Michigan Compiled Laws Act 283 Of 1964 Weights And Measures Act (290.601 - 290.635)

• Section 290.601 Short Title.
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the “weights and measures act”. History: 1964, Act 283, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964 ;--...
• Section 290.602 Definitions.
  As used in this act: (a) "Automatic checkout system" means an electronic device, computer, or machine that determines the price of a consumer item...
• Section 290.603 Recognized Systems Of Weights And Measures; Use; Recognized Definitions, Tables, And Equivalents Governing Equipment And Transactions.
  The system of weights and measures in customary use in the United States and the metric system of weights and measures are jointly recognized,...
• Section 290.604 State Reference Standards Of Weights And Measures; Storage; Maintenance; Removal From Laboratory; Use.
  The state reference standards shall be maintained traceable to the international system of units through calibrations by a national metrology institute and shall be...
• Section 290.605 Keeping Copies Of State Primary Standards As Secondary Standards; Field Standards And Equipment; Verification.
  In addition to the state primary standards provided for in section 4, this state shall supply at least 1 complete set of copies of...
• Section 290.606 State Director Of Weights And Measures; Deputy; Inspectors.
  The director by virtue of his or her office shall be state director of weights and measures during his or her term of office....
• Section 290.607 Custody And Records Of Standards And Equipment; Enforcement Of Act; General Supervision; Annual Report.
  The director shall: (a) Have the custody of and keep accurate records of the state primary standards of weights and measures and the other...
• Section 290.608 Rules; Exemptions.
  (1) The director may promulgate rules necessary to administer and enforce this act. These rules may include any of the following: (a) Standards of...
• Section 290.609 State Director Of Weights And Measures; Testing Of Standards, Inspections; Testing Of Weights And Measures For State Purchases.
  The director, at least once every 5 years, shall test the standards of weights and measures procured by any city or county for which...
• Section 290.609a Weighing Device; Measuring Device; Certificates Of Conformance; Participating Laboratory.
  (1) A weighing device placed in service after January 1, 1988 shall have valid certificates of conformance before use for commercial or law enforcement...
• Section 290.609b Servicepersons And Agencies; Registration Requirements; Fee; Denial, Suspension, Or Revocation Of Registration; Enforcement Action.
  (1) The director shall issue a registration for servicepersons and service agencies seeking registration under this section in accordance with the standards described in...
• Section 290.610 State Director Of Weights And Measures; Inspecting And Testing Of Weights And Measures Kept For Sale Or Used Commercially; Sampling.
  When not otherwise provided by law, the director may inspect, and test to ascertain if they are correct, all weights and measures kept, offered...
• Section 290.610a Inspection Fee; Fees And Expenses For Special Services; Disposition Of Monies.
  (1) A fee shall not be charged for the regular inspection of any weights and measures or commodity subject to this act. A fee...
• Section 290.610b Fee Schedules.
  (1) The department may annually adjust the schedule of fees for reinspections, voluntary registrations, type evaluations, special weights and measures inspections, and other special...
• Section 290.611 State Director Of Weights And Measures; Investigation Of Complaints; Commercial Transactions.
  The director shall investigate complaints made to him concerning violations of the provisions of this act, and shall, upon his own initiative, conduct such...
• Section 290.612 State Director Of Weights And Measures; Weight, Measurement, Or Inspection Of Packages Of Commodities, Sampling Procedures.
  The director, as often as he deems advisable, shall weigh, measure or inspect packages or amounts of commodities offered or exposed for sale, sold,...
• Section 290.613 State Director Of Weights And Measures; Stop-use Orders, Stop-removal Orders, Removal Orders.
  The director may issue stop-use orders, stop-removal orders or removal orders with respect to weights and measures being or susceptible of being commercially used....
• Section 290.614 State Director Of Weights And Measures; Approval, Rejection, Condemnation, Confiscation.
  The director shall approve for use and seal or mark with appropriate devices such weights and measures as he finds upon inspection or test...
• Section 290.615 State Director Of Weights And Measures; Enforcement, Seizure Without Formal Warrant.
  The director is vested with special powers with respect to the enforcement of this act and any other acts dealing with weights and measures...
• Section 290.616 State Director Of Weights And Measures; Powers Of Deputy Director And Inspectors.
  The powers and duties given to and imposed upon the director by this act are hereby given to and imposed upon the deputy director...
• Section 290.617 Sealer Of Weights And Measures, Deputy Sealers, Supervising Inspectors, City And County Inspectors; Appointment.
  A sealer of weights and measures, and such deputy sealers, supervising inspectors, and city or county inspectors of weights and measures as may be...
• Section 290.618 Sealer Of Weights And Measures, Deputy Sealers, Supervising Inspectors, City And County Inspectors; Jurisdiction; City Or County Ordinances.
  The sealer of a city or a county, and his deputy sealers, supervising inspectors, and city or county inspectors when acting under his instructions...
• Section 290.619 City And County Official Standards; Comparison With State Standards.
  Standards of weights and measures provided by a city or county, after examination and approval by the director, shall be the official standards for...
• Section 290.620 Joint County And City Weights And Measures Jurisdiction; Powers.
  A county and 1 or more cities situated therein, with the consent of the director, may establish a joint weights and measures jurisdiction with...
• Section 290.621 State Director Of Weights And Measures; Concurrent Enforcement Powers.
  The director shall have concurrent authority to enforce the provisions of this act in counties and cities for which sealers of weights and measures...
• Section 290.622 Rejected Or Condemned Weights And Measures; Disposition.
  Weights and measures that have been rejected or condemned and ordered corrected or disposed of under the authority of the director or of a...
• Section 290.623 Commodities, Liquid, Nonliquid, Measurement; Exceptions.
  Commodities in liquid form shall be sold only by liquid measure or by weight, and commodities not in liquid form shall be sold only...
• Section 290.624 Package Labels; Contents; Allowable Variations.
  Except as otherwise provided in this act, any commodity in package form kept for the purpose of sale, or offered or exposed for sale,...
• Section 290.625 Package Labels; Random Weights, Measures Or Counts, Additional Declarations.
  In addition to the declarations required by section 24, any commodity in package form, which package is one of a lot containing random weights,...
• Section 290.626 Packages; Misleading Wrappers.
  Any commodity in package form shall not be so wrapped, nor shall it be in a container so made, formed or filled as to...
• Section 290.627 Packages; Advertisement, Declaration Of Quantity.
  Whenever a commodity in package form is advertised in any manner and the retail price of the package is stated in the advertisement, there...
• Section 290.628 Commodities; Sale By Weight, Net Weight.
  When any commodity is sold on the basis of weight, the net weight of the commodity shall be employed and all contracts concerning commodities...
• Section 290.628a Meat, Meat Products, Poultry And Seafood Sold By Weight; Food Combination Sold By Weight, Quantity Representation By Total Weight Of Product Or Combination.
  Except for immediate consumption on the premises where sold, or as 1 of several elements comprising a ready-to-eat meal sold as a unit for...
• Section 290.628b Commodity Or Service; Sale By Weight, Measure Or Count; Misrepresentation; Display Of Price Including Fraction Of A Cent.
  Whenever any commodity or service is sold, or is offered, exposed or advertised for sale, by weight, measure or count, the price shall not...
• Section 290.628c Commodity Sale; Method; Packaging And Labeling Requirements; Certificate Of Conformance; Compliance Standards; Registration For Servicepersons And Agencies; "Ton" And "Gross Ton" Defined.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided for in this subsection, the method of sale of a commodity sold in Michigan shall conform to the "uniform...
• Section 290.628d Gross Weight Of Vehicle Or Truck Tractor With Multiple Trailers; Determination; Scale; Inapplicability Of Section To Enforcement Of Vehicle Weight Under Michigan Vehicle Code.
  (1) Notwithstanding any requirements adopted under section 28c, the gross weight of a vehicle shall be determined by weighing the vehicle in a single...
• Section 290.628e Sale Of Motor Fuel At Roadside Retail Location; Advertising; Use Of Proprietary Fuel Name; Conditions Regarding Payment By Cash Or Credit Card.
  (1) Beginning July 2, 2013, if motor fuel is sold at a roadside retail location, the roadside advertising shall comply with all of the...
• Section 290.629 Assaulting, Inflicting Bodily Injury Upon, Hindering, Or Obstructing Certain Persons In Performance Of Official Duties As Misdemeanor; Penalties.
  (1) Any person who assaults or inflicts a bodily injury upon, the director, an authorized representative of the director, the deputy director, any inspector,...
• Section 290.630 Impersonation Of Officers.
  Any person who shall impersonate in any way the director, deputy director, any inspector or a sealer or deputy sealer, by the use of...
• Section 290.631 Prohibited Acts; Penalties; Fines; Closure Of Facility; Inspection; Consent Order; Disposition Of Fines Or Recovered Amounts.
  (1) A person who, by himself or herself or by the person's servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of another person,...
• Section 290.631a Consent Agreement; Proceeding; Action By Attorney General; Fines.
  (1) The director, upon determination that a person who, by himself or herself, his or her agent or employee, or as the agent or...
• Section 290.632 Temporary Restraining Order; Preliminary Or Permanent Injunction.
  The director is authorized to apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for a temporary restraining order or a preliminary or permanent injunction restraining...
• Section 290.633 Proof Of Existence Of Weight, Measure Or Device; Presumption.
  Proof of the existence of a weight, measure or a weighing or measuring device in or about any building, enclosure, stand or vehicle in...
• Section 290.634 Repeal.
  Act No. 168 of the Public Acts of 1913, as amended, being sections 290.1 to 290.10 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, is repealed....
• Section 290.635 Rescission Of R 285.559.
  R 285.559 of the Michigan administrative code is rescinded. History: Add. 2012, Act 93, Imd. Eff. Apr. 12, 2012

Last modified: October 10, 2016