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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12501.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12501.1
Every person who uses, or intends to use, any weight or measure, or weighing or measuring instrument for commercial purposes shall, before using the same, cause them to be sealed by a sealer, unless they have been sealed before sale, in which case they may be used by the purchase
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12501.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12501.2
Notwithstanding other provisions of this division, a sealer shall not be required to inspect, test or seal any scales or other weighing or measuring instruments to be sold for use or being used for commercial purposes and so located that the testing standards, in the amount deeme
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12501.3
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12501.3
Notwithstanding any other requirements or provisions of this division, a sealer may permit the use of an unsealed device pending repairs if the device is in error only to the disadvantage of the user and if the user is always the seller. Such an unsealed device shall be repaired
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12502
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12502
Any weighing or measuring instrument, which, after being sold and before being used for weighing or measuring, it is necessary to assemble or set up, may be sold without first being tested and sealed but shall be tested and sealed before being used.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12503
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12503
Upon a written request of any resident of a county, there appearing reasonable ground therefor, the sealer shall test or cause to be tested, as soon thereafter as is practicable, the weights, measures, or weighing or measuring instruments used for commercial purposes by the perso
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12504
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12504
Upon the written request of any person who intends to use or sell for commercial purposes any weight or measure, or weighing or measuring instrument in any county, the sealer for such county shall test or cause to be tested, as soon thereafter as is practicable, the weight or mea
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12505
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12505
Whenever a sealer examines any weight or measure or weighing, measuring, or counting instrument used for commercial purposes, and finds it to be correct, he or she shall seal or mark the weight, measure, or instrument with an appropriate device approved by the department, placed
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12506
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12506
A sealer shall condemn and seize and may destroy incorrect weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments used for commercial purposes, which in his or her best judgment are not susceptible of repair, but any which the sealer finds susceptible of repair, he or she sh
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12507
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12507
The owners or users of any weights and measures or weighing or measuring instruments which have been marked “Out of Order,” shall have them repaired or corrected within 30 days, but until they have been repaired or corrected and tested the owners or users thereof may neither use
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12508
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12508
Except as provided in Section 12509, any person who removes or obliterates any tag or device placed upon any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument by a sealer is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12509
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12509
(a) When any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument has been repaired and corrected, and has been reinspected and found correct, the sealer shall remove the tag or device with the words “out of order,” and shall seal and mark that weight, measure, or weighing or mea
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12509.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12509.5
(a) For purposes of this section, “EVSE” or “electric vehicle supply equipment” means a device that is used in connection with the sale of electricity as a motor vehicle fuel for controlling the electricity supply from an electric vehicle charging station to a vehicle during a ch
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12510
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12510
(a) Any person, who by himself or herself, or through or for another, does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor: (1) Uses, for commercial purposes, or retains in his or her possession an incorrect weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument. (2) Sells any wei
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12511
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12511
Any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument tested and found correct by any sealer may be used within this state without any further test for such period as is authorized in the regulations adopted by the secretary pursuant to Section 12212. If tested and sealed and
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12511.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12511.1
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this division, any weight or measure, or weighing or measuring instrument, found correct or corrected by a registered service agency, as defined in Section 12531, authorized pursuant to Section 12509, may be used commercially pending reinsp
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12512
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12512
When the sale of any commodity is based upon a quantity representation either furnished by the purchaser or obtained through the use of equipment supplied by the purchaser, the purchaser shall in no case buy the commodity according to any quantity which is less than the true quan
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12513
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12513
Any sealing or testing of any weight, measure, weighing or measuring instrument by any employee of the department authorized for the purpose shall have the same force and effect as a sealing or testing by a sealer or his deputy.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12514
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12514
No sealer shall sell or be interested directly or indirectly in the sale of any weighing or measuring instrument, nor shall he accept a fee, compensation, or gratuity of any kind for adjusting or repairing any weighing or measuring instrument.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12515
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12515
(a) Any person having made repairs or adjustments to any weighing instrument or to any measuring instrument, or any person having sold, rented, leased, loaned, or installed any such instrument, who within 24 hours after the instrument has been sold, rented, leased, loaned, instal
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12516
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12516
It shall be unlawful for any person to locate or position any scale used in connection with the auctioning of livestock so that its indications are not readily and clearly readable to the buyer and seller, unless a state certificate of weights and measures, made at the time of we
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12517
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12517
Every owner of a coin-operated person weigher shall place on such weigher, in a prominent position, in letters at least three-sixteenths inches in height and in bold type, the following statement: “This scale may not have been checked for accuracy.”
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12518
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12518
A water submeter submitted to a sealer by an owner, user, or operator for inspection and testing before its initial installation that is found to be incorrect, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 12500, shall be marked with the words “Out of Order,” in accordance with Sectio
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12519
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12519
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, an owner, user, or operator of a water submeter that has previously been sealed, installed, and used commercially who submits the water submeter to a sealer for inspection and testing shall not be subject to criminal prosecution or liable for ot
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12531
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12531
As used in this chapter, the following definitions are applicable: (a) “Service agency” means a person, as defined in Section 12011, that for hire, award, commission, or any other payment of any kind, repairs a commercial device. (b) “Service agent” means a person employed by a s
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12532
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 12532
(a) No person shall engage in business as a service agency unless the person is registered by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture pursuant to this chapter and unless the current registration fee and any penalty has been paid. (b) Applications for registration shall be in writin