California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 2 - Local Administration

• Section 12200.
  There is in each county the office of county sealer of weights and measures. The county sealer shall be appointed by the board of supervisors,...
• Section 12201.
  If from any cause a vacancy occurs in the office of county sealer, the secretary upon learning of the vacancy shall immediately transmit to the...
• Section 12201.1.
  The salary and other compensation provided for the county sealer, deputy county sealers and inspectors and clerks shall be paid out of the county treasury...
• Section 12201.2.
  If the position of sealer cannot be filled by the board of supervisors or other appointing power or by the secretary as provided in Section...
• Section 12202.
  (a) The secretary shall cause to be examined persons desiring to become county sealers, deputy county sealers, or inspectors and shall adopt rules and regulations governing...
• Section 12203.
  Except as provided in this section, no person shall hereafter be appointed to the office of county sealer, deputy county sealer, or inspector unless he...
• Section 12204.
  In chartered counties providing for the civil service examination of sealers, deputy sealers, or inspectors the secretary shall issue a license without further examination upon...
• Section 12205.
  For the purpose of receiving advice on the best and most efficacious methods of performing his or her duties and conducting his or her office,...
• Section 12206.
  The jurisdiction of a county sealer appointed by a county or the secretary extends over the entire territorial limits of the county.(Amended by Stats. 2017,...
• Section 12207.
  The department shall furnish an identification card to each sealer. The identification card shall be a form as prescribed by the department and shall be...
• Section 12209.
  Every sealer shall:(a) Carefully preserve all copies of the standards of weights and measures in his possession;(b) Keep the copies in a safe and suitable place when...
• Section 12209.5.
  Each sealer may, when so directed by the board of supervisors, issue and cause to be distributed to such persons as he may deem proper...
• Section 12209.6.
  (a) A county sealer may test and certify the accuracy of all parking meters located in the county in which the sealer has jurisdiction, including, but...
• Section 12210.
  (a) Each sealer shall, within his or her county inspect, try and test all weights, scales, beams, measures of any kind, instruments or mechanical devices for...
• Section 12210.3.
  (a) A county sealer who possesses the appropriate equipment to perform tests on water submeters shall inspect, test, and certify to the accuracy of a water...
• Section 12210.5.
  (a) Any county which inspects or tests any weighing or measuring device or instrument used commercially, at the request of the owner or user of that...
• Section 12210.7.
  A county sealer shall, within his or her county and upon written request of the owner, user, or operator of the water submeter, authorize the...
• Section 12211.
  Each sealer shall, from time to time, weigh or measure packages, containers, or amounts of commodities sold, or in the process of delivery, in order...
• Section 12212.
  (a) The secretary shall adopt necessary regulations governing the inspection frequency of all commercially used weights, measures, and weighing and measuring apparatus in the state.(b) The sealer...
• Section 12213.
  Each sealer may, in the general performance of his duty, without formal warrant, enter or go into or upon, any stand, place, building or premises...
• Section 12214.
  (a) Upon satisfactory evidence presented to the secretary that the county sealer of any county is guilty of neglect of duty, incompetence, or misconduct in office,...
• Section 12215.
  A county sealer who receives information or evidence indicating that any weighing or measuring device, parking meter, or other installation under the county sealer’s jurisdiction...

Last modified: October 22, 2018