                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMMISSIONER TO WEIGH OR MEASURE PACKAGES AND COMMODITIES; PACKAGES AND
COMMODITIES ORDERED OFF SALE (§ 3.2-5611)

The Commissioner shall, on a periodic basis as he deems necessary, weigh or
measure and inspect packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered, or exposed
for sale, sold, or in the process of delivery, to determine whether the same
contain the amounts represented and whether they be kept, offered, or exposed
for sale, or sold, in accordance with law; and when such packages or amounts of
commodities are found not to contain the amounts represented, or are found to be
kept, offered, or exposed for sale in violation of law, the Commissioner may
order them off sale and may so mark or tag them as to show them to be illegal.
In carrying out the provisions of this section, the Commissioner may employ
sampling and testing procedures as adopted by the National Conference on Weights
and Measures, and published in National Institute of Standards and Technology
Handbook 133, &#8220;Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods,&#8221; and
supplements thereto, or in any publication revising, supplementing, or
superseding Handbook 133, for the inspection of packaged commodities in the
Commonwealth, except insofar as modified or rejected by regulation. The
procedures will determine compliance of a given lot of packages on the basis of
the result obtained on a composite sample selected from, and representative of,
such lot. No person shall: (i) sell, keep, offer, or expose for sale, any
package or amount of commodity that has been ordered off sale or marked or
tagged as provided in this section unless and until such package or amount of
commodity has been brought into full compliance with all requirements of this
chapter; or (ii) dispose of any package or amount of commodity that has been
ordered off sale or marked or tagged as provided in this section, and that has
not been brought into compliance with the requirements of this chapter, in any
manner except with the specific approval of the Commissioner.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 3-708.14; 1962, c. 298; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-932; 1993,
c. 604; 2008, c. 860.