§486-105 General testing. (a) Unless otherwise provided by law, the department, through the measurement standards branch, shall inspect and test, to ascertain if they are correct, all measurement standards and measuring devices kept, offered, or exposed for sale, sold or in use in the State. The department may, as often as it deems necessary, inspect and test, to ascertain if they are correct, all measurement standards and measuring devices used in:
Provided that in compliance with a rule of the board, tests may be made on representative samples of the commodities, things, or devices, and the lots of which samples are representative shall be held to be correct or incorrect upon the basis of the results of the inspections and tests on the samples. And, provided that with respect to single-service devices designed to be used only once and to be then discarded or with respect to devices uniformly mass-produced, as by means of a mold or die, and not susceptible of individual adjustment, the inspection and testing requirements of this section will be satisfied when inspections and tests are made on representative samples of the devices, and the lots of which samples are representative shall be held to be correct or incorrect upon the basis of the results of the inspections and tests of the samples.
(b) The department may adopt rules: