Title 26, Trade Regulation And Practice

[§486-52.5] Price posting by gallon required. The director shall adopt rules to require any retail dispenser of gasoline, whose variator price is set in liters, for every grade of gasoline sold, to post on top or on the face panel of each gasoline pump and on any other pricing ad…

§486-53 Violations; penalties. Any person who commits any of the prohibited acts or omits any of the prescribed acts, herein required or required in any rule adopted by the board shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 486-32. Each day that a violation exists, or is…

§486-54 Investigations. The administrator may, upon the administrator's initiative, investigate suspected violations of this part and shall investigate each complaint registered under this part. The administrator may resort to suitable warnings rather than prosecution for minor o…

[§486-55] General duties and powers. The board may:

§486-56 Adoption of standards and rules. The standards as published by ASTM International and SAE International are adopted except as amended or modified by rule of the board pursuant to chapter 91. The board may also adopt rules on the advertising, labeling, standards for, handl…

§486-6 General powers and duties of board. The board shall have the custody of the state measurement standards including the other standards and equipment provided for by this chapter, and shall keep accurate records of the same. The board shall maintain such standards in a prote…

§486-7 Specific powers and duties of the board; rules. (a) The board shall adopt reasonable rules pursuant to chapter 91 for the enforcement of this chapter. These rules shall have the force and effect of law and shall govern the use or application of measurement standards, measu…

§486-71 Definitions. For the purposes of this part: "Odometer" is an analog or digital measuring device that reflects distance traveled. "Passenger car" means a vehicle with self-contained motive power and seating capacity for up to twelve passengers (excluding the driver), not e…

§486-75 Properly functioning odometer required. No person shall introduce in the State for any purpose whatever, nor operate within the State for any purpose whatever, a passenger car unless it has installed a properly functioning and correctly calibrated odometer. [L 1988, c 156…

§486-77 Odometers; prohibitions; exemptions. (a) It shall be unlawful to: (b) This section shall not preclude the installation, maintenance, repair, or replacement of odometers when such action is necessary to cause compliance with this part. Any such action, however, shall expre…

§486-78 Authority to inspect. The administrator may upon the administrator's own initiative or upon complaint, after properly identifying or making a legitimate effort to identify oneself, enter upon any public or private property, in accordance with law, where odometers may reas…

§486-79 Citation and notice to appear. The administrator may issue to any person violating this part, a citation and notice to appear, at a given time and place, to answer to charges against the person. The form, contents, copy designation and disposition, and appearance dates of…

§486-80 Impoundment of evidence. The administrator may, for a period not to exceed ninety-six hours, impound as evidence any passenger car in which an inaccurate or incorrect or inoperable odometer system is installed or exists. Such period may be extended by order of the court. …

§486-81 Confiscation of evidence. The administrator or any authorized inspector may confiscate as evidence any tools designed to change, manipulate, or otherwise alter the display of an odometer, when the inspector has reason to believe that such tools may be used in an illicit m…

§486-82 Nonscheduled inspection, permissible. Any authorized inspector may, where probable cause exists, require the driver or custodian of a passenger car to move the passenger car to a designated place for inspection of the car or its odometer system. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3]

§486-83 Scheduled inspection. The administrator or any authorized inspector may schedule odometer system inspection for passenger cars at a designated time and place. Failure to move or present the passenger cars as directed or scheduled shall be a violation of this part. [L 1988…

§486-84 Civil action. (a) Any person who violates any requirement imposed under this part shall be liable to the buyer, in an amount equal to the sum of: (b) An action to enforce any liability created under subsection (a) of this section must be brought in a court of competent ju…

§486-87 Penalties. Any person guilty of committing any of the prohibited acts or omitting any of the required acts of this part shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3; am L 1993, c 54, §4]