Title 43 — Title 43: Weights and Measures

Sec. 43-1. Definitions. “Seal”, when used in statutory provisions relating to weights and measures, means a mark of identification which may, in the form of a stamped impression, paster, wafer or certificate, be attached to, or made a part of, any weighing or measuring instrument…

Sec. 43-2. Standards of weights and measures. The weights and measures received from the United States under a resolution of Congress approved June 14, 1836, and such new weights and measures as are received from the United States as standard weights and measures in addition ther…

Sec. 43-3. State Commissioner of Weights and Measures. Inspectors. Registration. Fees. (a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall be state Commissioner of Weights and Measures. The commissioner may appoint inspectors of weights and measures, with all the powers incident to…

Sec. 43-3a. Method of sale of commodities. The Commissioner of Weights and Measures may issue as regulations those specifications, tolerances and regulations for the method of sale of commodities adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures set forth in the National…

Sec. 43-3b. Method of packaging and labeling. The Commissioner of Weights and Measures shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 incorporating by reference the Uniform Packaging and Labeling Regulations, as adopted and as amended from time to time, by the National Con…

Sec. 43-3c. Package checking procedures. The Commissioner of Weights and Measures shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 incorporating by reference the package checking procedures, as adopted and as amended from time to time, by the National Conference on Weights a…

Sec. 43-4. Chief executive municipal officers to procure complete set of standards. The chief executive officer of each municipality required to appoint a sealer under the provisions of this chapter shall procure, at the expense of the municipality, and shall keep, at all times, …

Sec. 43-5. County sealers of weights and measures. Section 43-5 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 6749; 1957, P.A. 76, S. 2; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 99.)

Sec. 43-6. Municipal sealers of weights and measures. There shall be a sealer of weights and measures in each municipality of not less than seventy-five thousand population, according to the most recent figures certified to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management by …

Sec. 43-7. Arrest without warrant. Issuance of orders. Application of condemned tags. The Commissioner of Weights and Measures, his inspectors and the municipal sealers of weights and measures shall each have power to arrest, without warrant, any violator of the laws relating to …

Sec. 43-8. Standards for towns. Duties and salary of inspector. Section 43-8 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 6752; 1969, P.A. 810, S. 3.)

Sec. 43-8a. Regulations for uniform date labeling for foods. Exemption. The Commissioner of Weights and Measures shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, to prescribe uniform date labeling for foods. Dairy foods required to be marked with a last sale date pursuant …

Sec. 43-9. Penalties. (a)(1) Any person (A) who, by himself or by his servant or agent or as the servant or agent of another, offers or exposes for sale, sells or uses in the buying or selling of any commodity or thing or for hire or reward or retains in his possession a false we…

Secs. 43-10 to 43-16. State licenses; town weighers. Sections 43-10 to 43-16, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 609–611, 6753–6756; 1955, S. 2877d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 6; 1959, P.A. 377, S. 1; P.A. 76-223, S. 1, 2; P.A. 77-409, S. 20.) PART III PUBLIC WEIGHMASTERS

Sec. 43-16a. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) “Commissioner” means the state Commissioner of Weights and Measures or the commissioner's designee; (2) “Public weighmaster” means a natural person licensed under the provisions of this chapter; and (3) “Vehicle” means any de…

Sec. 43-16b. Powers of commissioner. Regulations. The commissioner is authorized to enforce the provisions of this chapter and may adopt, from time to time and in accordance with chapter 54, reasonable regulations for the enforcement of this chapter. (P.A. 77-409, S. 2; P.A. 24-1…

Sec. 43-16c. Licenses. Qualifications. Any person who is a resident of the state of Connecticut, is eighteen years of age or older, is of good moral character and has the ability to weigh accurately and make correct weight certificates may apply to the commissioner for a public w…

Sec. 43-16d. License application forms. Requirements. An application for a public weighmaster license shall be made upon a form prescribed by the commissioner, and the applicant shall furnish evidence that the applicant has the qualifications required in section 43-16c. (P.A. 77-…

Sec. 43-16e. Determination of qualifications. The commissioner may adopt rules for determining the qualifications of applicants for a public weighmaster license. The commissioner may pass upon the qualifications of each applicant upon the basis of the information supplied in such…

Sec. 43-16f. Fees. Before the issuance of any public weighmaster license, or any renewal thereof, the applicant shall pay to the commissioner a fee of forty dollars. (P.A. 77-409, S. 6; P.A. 89-251, S. 186, 203; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 387; P.A. 24-142, S. 34.) History: P.A.…

Sec. 43-16g. Limited licenses for state officers or employees. The commissioner may, upon request and without charge, issue a limited public weighmaster license to any qualified officer or employee of a state commission, board, institution or agency, authorizing such officer or e…

Sec. 43-16h. License expiration. Each public weighmaster license shall expire annually. Renewal applications shall be in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe. (P.A. 77-409, S. 8; P.A. 94-36, S. 34, 42; P.A. 24-142, S. 36.) History: P.A. 94-36 deleted reference to the “th…

Sec. 43-16i. Weight certificates. Information required. The weight certificate issued by a public weighmaster shall state the date of issuance, the kind of property, produce, commodity or article weighed, the name of the declared owner or agent of the owner or of the consignee of…

Sec. 43-16j. Gross, tare and net weights. A public weighmaster shall not enter on a weight certificate issued by such public weighmaster any weight values other than those weight values which such public weighmaster has personally determined, and such public weighmaster shall mak…

Sec. 43-16k. Weight determinations. Devices used. When making a weight determination as provided for by this chapter, a public weighmaster shall use a weighing device that is of a type suitable for the weighing of the amount and kind of material to be weighed and that has been te…

Sec. 43-16l. Scales. Size and capacity. A public weighmaster shall not use any scale to weigh a load the value of which exceeds the nominal or rated capacity of the scale. When the gross or tare weight of any vehicle or combination of vehicles is to be determined, the weighing sh…

Sec. 43-16m. Maintenance of records. A public weighmaster shall keep and preserve, for at least one year or such longer period as may be specified in the regulations authorized to be adopted for the enforcement of this chapter, a legible carbon copy of each weight certificate iss…

Sec. 43-16n. Persons permitted to obtain licenses. The following persons shall not be required, but shall be permitted, to obtain a public weighmaster license: (1) A weights and measures officer when acting within the scope of such officer's official duties, (2) a person weighing…

Sec. 43-16o. License required. No person shall assume the title of public weighmaster, or any title of similar import, perform the duties or acts to be performed by a public weighmaster under this chapter, hold such person out as a public weighmaster, issue any weight certificate…

Sec. 43-16p. Suspension or revocation of licenses. The commissioner is authorized to suspend or revoke the license of any public weighmaster (1) when the commissioner is satisfied, after a hearing upon ten days' notice to the licensee, that such licensee has violated any provisio…

Sec. 43-16q. Penalties. (a) Any person who requests a public weighmaster to weigh any property, produce, commodity or article falsely or incorrectly, or who requests a false or incorrect weight certificate, or any person who issues a weight certificate simulating the weight certi…

Sec. 43-17. Pound, hundredweight, ton, barrel, gallon. The avoirdupois pound shall bear to the troy pound the relation of seven thousand to five thousand seven hundred sixty. The hundredweight shall contain one hundred avoirdupois pounds; and the ton, twenty hundredweight. The ba…

Sec. 43-18. Bushel. Charcoal, flour, potatoes. The bushel in struck measure shall contain twenty-one hundred fifty and forty-two hundredths cubic inches, and in heap measure twenty-five hundred sixty-four cubic inches, except that each bushel of charcoal shall contain twenty-seve…

Sec. 43-19. Weight of bushel in various articles. Penalty. Section 43-19 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 6759; 1969, P.A. 90.)

Sec. 43-19a. Sale and advertising of poultry to be by weight. The sale and advertising of dressed poultry and dressed poultry parts at retail shall be made on the basis of weight, except when such poultry or poultry parts are sold for immediate consumption on the premises where s…

Sec. 43-20. Bulk grains, feeds and feedstuffs to be sold by weight. “Bulk grains, feeds and feedstuffs”, as used in this section and section 43-21, means all such substances sold or offered for sale in loose form and delivered to or from a vehicle, truck, compartment or container…

Sec. 43-21. Seals on containers or vehicles. Each container, compartment, truck or vehicle containing grain, feeds or feedstuffs which have been weighed by a public weighmaster shall have a lead-wire seal or seals affixed in such a manner that no loss or delivery of the contents …

Sec. 43-22. Penalty. Any person who violates any provision of section 43-20 or 43-21 shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months. (1957, P.A. 585, S. 3.)

Sec. 43-23. Manufacture, sale and use of milk bottles. Typical glass milk bottles conforming to the requirements of this section may be used and reused as liquid measures in dispensing milk, skimmed milk, buttermilk or cream. Containers made of paper composition or similar substa…

Sec. 43-24. Testing machines used in weighing milk or cream. The Commissioner of Weights and Measures, or his deputy or inspectors at his direction, shall inspect and ascertain the correctness of all weights, scales, beams, instruments or mechanical devices used by any person, fi…

Sec. 43-25. Weight of sand and gravel. A cubic yard of sand shall contain twenty-six hundred pounds, and a cubic yard of gravel, twenty-eight hundred pounds. (1949 Rev., S. 6760.)

Sec. 43-26. Saw logs. The international log rule is adopted as the standard log rule for determining the board foot content of saw logs and all contracts entered into for the purchase and sale of saw logs shall be made on the basis of such standard rule, unless some other method …

Sec. 43-27. Fuel wood: Definitions. Measurers of wood. Sale of fuel wood by cord, volume or weight. Regulations. (a) As used in this section, “fuel wood” means any kindling, logs, boards, timbers, chips or other wood, split or not split, natural or processed, which is advertised,…

Sec. 43-28. Sale of coal and coke by weight. All coal and coke sold, except in accordance with a written agreement with the purchaser otherwise, or offered for sale, in this state, shall be sold or offered for sale by weight. No person shall deliver any coal or coke without first…

Sec. 43-29. Location of scales. Fee for testing scales outside the state. All scales tested and approved by the commissioner shall be located within this state or within an additional adjoining area extending at least five miles, but not more than ten miles, from the state bounda…

Sec. 43-30. Not to apply to foreign or interstate commerce. No provision of section 43-28 or 43-29 shall apply or be construed to apply to foreign or interstate commerce, except to the extent that such application may be effective under the Constitution of the United States and u…

Sec. 43-31. Sale of preheated petroleum products to be by weight. The quantity of all preheated petroleum products sold, offered for sale or delivered at retail shall be determined by weight, such weighing to be done by a public weighmaster licensed by the state of Connecticut, w…

Sec. 43-32. Delivery tickets, requirements. Each vehicle or container of such petroleum products while in transit for delivery shall be accompanied by a delivery ticket and a duplicate original thereof, on which shall be distinctly expressed in ink or other indelible substance (1…

Sec. 43-33. Public weighmasters to secure tare weight. No public weighmaster shall weigh such petroleum products loaded on a vehicle or in a container for transportation and sign a delivery ticket therefor unless the public weighmaster has secured the tare weight of the vehicle o…

Sec. 43-34. Penalty. Any person who, by himself or his employee or agent, or as the employee or agent of another, violates any of the provisions of sections 43-31 to 43-33, inclusive, shall (1) for a first offense, be guilty of a class C misdemeanor, and (2) for any subsequent of…