Title 30, Title 30

Metric sizes as defined by the department of labor and industry by rule will be permitted if there is compliance with all labeling requirements of the state.

Fractional parts of any unit of weight or measure shall mean like fractional parts of the value of such unit as prescribed or defined in 30-12-101 and 30-12-102, and all contracts concerning the sale of commodities and services shall be construed in accordance with this requireme…

(1) The net weight of a commodity, including raw logs, grain, and quarried rock, transported by any combination of truck, truck tractor, trailer, or semitrailer, as those terms are defined in 61-1-101, may be determined by split weighing the combination if: (a) the vendor and the…

The department has the custody of the state standards of weight and measure and of the other standards and equipment provided for by parts 1 through 5 and shall keep accurate records of them. The department shall enforce the provisions of parts 1 through 5. It shall supervise the…

(1) The department shall adopt from time to time reasonable rules for the enforcement of parts 1 through 5, and the rules have the effect of law. These rules may include: (a) schedules of fees for licensing, testing, and certification; (b) standards of net weight, measure, or cou…

(1) A person may not knowingly operate or use an unlicensed weighing device in trade or commerce for ascertaining the weight of any commodity. (2) A license must be obtained by applying to the department on a form provided by the department. Each license must require at least one…

The department shall from time to time test all weights and measures used in checking the receipt or disbursement of supplies in every institution for the maintenance of which moneys are appropriated by the legislature, reporting its findings in writing to the executive officer o…

(1) When not otherwise provided by law, the department may inspect and test all weights and measures kept, offered, or exposed for sale to determine if they are correct. (2) The department, within a 12-month period or less frequently if in accordance with a schedule issued by it,…

The department shall investigate complaints made to it concerning violations of parts 1 through 5. It shall, upon its own initiative, conduct those investigations it considers appropriate and advisable to develop information on prevailing procedures in commercial quantity determi…

(1) The department shall adopt by rule and implement a schedule to weigh or measure and inspect packages or amounts of commodities kept, offered, exposed for sale, sold, or in the process of delivery to determine whether they contain the amounts represented and whether they are k…

The department may issue stop-use orders, stop-removal orders, and removal orders with respect to weights and measures being or susceptible of being commercially used and issue stop-removal orders and removal orders with respect to packages or amounts or commodities kept, offered…

(1) The department shall approve for use and seal or mark with appropriate devices those weights and measures which it finds upon inspection and test to be "correct" as defined in 30-12-202 and shall reject and mark or tag as "rejected" those weights and measures which it finds, …

In enforcing the provisions of parts 1 through 5 or any other law pertaining to weights and measures, the department may, in the manner provided by law for peace officers, arrest violators, conduct searches and inspections, and seize for use as evidence incorrect or unsealed weig…

(1) Weights and measures that have been rejected under the authority of the department remain subject to the control of the department until suitable repair or disposition of them has been made as required by this section. (2) The owner of rejected weights and measures shall corr…

Subject to the availability of resources and upon payment of a fee commensurate with the costs of inspection, the department may inspect noncommercial weighing and measuring devices. Fees collected under this section must be deposited in the state general fund.

(1) Commodities in liquid form may be sold only by liquid measure or by weight, and, except as otherwise provided in parts 1 through 5, commodities not in liquid form may be sold only by weight, by measure of length or area, or by count. Liquid commodities may be sold by weight a…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in parts 1 through 5, a commodity in package form introduced or delivered for introduction into or received in intrastate commerce, kept for the purpose of sale, or offered or exposed for sale in intrastate commerce shall bear on the outside of th…

In addition to the declarations required by 30-12-302, any commodity in package form, the package being one of a lot containing random weights, measures, or counts of the same commodity and bearing the total selling price of the package, shall bear on the outside of the package a…

A commodity in package form may not be wrapped or in a container made, formed, or filled so as to mislead the purchaser as to the quantity of the contents of the package. The contents of a container may not fall below a reasonable standard of fill which may be prescribed for that…

Whenever a commodity in package form is advertised in any manner and the retail price of the package is stated in the advertisement, there shall be closely and conspicuously associated with such statement of price a declaration of the basic quantity of contents of the package as …

(1) If a commodity is sold on the basis of weight, the net weight of the commodity must be employed and all contracts concerning commodities must be construed on the basis of net weight. (2) The net weight of a commodity being transported by any combination of truck, truck tracto…

Whenever any commodity or service is sold or is offered, exposed, or advertised for sale by weight, measure, or count, the price shall not be misrepresented, nor shall the price be represented in any manner calculated or tending to mislead or deceive an actual or prospective purc…

Except for immediate consumption on the premises where sold or as one of several elements comprising a ready-to-eat meal sold as a unit for consumption elsewhere than on the premises where sold, all meat, meat products, poultry (whole or parts), and all seafood, except shellfish,…

(1) When a vehicle delivers to an individual purchaser a commodity in bulk and the commodity is sold in terms of weight units, the delivery must be accompanied by a duplicate delivery ticket with the following information clearly stated in ink or by means of other indelible marki…

All furnace and stove oil shall be sold by liquid measure or by net weight in accordance with the provisions of 30-12-301. In the case of each delivery of such liquid fuel not in package form and in an amount greater than 10 gallons in the case of sale by liquid measure or 100 po…

Berries and small fruits shall be offered and exposed for sale and sold by weight, or by measure in open containers having capacities of 1/2 dry pint, 1 dry pint, or 1 dry quart.

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) or in Title 82, chapter 15, part 1, the sale, barter, or exchange of gasoline and distillates on a temperature corrected basis or on any basis other than the gross volume of gasoline or distillate actually delivered is void. Any contract i…

A person who hinders or obstructs the department in any way in the performance of its official duties is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $20 or more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 3 months or both fined and imprisoned.

A person who in any way impersonates a person charged with enforcement of parts 1 through 5 by the department, by the use of its seal or a counterfeit of its seal or in any other manner, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $100 or more than…

(1) A person may not: (a) use or possess for the purpose of using for a commercial purpose specified in 30-12-205, sell, offer or expose for sale or hire, or possess for the purpose of selling or hiring an incorrect weight or measure or any device or instrument used to or calcula…

The department may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for, and that court upon hearing and for cause shown may grant, a temporary or permanent injunction restraining a person from violating any provision of parts 1 through 5 of this chapter.

For the purposes of parts 1 through 5, proof of the existence of a weight or measure or a weighing or measuring device in or about any building, enclosure, stand, or vehicle in which or from which is shown that buying or selling is commonly carried on is, in the absence of credib…

Prosecutions for violation of any provision of parts 1 through 5 are declared to be valid and proper, notwithstanding the existence of any other valid general or specific law of this state dealing with matters that may be the same as or similar to those covered by parts 1 through…

The money of account in this state is the dollar, cent, and mill. Public accounts and all proceedings in courts must be kept and had in conformity to this regulation.

The provisions of 30-12-601 do not vitiate or affect any account, charge, or entry originally made or any note, bond, or other instrument expressed in any other money of account; but the same must be reduced to dollars and cents in any action.

As used in this part, the following definitions apply: (1) "Label" has the meaning provided in 50-31-103. (2) "Package" has the meaning provided in 50-31-103.

All producers, growers, and shippers of beef, pork, poultry, or lamb in this state are permitted to label each individual portion, piece, or package of beef, pork, poultry, or lamb in a conspicuous place as legibly, indelibly, and permanently as the nature of the commodity will p…