found correct by the deputy director, he may seal the same. If he finds it inaccurate, he may, in his discretion, either condemn it or he may furnish the owner or user with a certificate indicating the amount and direction of any errors found by him. The deputy director may establish a suitable laboratory fee schedule for the testing of weights, measures, instruments or mechanical devices. This section shall not give to the said deputy director or to his inspectors the power to seal any of the devices which, on April twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty, were required by law to be sealed by the local sealers throughout the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 46a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 46a - Bulk Milk Tanks; Calibration and Sealing

Section 46A. Each bulk milk tank shall upon installation be calibrated and sealed by the director or his authorized representative. Reinstallation of a used bulk milk tank shall be considered as an original installation, provided it is for a new owner at other than the original premises. The deputy director shall prescribe rules governing the calibration and sealing of bulk milk tanks. The deputy director shall prepare the required interpolation charts for use in connection with such tanks, utilizing therefor a conversion figure of eight and six-tenths pounds per gallon of milk. A record of the inspection and calibration of all such tanks shall be kept by the deputy director. Whenever the recalibration of a bulk milk tank is requested, it shall be done by the deputy director and the party requesting the recalibration shall pay a fee therefor to be established and collected by the deputy director, but such fee shall not exceed fifteen dollars.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 47 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 47 - Annual Testing of Apothecaries' Weights and Measures; Sealing; Graduated Glass Measures; Approval; Designating Marks; Revocation of Authority

Section 47. Apothecaries and other persons dealing in or dispensing drugs, medicines or merchandise sold, dispensed or given away by apothecaries' weights or by apothecaries' liquid measure, shall, at least annually, cause the weights and measures so used to be tested and sealed by the sealer in the town where they do business; provided, that a graduated glass measure once sealed by a sealer, or by the manufacturer, need not be again sealed while remaining in the same condition as when first sealed. The deputy director shall establish specifications for graduated glass measures. When a representative sample of a graduated glass measure has been submitted to the deputy director and approved by him, as conforming to specifications, he shall assign a designating mark or number to be thereafter permanently affixed to such measures of the particular kind so approved. Graduated glass measures sealed by the manufacturer shall be marked with his name, initials or trade mark and by other marks required by the deputy director. The deputy director may revoke the authority so given to any manufacturer under this section on proof that the authorized seal or designating mark has been affixed to a measure not conforming to the approved sample.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 48 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 48 - Use of Untested Weights or Measures

Section 48. Whoever sells or dispenses drugs, medicines or merchandise requiring the use of apothecaries' weights or apothecaries' liquid measures or in the sale of which they are commonly used, and does not have such weights and measures tested under this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars or shall be subject to a civil citation as provided in section 29A.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 49 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 49 - Annual Tests of Hay and Coal Scales

Section 49. Sealers shall go once a year, and oftener if necessary, to each hay and coal scale and other weighing or measuring device in their towns not easily or conveniently removed, and shall test, adjust and seal or condemn them.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 50 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 50 - Tests of Weighing or Measuring Devices Upon Request; Results

Section 50. Whoever uses any weighing or measuring devices may have them tested by the sealer at any time upon request and the sealer shall seal or condemn the same in accordance with the results of his tests.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 51 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 51 - Sealing of Glass Milk and Cream Bottles or Jars

Section 51. When notified by a dealer in milk or cream using glass bottles or jars for the distribution thereof that he has in his possession not less than six gross of such bottles or jars not sealed, sealers shall forthwith seal them as provided in section fifteen, at a suitable place provided by the dealer.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 52 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 52 - Testing Incorrect Weights or Measuring Devices Upon Complaint; Entry; Use of Device

Section 52. If a person informs a sealer that he has reasonable cause to believe, or if such sealer has reasonable cause to believe, that any weighing or measuring device used in the sale of a commodity in his town is incorrect, said sealer shall go where it is and shall test and mark it according to the result of the test; and if it is incorrect and cannot be adjusted, he shall attach thereto a notice of that fact forbidding its use until it conforms to the authorized standard. If a sealer has reasonable cause to believe that any weighing or measuring device has been altered since last adjusted and sealed, he shall enter the premises where it is kept or used and examine it. Whoever uses a weighing or measuring device after refusing permission to a sealer to test it or has in his possession any weighing or measuring device that has been altered for fraudulent purposes since last adjusted and sealed shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 53 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 53 - Marking Devices With Stencil; Certificate; Notice Forbidding Use; Removal of Notice

Section 53. If a sealer cannot seal any weighing or measuring device in the usual manner, he may mark it with a stencil or by other suitable means, showing that it has been inspected; and if a weighing or measuring device is so small as to render it impracticable to seal it in the usual manner, he shall give a certificate in a form approved by the director, specifying each such weighing or measuring device so tested; but he shall in no case seal or mark as correct weighing or measuring devices not conforming to the standards. If such weighing or measuring device can be readily adjusted by means at hand, he may adjust and seal it; but if not, he shall affix thereto a notice forbidding its use until he is satisfied that it conforms to the standards; and whoever removes said notice without the consent of such officer shall forfeit not more than five hundred dollars, to be equally divided between the town and the complainant.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 54 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 54 - Seizure of Weighing or Measuring Devices for Evidence; Disposition

Section 54. A sealer or deputy may seize without a warrant weighing or measuring devices necessary to be used as evidence in cases of violation of the laws relative to the sealing thereof; and they shall be returned to the owners or forfeited, as the court directs.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 55 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 55 - Seizure of Devices Not Conforming to Legal Standards; Destruction

Section 55. A sealer or deputy may seize weighing or measuring devices not conforming to legal standards or not sealed as required by law; and a person having in his possession such weighing or measuring devices, with intent to use them in violation of law, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or shall be subject to a civil citation as provided in section 29A; and such devices, upon order of a court, shall be destroyed. Possession thereof shall be prima facie evidence of intention to use them in violation of law.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 56 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 56 - Fees of Sealers and Inspectors

Section 56. Except as otherwise established in a town by town meeting action and in a city by city council action, by adoptions of the appropriate by-laws and ordinances to set such fees, sealers shall receive and inspectors may demand the following fees for sealing and inspecting the following weighing or measuring devices:  (a) Each scale with a weighing capacity of more than ten thousand pounds, twenty-five dollars.  (b) Each scale with a weighing capacity of five thousand to ten thousand pounds, fifteen dollars.  (c) Each scale with a weighing capacity of one thousand to five thousand pounds, ten dollars.  (d) Each scale with a weighing capacity of one hundred to one thousand pounds, five dollars.  (e) Scales and balances with a weighing capacity of more than ten pounds and less than one hundred pounds, three dollars.  (f) Scales and balances with a weighing capacity of ten pounds or less, two dollars.  (g) Each liquid capacity measure, except vehicle tanks, of the capacity of more than one gallon and measures on pumps, fifty cents.  (h) Each liquid measuring meter, except water meters, the diameter of the inlet pipe of which is one half inch or less, two dollars, more than one half inch but not more than one inch, four dollars; for each such type of liquid measuring meter, the diameter of the inlet pipe of which is more than one inch, the following shall apply, vehicle-tank pump eight dollars, vehicle-tank gravity ten dollars, bulk storage twenty dollars, bulk storage user furnishes certified prover ten dollars.  (i) Each taximeter or measuring device used upon vehicles to determine the cost of transportation, four dollars.  (j) Each machine or other mechanical device used for determining linear or area measurement, two dollars.  (k) Milk bottle or jars, four dollars per gross.  (l) Vehicle tanks used in the sale of commodities by liquid measures shall be charged for each hundred gallons or fraction thereof, one dollar. An additional fee of two dollars per sealed indicator shall be received.  (m) All weights and other measures, twenty cents each.  (n) Each automated electronic retail checkout system with fewer than four cash registers or computer terminals, not more than $75.  (o) Each automated electronic retail checkout system with no less than four and no more than 11 cash registers or computer terminals, not more than $150.  (p) Each automated electronic retail checkout system with greater than 11 cash registers or computer terminals, not more than $250.  They shall also receive reasonable compensation for the use of special facilities, necessary repairs, alterations and adjustments made by them.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 56a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 56a - Location of Scales for Food Sold at Retail

Section 56A. Whoever places a scale or weighing device when used in weighing food sold at retail by weight in the presence of the purchaser so that the weight indicator may not be read and the weighing operations be observed by the purchaser shall be punished by a fine of $50, or shall be subject to a civil citation as provided in section 29A.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 56b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 56b - Computing Scales for Prepackaged Meat, Poultry or Fish; Penalty for Failure to Provide

Section 56B. Whoever being engaged in the business of selling prepackaged meat, poultry or edible fish at retail refuses or neglects to provide each outlet where said products are sold with a computing scale or refuses to reweigh a prepackaged item of meat, poultry or edible fish in the presence of a prospective purchaser, when so requested, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or shall be subject to a civil citation as provided in section 29A.  For the purpose of this section, a computing scale shall be deemed one that indicates the money values of a commodity weighed at predetermined unit prices throughout all or part of the weighing range of the scale.  For the purpose of this section, prepackaged meat, poultry, or edible fish shall not include (a) canned meat, poultry or fish; (b) prepackaged cold cuts or other processed meats; or (c) poultry or fish packaged off the premises and labelled with the net quantity of contents.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 56c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 56c - Placement of Cash Register; Observation of Total by Customer; Penalty

Section 56C. Whoever maintains a cash register or other mechanical device at a counter for totalling the monetary value of customer purchases at retail which is so hidden or in such a position that the total cannot be observed by the customer shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars or shall be subject to a civil citation as provided in section 29A.
MA Gen L ch 98 § 57 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 98 - Weights and Measures|Section 57 - Annual Report of the Acts of the Division of Standards

Section 57. The director of the office of consumer affairs shall prepare and submit to the governor, the general court and the senate and house committees on post audit and oversight an annual report of the acts of the division of standards. Said report shall include a description of the activities of inspectors of the division of standards and sealers for cities and towns, a description of the components of the weights and measures program, including but not limited to, an inventory of all weighing and measuring devices and equipment held by the division of standards, the most recent date of certification for each device or piece of equipment, total inspection results by category, results of tests performed pursuant to section 56D, total citations issued by category, and the net loss restored to consumers and merchants as a result of its enforcement program.
MA Gen L ch 99 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 99 - The Metric System of Weights and Measures|Section 1 - Authorization of Metric System; Carat Weight

Section 1. The weights and measures of the metric system may be employed and used in the commonwealth, and no contract or dealing shall be deemed invalid and no pleading in any court shall be open to objection because the weights or measures are stated therein in terms of the metric system; provided, that the carat weight of two hundred milligrams, and its multiples and subdivisions, shall be the sole legal standard for the buying and selling of diamonds and other precious stones. The metric weights and measures received from the United States and now in the custody of the deputy director of standards may be used as authorized standards, and shall in no case be removed from his custody except when necessary for their preservation or repair.
MA Gen L ch 99 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 99 - The Metric System of Weights and Measures|Section 2 - Tables of Weights and Measures

Section 2. The tables of weights and measures as set forth in the National Bureau of Standards Miscellaneous Publication, issued December 20, 1960, and titled ''Units of Weight and Measure, Definitions and Tables of Equivalents'', shall be recognized in the construction of contracts and in legal proceedings as establishing in terms of the metric system the equivalents of the other weights and measures expressed therein and may also be used for computing, determining and expressing in customary weights and measures the weights and measures of the metric system.
MA Gen L ch 99 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 99 - The Metric System of Weights and Measures|Section 3 - Deputy Director of Standards; Town Sealers of Weights and Measures; Duties

Section 3. The duties of the deputy director of standards and the duties and responsibilities of the sealer of weights and measures of each town, with respect to the keeping, care, verification and use of the standard weights and measures of the metric system, shall be the same as those established by law with respect to other standard weights and measures.
MA Gen L ch 99 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 99 - The Metric System of Weights and Measures|Section 4 - Verification, Adjustment and Sealing of Metric Weights and Measures

Section 4. The deputy director of standards may verify, adjust and seal all metric weights and measures brought to him for that purpose. The sealer of weights and measures in each town which has received the standard metric weights and measures shall verify, adjust and seal all metric weights and measures brought to him for that purpose from within the county where such town is situated, and he shall receive a reasonable compensation therefor; but he shall claim no fees for any sealing, verification or adjustment for the performance of which he may otherwise receive compensation by salary paid by the town.
MA Gen L ch 99 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 99 - The Metric System of Weights and Measures|Section 5 - Duties of Persons Using Metric System; Adjustment and Sealing; Record

Section 5. Every person who uses weights or measures of the metric system for the purpose of selling any goods, wares, merchandise or other commodities shall have them adjusted, sealed and recorded by an authorized sealer of weights and measures, and shall thereafter be responsible for the correctness and exactness of the same; and every person who illegally or fraudulently uses the metric weights or measures shall be liable to the same penalty to which he would have been liable if he had used other weights and measures.
MA Gen L ch 100 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 100 - Auctioneers|Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. In this chapter, the following words and terms, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:—  ''Auction'' or ''Public auction'', any sale, coming within its ordinary meaning, by public outcry, including in addition thereto, any sale by public outcry where property is offered first at a stated price and thereafter successively or gradually at lower prices until an acceptor or purchaser is found.  ''Auctioneer'', any person who, for a fee, commission, profit or any other valuable consideration, or with the intention or expectation of receiving the same, by means of, or process of, an auction or sale at auction, offers, negotiates or attempts to negotiate, a listing contract, sale, purchase or exchange of goods, chattels, merchandise, real or personal property, or of any other commodity which may lawfully be kept or offered for sale by or at public auction.  ''Auctioneering'', the business or act of selling real, personal or mixed property by successive, competitive bids.  ''Deputy director'', the deputy director of standards in the office of consumer affairs and business regulation.  ''Goods'', any chattels, livestock, merchandise, real or personal property, or commodities of any form or type which may be lawfully kept or offered for sale.  ''Local auction permit agent'', the person or persons so designated in a city by the mayor or in a town by the board of selectmen, or upon a failure to so designate or in the absence, incapacity or unavailability of any person or persons so designated, the chief of police.  ''Person'', individuals, associations, partnerships and corporations, and the officers, directors and employees of a corporation.
MA Gen L ch 100 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 100 - Auctioneers|Section 2 - Auctioneers; Licenses

Section 2. Except as otherwise provided, no person shall engage in the business of or act as an auctioneer in the commonwealth, directly or indirectly, either temporarily or as an incident to any other transaction, unless licensed under the provisions of this chapter.