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This law was first created in 1992. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 242 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1992 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2008, chapter 860<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":76090,"section_number":"3.2-5628","catch_line":"Weights and Measures Fund established; purpose","order_by":null,"url":"\/3.2-5628\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":65679,"section_number":"3.2-5600","catch_line":"Definitions generally","order_by":null,"url":"\/3.2-5600\/"},{"id":63027,"section_number":"3.2-5609","catch_line":"Testing and inspection of weights and measures offered for sale or commercially used","order_by":null,"url":"\/3.2-5609\/"}],"permalink":{"id":197983,"object_type":"law","relational_id":55093,"identifier":"3.2-5700","token":"3.2\/IV\/57\/3.2-5700","url":"\/3.2-5700\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/3.2-5700\/","token":"3.2\/IV\/57\/3.2-5700","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 3.2-5700","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Certificate of Conformance<\/span>” means a document issued by the National Type Evaluation Program of the National Institute of Standards<\/span> and Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Department<\/span> of Commerce based on testing in participating laboratories, said document constituting evidence<\/span> of conformance of a type with the requirements of:<\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> National Institute of Standards<\/span> and Technology Handbook 44; Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> National Institute of Standards<\/span> and Technology Handbook 105-1, Specifications and Tolerances for Reference Standards<\/span> and Field Standard<\/span> Weights and Measures, Specifications and Tolerances for Field Standard<\/span> Weights (NIST Class F); <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> National Institute of Standards<\/span> and Technology Handbook 105-2, Specifications and Tolerances for Reference Standards<\/span> and Field Standard<\/span> Weights and Measures, Specifications and Tolerances for Field Standard<\/span> Measuring Flasks; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

4.<\/span> National Institute of Standards<\/span> and Technology Handbook 105-3, Specifications and Tolerances for Reference Standards<\/span> and Field Standard<\/span> Weights and Measures, Specifications and Tolerances for Graduated Neck Type Volumetric Field Standards<\/span>, and supplements thereto, or any publication revising or superseding the publications specified in this definition.\n\t\t\t“Condemnation tag<\/span>” means a tag applied to a weight or measure<\/span> that fails to pass an official inspection<\/span>, the application of which tag requires the immediate removal of the weight or measure<\/span> from service.\n\t\t\t“Official inspection<\/span>” means an inspection by the Commissioner<\/span> of a commercially used weight or measure<\/span> pursuant to § 3.2-5609<\/a>.\n\t\t\t“Rejection tag<\/span>” means a tag applied to a weight or measure<\/span> that fails to pass an official inspection<\/span>, the application of which tag requires the removal of the weight or measure<\/span> from service if the weight or measure<\/span> is not adjusted to conform to requirements specified by the Weights and Measures Act of Virginia (§ 3.2-5600<\/a> et seq.) or any regulation adopted hereunder.\n\t\t\t“Service agency” means: (i) a business; or (ii) that portion of a government or political subdivision engaged in the adjustment, installation, placing in service, recommending for use, reconditioning, repairing, servicing, or selling of any weight or measure<\/span> commercially used or employed (a) in establishing the size, quantity, extent, area, or measurement of quantities, things, products, or articles for distribution or consumption, purchased, offered, or submitted for sale, hire, or award, or (b) in computing any basic charge or payment for services rendered on the basis of something’s weight or its measure.\n\t\t\t“Service technician<\/span>” means any individual who for hire, award, commission, or any other payment of any kind, adjusts, installs, places in service, recommends for use, reconditions, repairs, services, or sells a commercial weight or measure<\/span>.\n\t\t\t“Standard<\/span>” means a required basis for conformance, adjustment, or verification.\n\t\t\t“System<\/span>” means the grouping of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent weights or measures to form a complex whole.\n\t\t\t“Traceability<\/span>” means an accounting of the relationship of the calibration of a weight or measure<\/span> standard<\/span> or calibrating equipment to a national standard<\/span> maintained or adopted by the National Institute of Standards<\/span> and Technology of the U.S. Department<\/span> of Commerce.\n\t\t\t“Weight or measure<\/span>” means the terms as defined in § 3.2-5600<\/a> and shall also include the term “system<\/span>” as defined in this chapter. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEFINITIONS (\u00a7 3.2-5700)\n\nAs used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Certificate of Conformance” means a document issued by the\nNational Type Evaluation Program of the National Institute of Standards and\nTechnology (NIST) of the U.S. Department of Commerce based on testing in\nparticipating laboratories, said document constituting evidence of conformance\nof a type with the requirements of:\n\n1. 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