                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

THE BOARD MAY ADOPT REGULATIONS (§ 3.2-5607)

A. The Board may adopt regulations for the enforcement of this chapter. These
regulations may include: (i) methods of sale of commodities; (ii) standards of
net weight, measure, or count, and standards of fill, for any commodity in
package form; (iii) standards concerning the sale and exchange of grains and
other agriculture products; (iv) rules governing the technical and reporting
procedures to be followed; and (v) the report and record forms and marks of
approval and rejection to be used by inspectors and by sealers of weights and
measures in the discharge of their official duties. The governing body of any
city or county employing a sealer may provide for the technical and reporting
procedures to be followed, and the report and record forms and marks of approval
and rejection to be used by such sealer within such city or county, unless the
Board, after a hearing and with notice to the governing body of the city or
county involved, finds that such procedures and forms are inadequate to carry
out the purposes of this chapter.

B. Regulations may also include: (i) exemptions from the sealing or marking
requirements of &#xA7; 3.2-5613 for weights and measures of such character or
size that such sealing or marking would be inappropriate, impracticable, or
damaging to the apparatus in question; and (ii) exemptions from the requirements
of &#xA7; 3.2-5609 for classes of weights and measures found to be of such
character that annual retesting is unnecessary to continued accuracy, provided
that such exemptions specify, in a schedule, the frequency of required retests
for classes of devices so exempted.

C. Specifications, tolerances, and regulations for weights and measures of the
character of those specified in &#xA7; 3.2-5609, designed to eliminate from use,
without prejudice to apparatus that conforms as closely as practicable to the
official standards, those that: (i) are inaccurate; (ii) are, or are likely to
be, faulty because their construction is such that their adjustments are
insufficiently permanent or their indications will not repeat correctly; or
(iii) facilitate the perpetration of fraud.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 3-708.8, 59-82; 1962, c. 298; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-926;
1993, c. 604; 2008, c. 860.