Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 19 Business Regulations -- Miscellaneous - Chapter 19.94 Weights And Measures

19.94.005 Findings
The legislature finds: (1) The accuracy of weighing and measuring instruments and devices used in commerce in the state of Washington affects every consumer throughout ...

19.94.010 Definitions -- Director may prescribe by rule
(1) Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter and to any rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. ...

19.94.015 Commercial use of instrument or device -- Registration -- Fees
(1) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section for the initial registration of an instrument or device, no weighing or measuring instrument or ...

19.94.150 Standards recognized
The system of weights and measures in customary use in the United States and the metric system of weights and measures are jointly recognized, and ...

19.94.160 State standards
Weights and measures standards that are in conformity with the standards of the United States as have been supplied to the state by the federal ...

19.94.163 Testing by department -- Ensuring enforcement -- Issuance of seal of approval -- Exception
(1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section and RCW 19.94.190(1)(d), the department shall test and inspect each biennium a sufficient number of ...

19.94.165 Commercial instruments or devices to be correct
All weighing or measuring instruments or devices used for commercial purposes within this state shall be correct.[1995 c 355 § 6; 1992 c 237 § ...

19.94.175 Registration -- Inspection and testing -- Fees
(1) Pursuant to RCW 19.94.015, the following annual registration fees shall be charged for each weighing or measuring instrument or device used for commercial purposes ...

19.94.185 Deposit of moneys -- Weights and measures account -- General fund
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, all moneys collected under this chapter shall be payable to the director and placed in ...

19.94.190 Enforcement -- Rules
(1) The director and duly appointed city sealers shall enforce the provisions of this chapter. The director shall adopt rules for enforcing and carrying out ...

19.94.195 Specifications, tolerances, technical requirements -- Adoption -- Hearing -- Notice
(1) The department shall adopt the specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for commercial weighing or measuring instruments or devices, together with amendments thereto, as ...

19.94.205 Correct and incorrect -- Instruments, devices, weights, measures -- When deemed
For the purposes of this chapter, weighing or measuring instruments or devices and weights and measures standards shall be deemed to be "correct" when they ...

19.94.216 Department inspection -- City sealer -- Agencies, institutions -- Fees
The department shall: (1) Biennially inspect and test the secondary weights and measures standards of any city for which the appointment of a city sealer ...

19.94.220 Investigations
In promoting the general objective of ensuring accuracy of weighing or measuring instruments or devices and the proper representation of weights and measures in commercial ...

19.94.230 Inspections and tests to determine conformity to law -- Off sale order -- Marks, tags, stamps
(1) The director or a city sealer may, from time to time, inspect and test packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered, exposed for sale, ...

19.94.240 Stop-use, stop-removal, and removal orders
(1) The director or a city sealer shall have the power to issue stop-use orders, stop-removal orders, and removal orders with respect to weighing or ...

19.94.250 Inspection of instrument or device to determine if correct -- Rejection or seizure -- Confiscation or destruction -- Use of incorrect instrument or device -- Notice
(1) If the director or a city sealer discovers upon inspection that a weighing or measuring instrument or device is "incorrect," but in his or ...

19.94.255 Correction of rejected weights and measures
(1) Weighing or measuring instruments or devices that have been rejected under the authority of the director or a city sealer shall remain subject to ...

19.94.258 Service agent -- Registration certificate
(1) Except as authorized by the department, a service agent who intends to provide the examination that permits a weighing or measuring instrument or device ...

19.94.2582 Service agent -- Registration certificate -- Fee -- Decision -- Denial -- Notice -- Refund
(1) Each request for an official registration certificate shall be in writing, under oath, and on a form prescribed by the department and shall contain ...

19.94.2584 Service agent -- Registration certificate -- Revocation, suspension, refusal to renew -- Appeal
(1) The department shall have the power to revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew the official registration certificate of any service agent for any of ...

19.94.260 Rejection -- Seizure for use as evidence -- Entry of premises -- Search warrant
(1) With respect to the enforcement of this chapter and any other acts dealing with weights and measures that he or she is, or may ...

19.94.265 Grievances -- Procedure -- Notice -- Hearing -- Rules
(1) Any person aggrieved by any official action of the department or a city sealer conferred under this chapter, including but not limited to, "stop-use ...

19.94.280 City sealers and deputies -- Appointment, removal -- Record, report -- Testing of devices and instruments -- Seal of approval
(1) There may be a city sealer in every city and such deputies as may be required by ordinance of each such city to administer ...

19.94.310 City sealers and deputies -- Duties of governing body -- Sealer to have standards comparison made every two years
(1) The governing body of each city for which a city sealer has been appointed as provided for by RCW 19.94.280 shall: (a) Procure at ...

19.94.320 City sealers -- Director -- General oversight powers, concurrent authority -- Powers and duties of chapter are additional
(1) In cities for which city sealers have been appointed as provided for in this chapter, the director shall have general oversight powers over city ...

19.94.325 Service agent -- Inspection and testing of weights and measures -- Seal of approval -- Fees -- Violation -- Penalty
(1) Except as otherwise provided for in this chapter or in any rule adopted under the authority of this chapter, any person who engages in ...

19.94.340 Sale of commodities -- Measurement -- Exceptions -- Rules to assure good practice and accuracy
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, commodities in liquid form shall be sold only by liquid measure or by weight, and, ...

19.94.350 Packaged commodities in intrastate commerce -- Declaration of contents on outside -- Rules
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any commodity in package form introduced or delivered for introduction into or received in intrastate commerce, kept ...

19.94.360 Declaration of price on outside of package
In addition to the declarations required by RCW 19.94.350, any commodity in package form, the package being one of a lot containing random weights, measures ...

19.94.370 Misleading wrappers, containers of packaged commodities -- Standards of fill required
No commodity in package form shall be so wrapped, nor shall it be in a container so made, formed or filled as to mislead the ...

19.94.390 Price not to be misleading, deceiving, misrepresented -- Fractions -- Examination procedure standard -- Department may revise -- Electronic scanner screen visibility
(1) Whenever any commodity or service is sold, or is offered, exposed, or advertised for sale, by weight, measure, or count, the price shall not ...

19.94.400 Meat, fish, poultry to be sold by weight -- Exceptions
Except for immediate consumption on the premises where sold or as one of several elements comprising a meal sold as a unit, for consumption elsewhere ...

19.94.410 Butter, margarine to be sold by weight
Butter, oleomargarine and margarine shall be offered and exposed for sale and sold by weight.[1995 c 355 § 19; 1988 c 63 § 1; 1969 ...

19.94.420 Fluid dairy products to be packaged for retail sale in certain units
All fluid dairy products, including but not limited to whole milk, skimmed milk, cultured milk, sweet cream, sour cream and buttermilk and all fluid imitation ...

19.94.430 Packaged flour to be kept, sold, etc., in certain units
When in package form and when packed, kept, offered, exposed for sale or sold, flour such as, but not limited to, wheat flour, whole wheat ...

19.94.440 Commodities sold in bulk -- Delivery tickets
(1) When a vehicle delivers to an individual purchaser a commodity in bulk, and the commodity is sold in terms of weight units, the delivery ...

19.94.450 Solid fuels to be sold by weight, cubic measure -- Delivery tickets
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, all solid fuels such as, but not limited to, coal, coke, charcoal, broiler chips, pressed ...

19.94.460 Heating oils -- Delivery tickets -- Statements
(1) All stove and furnace oil shall be sold by liquid measure or by weight in accordance with the provisions of RCW 19.94.340. (2) Unless ...

19.94.470 Berries and small fruit
Berries and small fruit shall be offered and exposed for sale and sold by weight, or by measure in open containers having capacities of one-half ...

19.94.480 Fractional units as fractional value
Fractional parts of any unit of weight or measure shall mean like fractional parts of the value of such unit as prescribed in RCW 19.94.150.[1992 ...

19.94.485 Contracts -- Construction
All contracts concerning the sale of commodities and services by weight, measure, or count, will be construed in accordance with the weights and measures adopted ...

19.94.490 Obstruction of director or sealer in performance of duties -- Penalty
Any person who shall hinder or obstruct in any way the director or a city sealer in the performance of his or her official duties ...

19.94.500 Impersonation of director or sealer -- Penalty
Any person who shall impersonate in any way the director or a city sealer, by using an official seal of approval without specific authorization to ...

19.94.505 Gasoline containing alcohol -- Dispensing device label required -- Carbon monoxide nonattainment area -- Penalty
(1) It is unlawful for any dealer, as defined in *RCW 82.36.010, to sell ethanol and/or methanol at one percent, by volume, or greater in ...

19.94.507 Gasoline delivered to service stations -- Invoice required
Persons delivering gasoline to retail service stations shall supply the station with an invoice which shall include the following information: (1) The gross volume of ...

19.94.510 Unlawful practices -- Penalty
(1) Any person who, by himself or herself, by his or her agent or employee, or as the agent or employee of another person, performs ...

19.94.515 Unlawful commercial use of instrument or device -- Penalty
A person who owns a weighing or measuring instrument or device and uses or permits the use of the instrument for commercial purposes in violation ...

19.94.517 Incorrect commercial instrument or device to benefit of owner/operator -- Penalties -- Appeal
(1) Whenever the department or a city sealer tests or inspects a weighing or measuring instrument or device and finds the instrument or device to ...

19.94.520 Injunction against violations
The director is authorized to apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for, and such court upon hearing and for cause shown may grant, a ...

19.94.530 Proof of existence of weighing or measuring instrument or device presumed proof of regular use
For the purposes of this chapter, proof of the existence of a weighing or measuring instrument or device in or about any building, enclosure, stand, ...

19.94.540 Antifreeze products -- Use of aversive agent
(1) Any engine coolant or antifreeze manufactured or distributed in the state of Washington after January 1, 2010, that contains more than ten percent ethylene ...

19.94.542 Antifreeze products -- Aversive agents -- Limitation of liability
(1) A manufacturer, packager, distributor, recycler, or seller of an engine coolant or antifreeze that is required to contain an aversive agent as required by ...

19.94.544 Antifreeze products -- Aversive agents -- Application
The requirements of this section and RCW 19.94.540 and 19.94.542 shall not apply to the sale of a motor vehicle that contains engine coolant or ...

19.94.900 Chapter cumulative and nonexclusive
The provisions of this chapter shall be cumulative and nonexclusive and shall not affect any other remedy available at law.[1969 c 67 § 54.] ...

19.94.910 Severability -- 1969 c 67
If any section or provision of this act shall be adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional, such adjudication shall not affect the validity of the ...

19.94.920 Effective date -- 1992 c 237
This act shall take effect July 1, 1992.[1992 c 237 § 41.] ...