Section 8-16-15

Adoption of rules and regulations; specifications and tolerances to be prescribed.

(a) The State Board of Agriculture and Industries shall have the right and power to adopt and promulgate all reasonable and necessary rules and regulations for the better enforcement of the provisions of law relative to weights and measures and the sale of commodities, things or service by weight or measure.

(b) The board shall prescribe specifications as to the type of make-up and reasonable variations or tolerances for all weights, measures and weighing and measuring devices used, offered, exposed for sale, sold or given away in the state.

(c) Any weight, measure or weighing or measuring device which does not comply with these specifications or does not conform with the state's standards within such tolerances shall be a false and incorrect weight, measure or weighing or measuring device.

(d) The board shall prescribe reasonable rules and regulations for the submission of samples and the examination of type and approval or disapproval of all types of weights or measures or weighing or measuring devices used, offered or exposed for sale or given away in the state.

(Ag. Code 1927, §259; Code 1940, T. 2, §616.)