Arizona Administrative Code › Title 3 - AGRICULTURE › Chapter 7 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES SERVICES DIVISION › Article 1 - ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES › Section R3-7-101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The definitions in A.R.S. §§
									3-3401,
				  3-3414,
				  3-3436, and
				  3-3511 and the following
				  definitions apply to this Chapter:
1.
				"ADEQ" means the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.
2. "Administrative order" means a notice that
				the Division issues for a violation of A.R.S. Title 3, Chapter 19, or this
				Chapter, that orders a person to take corrective action, and may include hold
				or removal orders, and Warning, Out-of-Service, and Stop-Sale, Stop-Use tags.
3. "Application" means, for purposes of
				R3-7-108, forms and all documents and additional information the Division
				requires an applicant to submit when applying for a license.
4. "ASTM" means ASTM International.
5. "Area A" has the same meaning as in A.R.S.
				§
									49-541.
6. "Area B" has the same meaning as in A.R.S.
				§
									49-541.
7. "Area C" has the same meaning as in A.R.S.
				§
									3-3401.
8. "Authority to Construct" means written
				pre-approval by the Division to allow construction of vapor recovery
				systems.
9. "CARB" means the California Air Resources
				Board.
10. "CARB-certified" means, with respect to a vapor
				recovery system or component, that the system or component has been certified
				in a CARB Executive Order.
11. "Day" means a calendar day
				unless otherwise specified.
12.
				"EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
13. "Field calibration standard" has the same
				meaning as "secondary standards" in A.R.S. §
									3-3401(38), and
				includes all test equipment such as weights, weight sets, measures, meters,
				counters, or other devices that are required for use by registered service
				agencies and representatives to certify the accuracy of commercial devices, and
				are required to be approved annually by the state metrology laboratory under
				A.R.S. §
									3-3416.
14. "Gasoline vapors"
				means volatile organic compounds in a gaseous state.
15. "Handbook 44"
				means the United States Department of Commerce, Office of Weights and Measures,
				NIST Handbook 44,
Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical
				Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices
, Government Publishing
				Office, P.O. Box 979050, St. Louis, MO 63197-9000 or bookstore.gpo.gov (2022
				edition), incorporated by reference and on file with the Division. This
				incorporation by reference contains no future editions or amendments.
16.
				"Handbook 130" means the United States Department of Commerce, Office of
				Weights and Measures, NIST Handbook 130,
Uniform Laws and
				Regulations
, Government Publishing Office, P.O. Box 979050, St. Louis,
				MO 63197-9000 or bookstore.gpo.gov (2022 edition), incorporated by reference
				and on file with the Division. This incorporation by reference contains no
				future editions or amendments.
17. "Handbook 133"
				means the United States Department of Commerce, Office of Weights and Measures,
				NIST Handbook 133,
Checking The Net Contents of Packaged
				Goods
, Government Publishing Office, P.O. Box 979050, St. Louis, MO
				63197-9000 or bookstore.gpo.gov (2020 edition), incorporated by reference and
				on file with the Division. This incorporation by reference contains no future
				editions or amendments.
18.
				"Monthly throughput" means the total amount of gasoline transferred into or
				dispensed from a gasoline dispensing site during one calendar month.
19.
				"NCWM" means the National Conference on Weights and Measures.
20. "Net quantity" means that quantity of
				packaged product remaining after all necessary deductions for tare have been
				made.
21. "NIST" means the National Institute of Standards
				and Technology.
22. "Operator" means a person in control of, or having
				responsibility for, the daily operation of a gasoline dispensing
				site.
23. "Out-of-Service tag" means a red rejection tag
				that prohibits the further commercial use of a device, signifying that a
				commercial device does not meet the requirements of A.R.S. Title 3, Chapter 19,
				Handbook 44, or this Chapter.
24. "Person" has the same meaning as
				prescribed in A.R.S. §
									3-3401, but includes an owner or
				operator of a commercial device or vapor recovery system, retail seller,
				wholesaler, registered supplier, pipeline, third-party terminal, packer,
				manufacturer, licensee, transporter, or consignee.
25. "Placed in
				service" means the certification by a registered service agency or
				representative that a commercial device meets the requirements of Title 3,
				Chapter 19, Handbook 44, and this Chapter and may be used, unless the Division
				orders otherwise.
26. "Placed-in-service report" means the form that a
				registered service representative completes and submits to the Division after
				newly installing a commercial device or restoring a commercial device into
				service.
27. "Retail" means the
				sale of a commodity to a consumer.
28. "Retail price inspection" means the
				inspection of a retail location for compliance with retail price posting or
				retail price verification requirements.
29. "Seal of
				Authority" means a physical or electronic stamp or press of the Division
				official mark, issued to a public weighmaster, certifying the public
				weighmaster's authority to issue weight certificates.
30.
				"Service counter" means a display staffed by a sales associate and requires a
				customer to receive assistance in order to purchase a product.
31.
				"Stage I vapor recovery system" has the same meaning as in A.R.S. §
									3-3511.
32. "Stage II vapor
				recovery system" means a system where at least 90% by weight of the gasoline
				vapors that are displaced or drawn from a vehicle fuel tank during refueling
				are transferred to a vapor-tight holding system or vapor control
				system.
33. "Stop-Sale, Stop-Use tag" means a blue tag or blue
				tape that signifies that a commercial device, including a vapor recovery system
				or vapor recovery component, or a commodity or liquid fuel, does not meet the
				requirements of A.R.S. Title 3, Chapter 19, Handbook 44, Handbook 130, Handbook
				133, CARB Executive Orders, or this Chapter.
.
34.
				"Underground storage tank" means a tank as described in A.R.S. §
									49-1001.
35.
				"Vapor recovery registered service representative" means an individual to whom
				the Division has issued a license authorizing the individual to conduct all
				vapor-recovery tests required under A.R.S. Title 3, Chapter 19, or this Chapter
				including annual vapor-recovery tests.
36. "Vapor recovery test equipment" means all
				test equipment such as measures, meters, counters or other devices that are
				required for use by registered service agencies and representatives to verify
				the performance of vapor recovery systems, and are certified according to CARB
				test procedures, manufacturer specifications or this Chapter.
37.
				"Warning tag" means a yellow tag that signifies a commercial device, vapor
				recovery system, or vapor recovery component does not comply with Title 3,
				Chapter 19, Handbook 44, CARB Executive Orders, or this Chapter.
38.
				"Weight certificate" means a document, issued by a public weighmaster in a form
				approved by the Division, which certifies the accuracy of the weight of the
				commodity measured.