MCL - Act 283 of 1964


WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT

Act 283 of 1964

AN ACT to regulate and provide standards for weights and measures, and the packaging and advertising of certain commodities; to provide for a state director and other officials and to prescribe their powers and duties; to provide a fee system for certain inspections and tests; to provide penalties for fraud and deception in the use of false weights and measures and other violations; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts.


History: 1964, Act 283, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964 ;-- Am. 1975, Act 217, Imd. Eff. Aug. 26, 1975




The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Document Type Description
Section 290.601 Section Short title.
Section 290.602 Section Definitions.
Section 290.603 Section Recognized systems of weights and measures; use; recognized definitions, tables, and equivalents governing equipment and transactions.
Section 290.604 Section State reference standards of weights and measures; storage; maintenance; removal from laboratory; use.
Section 290.605 Section Keeping copies of state primary standards as secondary standards; field standards and equipment; verification.
Section 290.606 Section State director of weights and measures; deputy; inspectors.
Section 290.607 Section Custody and records of standards and equipment; enforcement of act; general supervision; annual report.
Section 290.608 Section Rules; exemptions.
Section 290.609 Section State director of weights and measures; testing of standards, inspections; testing of weights and measures for state purchases.
Section 290.609a Section Weighing device; measuring device; certificates of conformance; participating laboratory.
Section 290.609b Section Servicepersons and agencies; registration requirements; fee; denial, suspension, or revocation of registration; enforcement action.
Section 290.610 Section State director of weights and measures; inspecting and testing of weights and measures kept for sale or used commercially; sampling.
Section 290.610a Section Inspection fee; fees and expenses for special services; disposition of monies.
Section 290.610b Section Fee schedules.
Section 290.611 Section State director of weights and measures; investigation of complaints; commercial transactions.
Section 290.612 Section State director of weights and measures; weight, measurement, or inspection of packages of commodities, sampling procedures.
Section 290.613 Section State director of weights and measures; stop-use orders, stop-removal orders, removal orders.
Section 290.614 Section State director of weights and measures; approval, rejection, condemnation, confiscation.
Section 290.615 Section State director of weights and measures; enforcement, seizure without formal warrant.
Section 290.616 Section State director of weights and measures; powers of deputy director and inspectors.
Section 290.617 Section Sealer of weights and measures, deputy sealers, supervising inspectors, city and county inspectors; appointment.
Section 290.618 Section Sealer of weights and measures, deputy sealers, supervising inspectors, city and county inspectors; jurisdiction; city or county ordinances.
Section 290.619 Section City and county official standards; comparison with state standards.
Section 290.620 Section Joint county and city weights and measures jurisdiction; powers.
Section 290.621 Section State director of weights and measures; concurrent enforcement powers.
Section 290.622 Section Rejected or condemned weights and measures; disposition.
Section 290.623 Section Commodities, liquid, nonliquid, measurement; exceptions.
Section 290.624 Section Package labels; contents; allowable variations.
Section 290.625 Section Package labels; random weights, measures or counts, additional declarations.
Section 290.626 Section Packages; misleading wrappers.
Section 290.627 Section Packages; advertisement, declaration of quantity.
Section 290.628 Section Commodities; sale by weight, net weight.
Section 290.628a Section Meat, meat products, poultry and seafood sold by weight; food combination sold by weight, quantity representation by total weight of product or combination.
Section 290.628b Section Commodity or service; sale by weight, measure or count; misrepresentation; display of price including fraction of a cent.
Section 290.628c Section 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.
Section 290.628d Section Gross weight of vehicle or truck tractor with multiple trailers; determination; scale; inapplicability of section to enforcement of vehicle weight under Michigan vehicle code.
Section 290.628e Section Sale of motor fuel at roadside retail location; advertising; use of proprietary fuel name.
Section 290.628f Section Pump with scanning device for reading customer payment card; security measure required; notice of noncompliance; failure to make correction; prohibition; definitions.
Section 290.629 Section Assaulting, inflicting bodily injury upon, hindering, or obstructing certain persons in performance of official duties as misdemeanor; penalties.
Section 290.630 Section Impersonation of officers.
Section 290.631 Section Prohibited acts; penalties; fines; closure of facility; inspection; consent order; disposition of fines or recovered amounts.
Section 290.631a Section Consent agreement; proceeding; action by attorney general; civil fines.
Section 290.632 Section Temporary restraining order; preliminary or permanent injunction.
Section 290.633 Section Proof of existence of weight, measure or device; presumption.
Section 290.634 Section Repeal.
Section 290.635 Section Rescission of R 285.559.