Michigan Code — WEIGHTS.MEASURES.AND.STANDARDS
Browse 246 sections in division WEIGHTS.MEASURES.AND.STANDARDS of the Michigan code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 290.21. Legal fruit standards.
- § 290.31. Weight per bushel.
- § 290.41. Stone lime; weight of bushel.
- § 290.71. Apples; weight of bushel.
- § 290.101. Standard barrel for fruits, vegetables and dry commodities other than cranberries.
- § 290.102. Violation; definition; penalty.
- § 290.103. Variations; prosecutions; commodities sold by weight or count.
- § 290.104. Effective date.
- § 290.131. Standard climax baskets for fruits and vegetables.
- § 290.132. Standard containers for small fruits, berries and vegetables.
- § 290.133. Violations of act; penalty; foreign shipments.
- § 290.134. Examination and test; compliance; determination by department.
- § 290.135. Duty of prosecuting attorney.
- § 290.136. Guaranty relieving dealer from prosecution; liability of guarantor.
- § 290.137. Effective date.
- § 290.151. Standard grades for table stock potatoes; sale of unclassified potatoes.
- § 290.152. Potatoes; definitions.
- § 290.153. Unlawful sale or commerce in ungraded potatoes.
- § 290.154. Sale and transportation without required branding on container unlawful; cards; conclusive evidence.
- § 290.155. Inspection of potatoes in storage or in transit.
- § 290.156. Inspection of potatoes in storage or in transit; taking samples, payment.
- § 290.157. Enforcement; right of entry for inspection.
- § 290.158. Enforcement; rules and regulations.
- § 290.159. Intent of act.
- § 290.161. Person, definition; liability for violation by employe.
- § 290.162. Violation of act; misdemeanor, penalty.
- § 290.251. Linseed or flaxseed oil; raw or boiled, requirements; adulterated.
- § 290.252. Linseed or flaxseed oil; name on barrel or container; evidence of violation.
- § 290.253. Linseed or flaxseed oil; compounds, branding; misbranded, definition.
- § 290.254. Enforcement.
- § 290.255. Right of access; samples; duty to prosecute; hindering prohibited.
- § 290.256. Penalty for violation of act.
- § 290.301. Naval stores standards; definitions.
- § 290.302. Standards of quality and purity.
- § 290.303. Prohibited acts.
- § 290.304. Enforcement; rights and duties of commissioner and agents.
- § 290.305. Violation of act; penalty.
- § 290.351. Galvanized wire fence; standard test gauge.
- § 290.352. Galvanized wire fence; galvanizing test.
- § 290.353. Galvanized wire fence; standard grades.
- § 290.354. Galvanized wire fence; label.
- § 290.355. Galvanized wire fence; label, annexing conditions; fee.
- § 290.356. Galvanized wire fence; test, board of agriculture; permit; label contents.
- § 290.357. Galvanized wire fence; unlawful sales, penalty; civil liability.
- § 290.358. Galvanized wire fence; taking samples; tests.
- § 290.359. Tests, accounts, publication; expenses; unexpended balance.
- § 290.360. Effective date.
- § 290.401. Standard log rule; establishment.
- § 290.421. Definitions.
- § 290.422. Potato industry commission; creation; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; vacancies; meetings; chairperson; quorum; conducting business at public meeting; notice of meeting; special meetings; compensation and expenses; handling, use, and disposition of funds; annual fee; gifts, grants, and items of value; books, records, and accounts; availability of documents to public; borrowing money; assessment of outstanding loans; financial report.
- § 290.423. Powers and duties of commission; rules.
- § 290.424. Assessment on growers and shippers; rates; exemption; shipper application and certificate; records; inspection; reports; payment of assessment by shipper; limitation on assessment increase.
- § 290.424a. Exemption of certain information from freedom of information act.
- § 290.425. Failure to pay assessment; penalty.
- § 290.426. Failure to pay assessment or file report; false information; penalty.
- § 290.427. Enforcement; reimbursement for costs; appropriation.
- § 290.428. Referendum; votes; rules; petition to terminate shipper assessments; referendum by mail; conditions for termination of shipper assessments; adoption of assessment increase; public hearing; findings and recommendations; assent to proposal.
- § 290.429. Petition to terminate commission; referendum by mail; conditions for termination of commission.
- § 290.429a. Referendum; vote as to whether commission shall levy assessments and carry out act.
- § 290.430. Repeal.
- § 290.451. Definitions.
- § 290.452. License required; exemptions.
- § 290.453. Application for license; contents; fee; submission of false information; expiration.
- § 290.454. Wholesale potato dealers; display of license, inspection.
- § 290.455. Wholesale potato dealers; identification card; fees.
- § 290.456. Grounds for refusal, suspension, or revocation of license; hearing.
- § 290.457. Records; examination.
- § 290.458. Irrevocable letter of credit or surety bond required; exemptions; falsification of application, statement, or record.
- § 290.459. Surety bond or irrevocable letter of credit generally.
- § 290.460. Default of licensee; filing statement of grower's claim or certified copy of judgment; time.
- § 290.461a. Examination of records; inquiries; seizing assets of licensee; hearing; order; appeal; action against seized assets; distribution to claimants; return of remaining assets to licensee; action for recovery of money.
- § 290.462. Filing claim; time period.
- § 290.464. Waiver.
- § 290.465. Violation of act; misdemeanor, penalty.
- § 290.466. Repeal.
- § 290.531. Liming material; definition; container label, contents; exception.
- § 290.532. Liming material; filing certificate of analysis; representative sample; affidavit; beneficial use by-product.
- § 290.533. Liming material; license fee; records.
- § 290.534. Liming material; annual analysis.
- § 290.535. Surplus from license fees.
- § 290.536. Violation; penalty, damages for misrepresentation.
- § 290.537. Selection of material for analysis; inspection; seizure.
- § 290.538. Director; enforcement of act.
- § 290.551. Definitions.
- § 290.552. Division of state into districts.
- § 290.553. Michigan bean commission; creation; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; ex officio members; reapportionment.
- § 290.554. Michigan bean commission; procedure for appointment of members; meetings; cessation of membership; vacancies; selection and appointment of member at large.
- § 290.555. Michigan bean commission; quorum; compensation and expenses; conducting business at public meeting; notice.
- § 290.556. Michigan bean commission; election of chairman, treasurer, and other officers; appointment and compensation of executive secretary.
- § 290.557. Bean commission; deposit of money received; treasurer's bond; “financial institution” defined.
- § 290.558. Bean commission; body corporate, seal, records as evidence.
- § 290.559. Bean commission; state and employees not liable for acts; disbursements.
- § 290.560. Michigan bean commission; powers and duties generally; prohibitions.
- § 290.561. Enforcement; reimbursement for costs.
- § 290.562. Grower assessment on beans grown and produced.
- § 290.562a. Assessment on beans grown and produced; payment; report; use; research advisory board; referendum.
- § 290.562b. Changing method or amount of assessment; referendum; implementation of proposed change.
- § 290.564. Supplemental assessment for special projects; referendum to determine rate; collection.
- § 290.565. Records of first receiver; preservation; availability; records of grower processing or retailing own production.
- § 290.566. Violation; penalties; prosecution.
- § 290.567. Referendum on continuation of commission functions; referendum on termination of commission; petition; notice; hearings; cessation of operations and transfer of assets; voting; submitting ballot to legislative committees for review.
- § 290.568. Effective date.
- § 290.591. Transfer of renewable fuels commission to department of energy, labor, and economic growth by type III transfer; abolishment of renewable fuels commission.
- § 290.601. Short title.
- § 290.602. Definitions.
- § 290.603. Recognized systems of weights and measures; use; recognized definitions, tables, and equivalents governing equipment and transactions.
- § 290.604. State reference standards of weights and measures; storage; maintenance; removal from laboratory; use.
- § 290.605. Keeping copies of state primary standards as secondary standards; field standards and equipment; verification.
- § 290.606. State director of weights and measures; deputy; inspectors.
- § 290.607. Custody and records of standards and equipment; enforcement of act; general supervision; annual report.
- § 290.608. Rules; exemptions.
- § 290.609. State director of weights and measures; testing of standards, inspections; testing of weights and measures for state purchases.
- § 290.609a. Weighing device; measuring device; certificates of conformance; participating laboratory.
- § 290.609b. Servicepersons and agencies; registration requirements; fee; denial, suspension, or revocation of registration; enforcement action.
- § 290.610. State director of weights and measures; inspecting and testing of weights and measures kept for sale or used commercially; sampling.
- § 290.610a. Inspection fee; fees and expenses for special services; disposition of monies.
- § 290.610b. Fee schedules.
- § 290.611. State director of weights and measures; investigation of complaints; commercial transactions.
- § 290.612. State director of weights and measures; weight, measurement, or inspection of packages of commodities, sampling procedures.
- § 290.613. State director of weights and measures; stop-use orders, stop-removal orders, removal orders.
- § 290.614. State director of weights and measures; approval, rejection, condemnation, confiscation.
- § 290.615. State director of weights and measures; enforcement, seizure without formal warrant.
- § 290.616. State director of weights and measures; powers of deputy director and inspectors.
- § 290.617. Sealer of weights and measures, deputy sealers, supervising inspectors, city and county inspectors; appointment.
- § 290.618. Sealer of weights and measures, deputy sealers, supervising inspectors, city and county inspectors; jurisdiction; city or county ordinances.
- § 290.619. City and county official standards; comparison with state standards.
- § 290.620. Joint county and city weights and measures jurisdiction; powers.
- § 290.621. State director of weights and measures; concurrent enforcement powers.
- § 290.622. Rejected or condemned weights and measures; disposition.
- § 290.623. Commodities, liquid, nonliquid, measurement; exceptions.
- § 290.624. Package labels; contents; allowable variations.
- § 290.625. Package labels; random weights, measures or counts, additional declarations.
- § 290.626. Packages; misleading wrappers.
- § 290.627. Packages; advertisement, declaration of quantity.
- § 290.628. Commodities; sale by weight, net weight.
- § 290.628a. Meat, meat products, poultry and seafood sold by weight; food combination sold by weight, quantity representation by total weight of product or combination.
- § 290.628b. Commodity or service; sale by weight, measure or count; misrepresentation; display of price including fraction of a cent.
- § 290.628c. Commodity sale; method; packaging and labeling requirements; cottage food operation; certificate of conformance; compliance standards; registration for servicepersons and agencies; "ton" and "gross ton" defined; motor vehicle repair facility.
- § 290.628d. Gross weight of vehicle or truck tractor with multiple trailers; determination; scale; inapplicability of section to enforcement of vehicle weight under Michigan vehicle code.
- § 290.628e. Sale of motor fuel at roadside retail location; advertising; use of proprietary fuel name.
- § 290.628f. Pump with scanning device for reading customer payment card; security measure required; notice of noncompliance; failure to make correction; prohibition; definitions.
- § 290.629. Assaulting, inflicting bodily injury upon, hindering, or obstructing certain persons in performance of official duties as misdemeanor; penalties.
- § 290.630. Impersonation of officers.
- § 290.631. Prohibited acts; penalties; fines; closure of facility; inspection; consent order; disposition of fines or recovered amounts.
- § 290.631a. Consent agreement; proceeding; action by attorney general; civil fines.
- § 290.632. Temporary restraining order; preliminary or permanent injunction.
- § 290.633. Proof of existence of weight, measure or device; presumption.
- § 290.634. Repeal.
- § 290.635. Rescission of R 285.559.
- § 290.641. Short title.
- § 290.642. Definitions.
- § 290.643. Establishment of standards by rules.
- § 290.644. Transferring, selling, dispensing, or offering gasoline for sale; posting notice on pump dispensing gasoline; contents and design of notice; exception; rule to contain design for uniform notice; violation; liability; disposition of civil fine; applicability of subsection (1).
- § 290.644a. Testing storage tank at retail outlet to determine water or water-alcohol level; prohibited sales; testing supplies.
- § 290.645. Prohibitions; contents of bill, invoice, or other instrument evidencing delivery of gasoline, diesel fuel, biodiesel, biodiesel blend, or hydrogen fuel; violation; disposition of civil fine.
- § 290.645a. Renewable fuels fund; creation; deposits; investment; funds at close of fiscal year; disbursement; department as administrator; definitions.
- § 290.646. License required; coordination of licensing; expiration and renewal of license; application for license; grounds for suspending, denying, or revoking license; conviction under weights and measures act; effect of suspension, revocation, or denial of license or other licenses; registering blended products; "completed application" defined.
- § 290.647. Inspection, investigation, and testing program; establishment; purpose; monitoring; payment of expenses; consumer hot line; violation; providing documents; authority of director; enforcement powers; transmitting information; rules; implementation of program.
- § 290.648. Gasoline inspection and testing fund; creation; administration; investment of money; use of money and earnings from investment; disposition of civil fines, appropriations, federal money, and other funds.
- § 290.649. Civil action for damage to motor vehicle; costs; other rights to relief not restricted.
- § 290.649a. Rules.
- § 290.649b. Dispensing facility exempt from certain requirements; annual report; records; notice.
- § 290.649d. Maintenance of stage I vapor-recovery system; inspection of systems; repair, modification, or tampering prohibited.
- § 290.649g. Records.
- § 290.649h. Duties of director to implement MCL 290.649a to 290.649h; rejected or condemned equipment; enforcement; temporary restraining order or permanent injunction.
- § 290.649i. Dispensing permit; requirements; fees; issuance of license within certain time period; “completed application” defined.
- § 290.649j. Delivery of gasoline; Stage I vapor-recovery system; applicability of subsection (7).
- § 290.649k. Declaration of emergency.
- § 290.649l. Variance; conditions for granting; fines; disposition.
- § 290.650. Hindering, obstructing, assaulting, or committing bodily injury upon director or authorized representative as misdemeanor; penalty.
- § 290.650a. Violation; administrative fine; hearing; judicial review; action brought by attorney general; payment and disposition of fine, costs, and economic benefit.
- § 290.650b. Conduct as misdemeanor or felony; assessment of costs.
- § 290.650c. Stage I vapor control program; implementation.
- § 290.650d. Areas requiring certain vapor pressure; termination of requirement.
- § 290.651. Agricultural commodities marketing act; short title.
- § 290.652. Definitions.
- § 290.653. Marketing agreements; provisions allowed; provisions required; substantial compliance.
- § 290.654. Inspection and grading; approved inspectors.
- § 290.655. Assessments to defray program and administrative costs; collection; maximum assessment to be specified; collection by processors, distributors, or handlers; disposition; trust fund; complaint; notice of due date; ability to borrow money; assessment for loans and interest.
- § 290.656. Marketing program; temporary suspension, duration.
- § 290.657. Committee; establishment; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; reapportionment of districts; expenses and per diem; duties and responsibilities; conducting business at public meeting; notice of meeting; availability of writings to public; exemption of certain information from freedom of information act.
- § 290.658. Disposition of money or assets collected; expenditures.
- § 290.659. Refunds.
- § 290.660. Petition for program or amendment; notice; public hearing; decision by director; producers.
- § 290.661. Referendum to determine assent of producers and processors.
- § 290.662. Referendum; director to establish procedures for determination of volume.
- § 290.663. Termination of program; petition, hearing, recommendation, referendum.
- § 290.664. Program approved by referendum; duties of director.
- § 290.666. Deposit by applicants of funds for expenses; reimbursement.
- § 290.667. Marketing agreements with producers, handlers and others; effective upon signing.
- § 290.668. Rules and regulations; duty of director.
- § 290.668a. Rescission of R 290.1 to R 290.18.
- § 290.668b. Rescission of R 285.311.
- § 290.669. Action to enforce compliance; injunction; jurisdiction.
- § 290.670. Suspension of statute where marketing program approved; exception.
- § 290.671. Referendum; requirements; exception; time period.
- § 290.672. Interest on unpaid assessment.
- § 290.673. Violations; penalties.
- § 290.674. Venue for prosecution of violation; enforcement; institution of prosecution for violation.
- § 290.691. Deduction and remittance of marketing fees by purchaser of fruits and vegetables; statement.
- § 290.692. Enforcement; complaint; investigation; hearing; powers and duties of hearing officer; judicial order; contempt; rules.
- § 290.693. Order requiring remittance of moneys to designated association; cease and desist order; recovery of costs and expenses; order dismissing complaint; civil penalty.
- § 290.701. Short title.
- § 290.702. Definitions.
- § 290.702a. Excluded sales.
- § 290.703. Administration and implementation of act; rules.
- § 290.704. Voluntary associations; prohibited practices; complaints; orders.
- § 290.705. Enforcement of orders; temporary relief or restraining orders; jurisdiction; objections; findings; additional evidence; review; stay.
- § 290.706. Proposed bargaining unit; determination of appropriateness; criteria.
- § 290.707. Accreditation of association; requirements.
- § 290.708. Request for accreditation; contents; fee; report.
- § 290.709. Request for accreditation; determination by department; amended request; public hearing; notice.
- § 290.710. Request for accreditation; issuance and publication of determination; preliminary declaration; service fees; effective date of accreditation; referendum; denial of accreditation.
- § 290.711. Annual report of accredited association.
- § 290.712. Revocation of accreditation.
- § 290.713. “Bargaining” defined; accredited association as exclusive representative; negotiations; notice.
- § 290.714. Mediation of issues; duties of department; designation of person to act in department's behalf; fee.
- § 290.715. Election not to purchase or sell during marketing period.
- § 290.716. Arbitration; agreements as to agricultural commodities; disputed quantities; offer; claim for relief; determination of reasonableness; joint settlement committee.
- § 290.717. Hearing; notice; duties of chairperson; intervention; evidence; informal proceedings; verbatim record; transcripts; expense; adjournment; conclusion; majority actions and rulings.
- § 290.718. Joint settlement committee; powers; oaths; subpoenas; contempt.
- § 290.719. Joint settlement committee; findings of fact; issuance of award.
- § 290.720. Joint settlement committee; decision; basis.
- § 290.721. Finality of committee's decision; enforcement.
- § 290.722. Disobeying or resisting order; contempt.
- § 290.723. Judicial review of committee awards.
- § 290.724. Mailing copy of contract or award to department.
- § 290.725. Access of department to evidence; refusal to obey subpoena; service of process.
- § 290.726. Antitrust law not violated.
- § 290.741. Transfer of powers and duties of agricultural marketing and bargaining board to department of agriculture by type III transfer; abolishment of agricultural marketing and bargaining board.
- § 290.751. Short title.
- § 290.753. Definitions.
- § 290.755. Ginseng management program; establishment; administration; purpose; ginseng management program fund; payment, deposit, and use of money; rules.
- § 290.757. Inspection; seizure; forfeiture; deposit of proceeds from sale of seized ginseng; inspection fee.
- § 290.758. Ginseng certificate required; prohibited conduct.
- § 290.759. Ginseng plants or plant parts sold for propagation.
- § 290.761. Sale of cultivated ginseng by grower.
- § 290.763. Wild ginseng.
- § 290.765. Grower's license; dealer's license; fee; expiration; requirement.
- § 290.767. Prohibited conduct by dealer.
- § 290.769. Cultivated and wild ginseng submitted for weighing.
- § 290.771. Record of sale.
- § 290.773. Retention of record; availability for inspection.
- § 290.777. Prohibited conduct.
- § 290.779. Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 290.781. Administrative fine; warning in lieu of fine; civil action by attorney general to recover fine.