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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 13-2047

NOTICES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Schedule for General Inspection and Testing of Weights and Measures

[43 Pa.B. 6524]
[Saturday, November 2, 2013]

 The Department of Agriculture (Department) gives notice of its schedule for the general inspection and testing of commercially used weighing and measuring devices. This schedule supplants and replaces the Schedule for General Inspection and Testing of Weights and Measures that was published at 28 Pa.B. 4800 (September 26, 1998).

 Section 4112 of 3 Pa.C.S. (relating to general testing and inspections) requires that all commercially used weighing and measuring devices be inspected at regular intervals for accuracy. It prescribes specific inspection intervals for some types of weighing and measuring devices and affords the Department discretion to establish the inspection intervals for others. This order presents the inspection intervals for all commercially used weighing and measuring devices in this Commonwealth.

Section 1. 18-Month Maximum Inspection and Testing Interval.

 (a) The Department will (as required by § 4112(b) of the Agriculture Code) inspect the following types of commercially used weighing and measuring devices for accuracy at intervals of no greater than 18 months:

 • Vehicle scales

 • Truck-mounted fuel oil meters

 • Truck-mounted liquid petroleum gas meters

 • Compressed natural gas meters

 • Retail motor fuel dispensers

 (b) The required inspection and testing of vehicle scales, truck-mounted liquid petroleum gas meters and compressed natural gas meters may be conducted by:

 (i) a State Inspector employed by the Department; or

 (ii) a county sealer or city sealer performing the inspection in accordance with a memorandum of understanding with the Department; or

 (iii) a Certified Examiner of Weights and Measures.

 (c) The required inspection and testing of truck-mounted fuel oil meters and retail motor fuel dispensers may be conducted by:

 (i) a State Inspector employed by the Department; or

 (ii) a county sealer or city sealer performing the inspection and testing in accordance with a memorandum of understanding with the Department.

Section 2. 36-Month Maximum Inspection and Testing Interval.

 (a) The Department will (as required by § 4112(c) of the Agriculture Code) inspect the following types of commercially used weighing and measuring devices for accuracy at intervals of no greater than 36 months:

 • Universal Product Code scanning systems

 • Price look up devices

 • All types of commercially used weighing and measuring devices not specifically assigned an 18-month or 60-month maximum inspection and testing interval in Section 1 or Section 3 of this schedule

 (b) The required inspection and testing of any of the weighing and measuring devices described in subsection (a) may be conducted by a State Inspector employed by the Department or by a county sealer or city sealer performing the inspection in accordance with memorandum of understanding with the Department. In addition, if the weighing and measuring devices are small capacity retail computing scales, retail package shipping scales or small platforms scales which weigh items to 1,000 pounds, the required inspection and testing of these devices may also be performed by a Certified Examiner of Weights and Measures.

 (c) A Universal Product Code scanning system or price look up device is exempt from the 36-month maximum inspection and testing interval described in subsection (a) if it is inspected at least annually on an unannounced basis as part of a private certification program which conforms with the examination procedures for price verification as adopted by the National Conference of Weights and Measures.

Section 3. 60-Month Maximum Inspection and Testing Interval.

 If a local government unit, authority organized by a local government unit or person makes use of parking meters, that using entity shall (as required by § 4112(b.2) of the Agriculture Code)—at intervals of not greater than 60 months—inspect and test the parking meters to ascertain if they are correct.

 The local government unit, appropriate authority or person may accept reports of certified parking meter inspectors as sufficient to meet the referenced inspection and testing requirements.

Section 4. Revisions to the Inspection Schedule.

 The Department may revise this inspection schedule from time to time. The revisions will be published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

Section 5. Further Information.

 Further information is available by contacting the Department at Bureau of Ride and Measurement Standards, Department of Agriculture, 2301 North Cameron Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110-9408, (717) 787-9089 or RA-wghts&measures@pa.gov.

 The foregoing Inspection Schedule is effective as of publication.

GEORGE D. GREIG, 
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 13-2047. Filed for public inspection November 1, 2013, 9:00 a.m.]


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