Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › REGULATORY › Chapter 16-663 - Service agents - Reporting, test procedures, standards and calibration of weighing and measuring devices › Section 16-663-110 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Installation -
				Setting up for use, connecting or adjusting any new, used or remanufactured
				commercial weighing or measuring device being placed into service.
(2) Placed in service - To cause or permit
				the commercial usage of any commercial weighing or measuring device.
(3) Returned to service - The instance where
				servicepersons or service agencies are called upon to service, repair, or
				recondition a commercial weighing or measuring device that has been "rejected,"
				ordered "out of service," or "condemned" by weights and measures officials with
				the intent of placing such a device back into service.
(4) Registered serviceperson - Any individual
				who for hire, award, commission, or any other payment of any kind, installs,
				services, repairs, or reconditions a commercial weighing or measuring device,
				and who registers himself as such with the director.
(5) Registered service agent - Any agent,
				firm, partnership, company, or corporation, which, for hire, award, commission,
				or any other payment of any kind, installs, services, repairs, or reconditions
				a commercial weighing or measuring device, and which registers with the
				director.
(6) Commercial weighing
				and measuring device - Any weight or measure or weighing or measuring device
				commercially used or employed in establishing the size, quantity, extent, area,
				or measurement of quantities, things, produce, or articles for distribution or
				consumption, purchased, offered or submitted for sale, hire, or award, or in
				computing any basic charge or payment for services rendered on the basis of
				weight, measure or count. It shall include any accessory attached to or used in
				connection with a commercial weighing or measuring device when the accessory is
				designed or installed so that its operation affects, or may affect, the
				accuracy, correctness, or indication of the device.
(7) Reciprocity - The mutual cooperative
				interchange of rights and agreements between any other state or states that
				have similar rules and laws concerning registered service agents and
				recognition of standards.
(8)
				Laboratory - The metrology laboratory of any state, agency, or any recognized
				private industry metrology laboratory as determined by the director. All such
				laboratories must possess current appropriate National Institute of Standards
				and Technology (NIST) certifications.
(9) Accuracy - Commercial weighing or
				measuring devices are considered accurate when the performance or value - That
				is, its indications, its deliveries, its recorded representations, or its
				capacity or actual value, etc., as determined by tests made with suitable
				standards - Conforms to the standards, tolerances and other performance
				requirements set forth in the edition of National Institute of Standards and
				Technology Handbook 44 currently adopted by the director.
(10) Correct - A weighing or measuring device
				is considered correct when in addition to being accurate, it meets all
				applicable specifications and requirements as set forth in the edition of
				National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 44 currently adopted by
				the director.
(11) Certification -
				A document provided by the director to service agents registered with the
				department.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 19.94.010,
					 19.94.190. 00-22-072, §
					 16-663-110, filed 10/30/00, effective
					 11/30/00.