California Code of Regulations › Title 4 - Business Regulations › Division 9 - Division of Measurement Standards, Department of Food and Agriculture › Chapter 4 - Registration of Service Agencies for Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices › Section 4085 - Responsibility of a Service Agency

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Each
				service agency shall be responsible for compliance with the following:
(1) Repairing or Placing Devices into
				Service. -- Each service agency shall place into service, upon installation or
				following repair, a device in such a manner that it meets all the requirements
				of Division 5 of the California Business and Professions Code and all the
				requirements of the California Code of Regulations, Title 4, Division 9.
				Weighing or measuring devices which are not "correct", as defined by Section
				12500(c)
				of the Business and Professions Code, shall not be placed into
				service.
(2) Notice to County
				Sealer of Repairing or Placing of Device into Service by Service Agency. --
				Each service agency shall notify the county sealer of the repairing or placing
				in service of any device. The notice shall be in writing, and transmitted to
				the county sealer within the 24-hour period following the repair, except as
				provided by Business and Professions Code Section
				12515(b).
The notification shall include the following minimum
				  identifying information;
(i) Name and
				address of service agency.
(ii)
				Location of device(s). Name and address, including if available the unique
				identifier used by the business (e.g., pump or checkstand number).
(iii) Name of service agent.
(iv) Date of adjustment, repair, placing, or
				replacing into service.
(v) Name of
				device manufacturer(s).
(vi) Model
				designation(s) and serial number(s) of the device(s).
(vii) On new installations, the National
				Institute of Standards and Technology or National Conference on Weights and
				Measures Certificate of Conformance number(s) for each separately approved
				component or device, if marked on the component or device.
(3) Security Seal. -- Service agents shall
				replace a security seal on any adjustment mechanism where the seal was required
				to be removed for service, repair, or installation. Before placing a device
				into service, service agents shall install a security seal on any adjustment
				mechanism designed to be sealed.
(4) Identification of Service Agency Work. --
				Service agents shall identify their work on each device by applying an adhesive
				tag or label in a conspicuous location on the device. The adhesive tag or label
				shall show the name, registration number and business telephone number of the
				service agency, the license number of the service agent performing the work,
				and the date. Any security seal required pursuant to Section
				12107
				of the California Business and Professions Code shall show the registration
				number of the service agency and the year the security seal was placed on the
				device.
(5) Certificate of Accuracy
				of Standards. -- A service agency shall, on request from a sealer, show a copy
				of the certification of accuracy for the standards used to place a device into
				service.