Arkansas Code Title 4, Subtitle 2, Chapter 18, Subchapter 3 - Uniform Weights and Measures Law

• § 4-18-301 - Definitions.
  For purposes of this subchapter: (1) "Accurate" means a piece of equipment whose value or performance, including its indications, deliveries, records representations, capacity, or...
• § 4-18-302 - Systems of Weights and Measures.
  The International System of Units (SI) and the system of weights and measures in customary use in the United States are jointly recognized, and...
• § 4-18-303 - Physical Standards.
  Weights and measures that are traceable to the United States prototype standards supplied by the federal government, or approved as being satisfactory by the...
• § 4-18-304 - Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices.
  The specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for commercial, law enforcement, data gathering, and other weighing and measuring devices as adopted by the National...
• § 4-18-305 - Requirements for Packaging and Labeling.
  The Uniform Packaging and Labeling Regulation as adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and published in the National Institute of Standards...
• § 4-18-306 - Requirements for the Method of Sale of Commodities.
  The Uniform Regulation for the Method of Sale of Commodities as adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and published in National...
• § 4-18-307 - Requirements for Unit Pricing.
  The Uniform Unit Pricing Regulation as adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and published in the National Institute of Standards and...
• § 4-18-308 - Requirements for the Registration of Servicepersons and Service Agencies for Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices.
  The Uniform Regulation for the Voluntary Registration of Servicepersons and Service Agencies for Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices as adopted by the National Conference...
• § 4-18-309 - Requirements for Open Dating.
  The Uniform Open Dating Regulation as adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and published in the National Institute of Standards and...
• § 4-18-310 - Requirements for Type Evaluation.
  The Uniform Regulation for National Type Evaluation as adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and published in National Institute of Standards...
• § 4-18-311 - State Division of Weights and Measures.
  There is hereby created a State Division of Weights and Measures located for administrative purposes within the Arkansas Bureau of Standards of the State...
• § 4-18-312 - Powers and Duties of the State Plant Board.
  The State Plant Board shall: (a) Maintain traceability of the state standards to the national standards in the possession of the National Institute of...
• § 4-18-313 - Special Police Powers.
  When necessary for the enforcement of this subchapter or regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, the State Plant Board is: (a) Authorized to enter any commercial...
• § 4-18-314 - Powers and Duties of Local Officials.
  Any weights and measures official appointed for a county or city shall have the duties and powers enumerated in this subchapter, excepting those duties...
• § 4-18-315 - Misrepresentation of Quantity.
  No person shall: (a) sell, offer, or expose for sale a quantity less than the quantity represented, nor (b) take more than the represented...
• § 4-18-316 - Misrepresentation of Pricing.
  No person shall misrepresent the price of any commodity or service sold, offered, exposed, or advertised for sale by weight, measure, or count, nor...
• § 4-18-317 - Method of Sale.
  Except as otherwise provided by the State Plant Board, or by firmly established trade custom and practice: (a) commodities in liquid form shall be...
• § 4-18-318 - Sale From Bulk.
  All bulk sales in which the buyer and seller are not both present to witness the measurement, all bulk deliveries of heating fuel, and...
• § 4-18-319 - Information Required on Packages.
  Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter or by regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, any package, whether a random package or a standard package, kept...
• § 4-18-320 - Declarations of Unit Price on Random Weight Packages.
  In addition to the declarations required by § 4-18-319, any package being one (1) of a lot containing random weights of the same commodity,...
• § 4-18-321 - Advertising Packages for Sale.
  Whenever a packaged commodity is advertised in any manner with the retail price stated, there shall be closely and conspicuously associated with the retail...
• § 4-18-322 - Prohibited Acts.
  (a) No person shall: (1) Use or have in possession for use in commerce any incorrect weight or measure; (2) Sell or offer for...
• § 4-18-323 - Civil Penalties.
  (a) (1) Any person who by himself or herself, by his or her servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of another...
• § 4-18-324 - Criminal Penalties.
  Any person who intentionally commits any of the acts enumerated in § 4-18-322 is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
• § 4-18-325 - Restraining Order and Injunction.
  The Director of the State Plant Board is authorized to apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for a restraining order, or a temporary...
• § 4-18-326 - Presumptive Evidence.
  Whenever there shall exist a weight or measure or weighing or measuring device in or about any place in which or from which buying...
• § 4-18-327 - Regulations to Be Unaffected by Repeal of Prior Enabling Statute.
  The adoption of this subchapter or any of its provisions shall not affect any regulations promulgated pursuant to the authority of any earlier enabling...
• § 4-18-328 - Regulations.
  The Arkansas Bureau of Standards may by regulation adopted pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq., adopt as a regulation...
• § 4-18-329 - Fees for Tests or Inspections.
  (a) The Arkansas Bureau of Standards of the State Plant Board shall collect charges as provided in this section for the testing and certification...
• § 4-18-330 - Fruit and Commodities -- Packing, Selling, Pledging, Etc., With Fraudulent Intent -- Penalty.
  (a) Any person who packs any fruit or other merchantable commodity with the fraudulent intent of misrepresenting the contents, either as to quality or...
• § 4-18-331 - Legal Weight of Bushel of Specific Commodities.
  The legal weight per bushel of the following shall be: (1) Corn, shelled ..................... 56 lbs. (2) Corn in ear, husked ..................... 70 lbs....
• § 4-18-332 - Bushel of Apples -- Lawful Measure.
  (a) A box nine inches (9'') deep, twelve inches (12'') wide, and twenty inches (20'') long constitutes a lawful bushel measure for apples.(b) Any...
• § 4-18-333 - "Cord" Defined.
  A cord shall be defined as containing one hundred twenty-eight cubic feet (128 cu. ft.), and a unit of pulpwood shall be defined as...
• § 4-18-334 - Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards.
  (a) The Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards is appointed by the Governor and shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor.(b) The...
• § 4-18-335 - Staff and Equipment of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards.
  (a) The Arkansas Bureau of Standards shall be composed of a deputy director, state investigators, and technical and clerical personnel of weights and measures...
• § 4-18-336 - State Standards -- Certification.
  (a) After certification for use by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the weights and measures in conformity with federal standards shall be...
• § 4-18-337 - Office and Field Standards -- Verification.
  (a) In addition to the state standards provided under § 4-18-336, the state shall supply at least one (1) complete set of copies of...
• § 4-18-338 - Rules -- Correct and Incorrect Apparatus.
  (a) The Arkansas Bureau of Standards shall issue from time to time reasonable rules for the enforcement of this subchapter.(b) These rules may include:...
• § 4-18-339 - Disposition of Correct and Incorrect Apparatus.
  (a) (1) The Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards shall: (A) Approve for use and seal or mark with appropriate devices, weights and...
• § 4-18-340 - Investigations.
  The Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards shall investigate complaints made to him or her concerning violations of this subchapter and upon his...
• § 4-18-341 - Testing Generally.
  (a) When not otherwise provided by law, the Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards shall have the power to inspect and test to...
• § 4-18-342 - Packages or Amounts of Commodities -- Inspection -- Disposition of Nonconforming Units.
  (a) (1) The Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards shall from time to time weigh or measure and inspect packages or amounts of...
• § 4-18-343 - Display of Price -- Fractions.
  Whenever an advertised, posted, or labeled price per unit of weight, measure, or count includes a fraction of a cent, all elements of the...
• § 4-18-344 - Testing Bulk Meters or Liquefied Petroleum Gas Metering Devices, Pumps, and Scales Used for Commercial Transactions.
  (a) (1) As used in this section, "pump" means a fuel pump that dispenses products used as motor vehicle fuels, including, but not limited...

Last modified: November 15, 2016