Rhode Island § 47-1-2 - Duties of Director of Labor and Training
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§ 47-1-2. Duties of Director of Labor and Training
R.I. Gen. Laws § 47-1-2
§ 47-1-2. Custody and maintenance of state standards — Testing of standards.
(a) The director of the department of labor and training shall have the exclusive custody and control of the standards so received by the state from the United States, which standards shall be kept in a suitable fireproof place to be provided by the state. The director shall have the oversight of all the standards furnished by the state to the various towns and cities, and shall keep a complete list of the standards and shall see that they are kept in good order and repair. The director shall also keep the standards belonging to the state, furnished by the United States, in perfect order, and shall keep a complete list of the standards, and shall take a receipt for the standards from his or her successor in office.
(b) The director may, if he or she deems it desirable, and shall, upon request by private industry and for law enforcement agencies, test any weights, measures, instruments, or mechanical devices of any kind used or intended to be used in standardizing the production of any manufactured article by controlling processes or by determining the dimensions, proportions, or properties of materials or products, in determining wages or compensation for labor performed, in determining the dimensions or capacity of any tank, can, or other container, or in determining the accuracy of any automatic weighing or measuring device. When any weight, measure, instrument, or mechanical device has been tested and found correct by the director, the director may seal the same. If the director finds it inaccurate, the director may, in his or her discretion, either condemn it or the director may furnish the owner or user with a certificate indicating the amount and direction of any errors found by him or her. This section shall not give to the director or his or her inspectors the power to seal any of the devices which are required by law to be sealed by local sealers.
(c) The director of the department of labor and training shall by regulation establish a fee schedule for services rendered under this section.
History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 167, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 194, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 221, § 3; G.L. 1938,
ch. 407, § 2; impl. am. P.L. 1941, ch. 1069, § 12; G.L. 1956, § 47-1-2; P.L. 1976,
ch. 264, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 340, § 64.
Source: official Rhode Island text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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