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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63372</law_id><section_number>3.2-5606</section_number><catch_line>Advice and recommendations of National Institute of Standards and Technology; publications of Institute</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Food and Drink; Weights and Measures</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="56">Weights and Measures</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> may be guided in the performance of his duties by the advice and recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In addition to the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Commissioner to weigh or measure packages and commodities; packages and commodities ordered off sale" href="/3.2-5611/">3.2-5611</a> (relating to the Institute&#x2019;s publication Handbook 133), &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Specifications and tolerances for weighing and measuring devices" href="/3.2-5620/">3.2-5620</a> (relating to the Institute&#x2019;s publication, Handbook 44), and &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="How certain commodities to be sold" href="/3.2-5622/">3.2-5622</a> (relating to the Institute&#x2019;s publication, Handbook 130), the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may give official status to any manual of inspection or other publication of that Institute.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 3-708.7, 59-79; 1962, c. 298; 1966, c. 702, &#xA7; 3.1-925; 1993, c. 604; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
