Title 51

NRS 581.003 “Correct” defined. “Correct” means in conformance with all applicable requirements of this chapter and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto. (Added to NRS by 1969, 633; A 2003, 2319)

NRS 581.0045 “Division” defined. “Division” means the Division of Measurement Standards of the State Department of Agriculture. (Added to NRS by 2003, 2313; A 2013, 2472; 2021, 103)

NRS 581.0055 “Field reference standards” defined. “Field reference standards” means the physical standards that are traceable to the primary standards through comparisons or by using acceptable laboratory procedures, and that are used in the installation, adjustment, repair or ca…

NRS 581.007 “Net mass” and “net weight” defined. “Net mass” or “net weight” means the mass or weight of a commodity, excluding any materials, substances or items not considered to be part of the commodity. The terms do not include materials, substances or any other items not cons…

NRS 581.010 “Package” defined. 1. “Package” means any commodity, whether in a standard package or random weight package: (a) Enclosed in a container or wrapped in any manner in advance of wholesale or retail sale; or (b) Whose weight or measure has been determined in advance of w…

NRS 581.012 “Primary standards” defined. “Primary standards” means the physical standards of the State of Nevada that serve as the legal reference from which all other standards for weights and measures are derived. (Added to NRS by 2003, 2314)

NRS 581.014 “Random weight package” defined. “Random weight package” means a package that is one package of a lot, shipment or delivery of packages of the same commodity with no fixed pattern of weights. (Added to NRS by 2003, 2314)

NRS 581.016 “Secondary standards” defined. “Secondary standards” means the physical standards that are traceable to the primary standards through comparisons or by using acceptable laboratory procedures, and that are used in the enforcement of statutes and regulations relating to…

NRS 581.018 “Standard package” defined. “Standard package” means a package that is one of a lot, shipment or delivery of packages of the same commodity with declarations of identical net contents, including, without limitation, 1-liter bottles or 12-fluid-ounce cans of carbonated…

NRS 581.019 “Transfer standards” defined. “Transfer standards” means a physical artifact, a static or dynamic measurement device or a reference material that is used for a short period of time in limited environmental and operational conditions to check the accuracy of commercial…

NRS 581.021 “Weight” defined. “Weight” means: 1. Net weight; or 2. If the commodity is sold by drained weight, net drained wet. (Added to NRS by 2003, 2314)

NRS 581.022 “Weights and measures” defined. “Weights and measures” means all weights and measures of every kind, and includes, without limitation, instruments and devices for weighing and measuring, and appliances and accessories associated with such instruments and devices. (Add…

NRS 581.030 Director of State Department of Agriculture ex officio State Sealer of Measurement Standards; enforcement of chapter. The Director of the State Department of Agriculture, as ex officio State Sealer of Measurement Standards, shall enforce the provisions of this chapter…

NRS 581.050 General authority to adopt regulations. 1. The State Sealer of Measurement Standards may: (a) Adopt regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. (b) Ensure that those regulations comply, insofar as practicable, with the specifications, tolerances…

NRS 581.057 Enforcement of chapter: Entry into commercial premises or cannabis establishment; stop-use, hold and removal orders; seizure of property; inspection of vehicles. The State Sealer of Measurement Standards may, if necessary for the enforcement of this chapter and any re…

NRS 581.059 Enforcement of chapter: Authority to obtain restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction. The State Sealer of Measurement Standards may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for a restraining order, temporary or permanent injunction, restraining a per…

NRS 581.065 Duties: Proper use of weights and measures used in commercial services and cannabis establishments; prevention of unfair and deceptive dealing; availability of facilities of Division; promotion of uniformity with laws of other states and federal agencies; ensurance of…

NRS 581.067 Duties: Standards; enforcement; exemptions; investigations; civil penalties; inspections, tests and approval of commercial weights and measures and cannabis weighing and measuring equipment; verification of packaged commodities; prescription of appropriate terms and u…

NRS 581.075 Fees. The State Sealer of Measurement Standards may establish: 1. A schedule of fees for any tests of weighing and measuring devices that the State Sealer of Measurement Standards determines to be necessary. 2. An annual fee for the issuance of a certificate of regist…

NRS 581.103 Registration required. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restricting the professional, occupational and recreational licenses for child support arrea…

NRS 581.1032 Payment of child support: Statement by applicant for certificate of registration; grounds for denial of certificate; duty of State Sealer of Measurement Standards. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to est…

NRS 581.1033 Preliminary determination of whether person’s criminal history will disqualify person from obtaining certificate of registration. 1. The State Sealer of Measurement Standards shall develop and implement a process by which a person with a criminal history may petition…

NRS 581.1034 Suspension of certificate of registration for failure to pay child support or comply with certain subpoenas or warrants; reinstatement of certificate. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish proced…

NRS 581.1036 Application for renewal of certificate of registration to include information relating to state business registration; renewal of certificate prohibited in certain circumstances. 1. In addition to any other requirements set forth in this chapter, an applicant for the…

NRS 581.205 Authority to use transfer standards as temporary measurement references; applicability. Transfer standards may be used as temporary measurement references to check the accuracy of commercial weighing and measuring equipment. A transfer standard used in such a manner d…

NRS 581.225 Rebuttable presumption that field reference standard is regularly used in installation, adjustment, repair or calibration of commercial weighing and measuring equipment. The presence of a field reference standard in the possession of any person who is paid to install,…

NRS 581.304 Requirements for random weight packages and standard packages; exemptions. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any random weight package or standard package kept, offered or exposed for sale, must bear on the outside of the package a definite, plain and c…

NRS 581.306 Additional requirements for random weight packages of same commodity. In addition to the declarations required by NRS 581.304, each random weight package of the same commodity must, at the time such packages are offered or exposed for sale at retail, bear on the outsi…

NRS 581.315 Requirements for packaged commodity that is advertised with retail price stated. If a packaged commodity is advertised in any manner with the retail price stated, a declaration of quantity as required by this chapter or any regulation adopted pursuant thereto must app…

NRS 581.320 Fluid dairy products: Packages for retail sale; marking of containers; exemption. 1. All fluid dairy products must be packaged for retail sale in: (a) Units of 1 gill or less, one-half liquid pint, 10 fluid ounces, 1 liquid pint, 1 liquid quart, one-half gallon, 3 liq…

NRS 581.365 Standards for determining quantity of commodities in liquid form and commodities not in liquid form; provision of information necessary to make price and quantity comparisons. 1. Except as otherwise provided by regulation or order of the State Sealer of Measurement St…

NRS 581.375 Misrepresentation of quantity prohibited. A person shall not: 1. Sell or offer or expose for sale a quantity less than the quantity represented; 2. Take more than the quantity represented when, as a buyer, the person furnishes the weight or measure by which the quanti…

NRS 581.377 Misrepresentation of price prohibited. A person shall not: 1. Misrepresent the price of any commodity or service sold, or offered, exposed or advertised for sale, by weight, measure or count; or 2. Misrepresent the price of such a commodity or service in any manner ca…

NRS 581.385 Delivery ticket required for certain bulk sales and bulk deliveries; contents of delivery ticket. All bulk sales in which the buyer and seller are not both present to witness the measurement, all bulk deliveries of heating fuel and all other bulk sales specified by re…

NRS 581.395 Rebuttable presumption that weight or measure or weighing or measuring device is regularly used for commercial business purposes. The presence of a weight or measure or weighing or measuring device in or about any place in which or from which buying or selling is comm…

NRS 581.415 Prohibited acts; civil penalty. 1. A person shall not: (a) Use in commerce, or have in his or her possession for use in commerce or in a cannabis establishment, any incorrect weight or measure; (b) Sell or offer for sale for use in commerce or for use in a cannabis es…

NRS 581.417 Civil penalties: Administrative appeal; judicial review; payment; civil action for recovery; deposit and use of money. 1. A person subject to a civil penalty may request an administrative hearing within 10 days after receipt of the notice of the civil penalty. The Sta…

NRS 581.445 Criminal penalties. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a person, or any officer, agent or employee thereof, who willfully violates any provision of NRS 581.415: (a) For the first offense, shall be given a warning. (b) For the second offense, is guilty of…