Sec. 45.75.030. State director and inspectors of weights and measures.
The commissioner of transportation and public facilities is ex officio state director of weights and measures. The director may appoint state inspectors.
Sec. 45.75.040. General powers and duties of director.
The director is the custodian of the state standards of weight and measure and of the other standards and equipment provided for by this chapter. The director shall keep accurate records of the standards and equipment. The director shall enforce this chapter. The director shall supervise the weights and measures offered for sale, sold, or […]
Sec. 45.75.050. Adoption of regulations.
(a) The director shall adopt regulations for the enforcement of this chapter under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act). These have the effect of law. (b) The regulations may include (1) standards of net weight, measure, or count, and reasonable standards of fill, for a commodity in package form; (2) rules governing the technical and reporting […]
Sec. 45.75.060. Office and working standards and equipment.
The state shall supply the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities with a duplicate set of state standards of weight and measure, referred to in this chapter as office standards. The state shall supply field standards and the equipment that is necessary to carry out this chapter. The office standards and field standards shall be […]
Sec. 45.75.070. Testing and inspection of local standards and weights and measures at state-supported institutions.
(a) At least once every five years, the director shall test the standards of weight and measure obtained by a city that has appointed a sealer of weights and measures, and shall approve them if they are correct. The director shall inspect the standards at least once every two years. (b) The director shall from […]
Sec. 45.75.080. General testing.
(a) The director may inspect and test, to ascertain if they are correct, all weights and measures kept, offered, or exposed for sale. The director shall, at least annually and more often as considered necessary, inspect and test, to ascertain if they are correct, all weights and measures commercially used in (1) determining the weight, […]
Sec. 45.75.090. Investigations.
The director shall investigate complaints of violations of this chapter, and shall initiate and conduct the investigations that the director considers appropriate and advisable to develop information on prevailing procedures in commercial quantity determination and on possible violations of this chapter and to promote the general objective of accuracy in the determination and representation of […]
Sec. 45.75.100. Inspection of packages.
(a) The director shall, from time to time, weigh or measure and inspect packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale to determine whether they contain the amounts represented and whether they are kept, offered, or exposed for sale in accordance with law. When packages or amounts of commodities do not contain […]
Sec. 45.75.110. Stop-use, stop-removal, and removal orders.
(a) The director may issue stop-use orders, stop-removal orders, and removal orders for weights and measures used or capable of being used commercially. The director may issue stop-removal orders and removal orders for packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale whenever the director considers it necessary or expedient in enforcing this […]
Sec. 45.75.120. Disposition of correct and incorrect apparatus.
(a) The director shall approve for use and seal or mark with appropriate devices the weights and measures that the director finds upon inspection and test to be correct as provided in AS 45.75.050, and shall reject and mark or tag as “rejected” the weights and measures that the director finds, upon inspection or test, […]
Sec. 45.75.130. Police powers and right of entry and stoppage.
In the enforcement of this chapter and any other law dealing with weights and measures the director has special police powers. The director may arrest, without formal warrant, any person violating the law, and seize for use as evidence, without formal warrant, incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts or packages of commodity, used, […]
Sec. 45.75.131. Issuance of citations.
(a) A peace officer or an employee of the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities who is authorized by the commissioner of transportation and public facilities to enforce this chapter may issue a citation to a person who (1) violates a weight, size, or load limitation adopted by the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities […]
Sec. 45.75.133. Bail forfeiture.
(a) The supreme court shall specify by rule or order those violations that are appropriate for disposition without court appearance, and shall establish a schedule of bail amounts. The maximum bail forfeiture amount for an offense may not exceed the maximum fine specified by law for that offense. If the person who has been cited […]
Sec. 45.75.140. Powers and duties of deputy director and inspector.
The powers and duties of the director specified in AS 45.75.070 – 45.75.130, 45.75.170, and 45.75.380 shall also be exercised by the deputy director and inspectors, when acting under the instructions and at the direction of the director.
Sec. 45.75.150. Appointment of city sealers and deputy sealers of weights and measures.
(a) A city may appoint a sealer of weights and measures, and the deputy sealers of weights and measures it needs. If the city appoints a sealer, it shall obtain at its expense the standards of weights and measures and the additional equipment, for use in the enforcement of this chapter in the city, that […]
Sec. 45.75.160. City sealers and deputy sealers.
The sealer of a city, and a deputy sealer when acting under the instructions and direction of the sealer, have the same powers and shall perform the same duties within the city as those granted to and imposed upon the director by AS 45.75.080 – 45.75.130 and 45.75.380.
Sec. 45.75.170. Concurrent jurisdiction.
In each city having a sealer of weights and measures, the director has concurrent authority to enforce this chapter.
Sec. 45.75.180. Duty of owners of incorrect apparatus.
Weights and measures rejected by the director or a sealer remain subject to the control of the rejecting authority until suitable repair or disposition of them is made as required by this section. The owner of a rejected weight and measure shall correct it within 30 days or a longer period authorized by the rejecting […]