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Heading: Handbook 44 Standards: Restrictions on Draining and Price-Changing

Text: California's technical requirements for commercial weighing and measuring adopt, by reference, the latest standards as recommended by the National Conference on Weights and Measures [NCWM] and published in the National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] Handbook 44 `Specifications and Tolerances, and other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices [Handbook 44][.]' Cal. Bus. & Prof.Code § 12107; see Cal.Code Regs. tit. 4, § 4000. [3] To earn the mandatory seal of approval from DMS, weighing and measuring devices sold or used commercially in California must conform to Handbook 44. See Cal.Code Regs. tit. 4, § 4000. Handbook 44 standards require two pertinent dispenser design features. First, discharging or draining of gasoline from the meter or hose is prohibited. Second, if dispensers offer multiple grades of gasoline at different prices per grade, the selection of the unit price shall be made prior to delivery using controls on the device or other customer-activated controls. A system shall not permit a change to the unit price during delivery of [the] product. NIST Handbook 44 S.1.6.5.4.