363.590 Regulations of director -- Specifications for commercial devices.
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(1)The director shall issue from time to time reasonable regulations for the
enforcement of KRS 363.510 to 363.850, which regulations shall have the force and
effect of law. These regulations may include:
(a)Standards of net weight, measure, or count, and reasonable standards of fill
for any commodity in package form;
(b)Rules governing the technical and reporting procedures to be followed and the
report and record forms and marks of approval and rejection to be used by
inspectors of weights and measures in the discharge of their official duties;
(c)Exemptions from the sealing or marking requirements of KRS 363.650 with
respect to weights and measures of the character or size that the sealing or
marking would be inappropriate, impracticable, or damaging to the apparatus
in question;
(d)Rules governing the registration of servicemen and service agencies; and
(e)Rules governing the examination procedure for price verification.
(2)These regulations shall include specifications, tolerances, and other technical
requirements for weights and measures of the character of those specified in KRS
363.610, designed to eliminate from use without prejudice to apparatus that
conforms as closely as practicable to the official standards, those:
(a)That are not accurate;
(b)That are of such construction that they are faulty (that is, that are not
reasonably permanent in their adjustment or will not repeat their indications
correctly); or
(c)That facilitate the perpetration of fraud.
(3)The specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for commercial
weighing and measuring devices, together with amendments to those requirements,
as recommended by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and
published in the most recent editions of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology handbooks and supplements to the handbooks, or in any publication
revising or superseding the handbooks or supplements to the handbooks, shall be
the specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for commercial
weighing and measuring devices of the State of Kentucky, unless modified,
amended, or rejected by a regulation issued by the director. For the purposes of
KRS 363.510 to 363.850, apparatus shall be deemed to be "correct" when it
conforms to all applicable requirements promulgated as specified in this section.
Other apparatus shall be deemed to be "incorrect."