Louisiana § RS 3:4608 - Rules and regulations; standard for apparatus
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§ RS 3:4608. Rules and regulations; standard for apparatus
A. The commissioner may adopt rules and regulations for the implementation and enforcement of the provisions of this Chapter. The regulations may, by specific reference, adopt all or part of any handbook, standards or procedures issued or established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the American Society for Testing and Materials, their successors, or any other federal or nonprofit agency that prepares and issues nationally recognized standards for commercial weighing and measuring devices. The regulations may include standards of net weight, net measure, or net count for any commodity, product, or article, and specifications and tolerances for all weights, measures, and weighing and measuring devices. These specifications and tolerances shall be designated to eliminate from use, without prejudice to apparatus which conform as closely as practicable to the official standards, those which are not accurate, those which are faulty in that they are not reasonably permanent in their adjustment or will not repeat their indications correctly, and those which facilitate the perpetration of fraud.
B. For purposes of this Chapter, apparatus are correct when they conform to all applicable requirements promulgated as specified in this Section. Other apparatus are incorrect.
C. All rules and regulations shall be adopted in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.
Acts 1992, No. 55, §1; Acts 2003, No. 139, §1, eff. May 28, 2003.
Source: official Louisiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section RS 3:4608 ("Rules and regulations; standard for apparatus") is part of the Louisiana Civil Code, the codified statutory law of Louisiana. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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