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 […]
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, […]