CHAPTER 209

(SB 33)

Specifications and tolerances for weighing and measuring devices,
federal references updated.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  update certain provisions for specifications and tolerances for weighing and measuring devices.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That § 37-21-6 be amended to read as follows:

     37-21-6.   Regulations pursuant to § 37-21-5 may include specifications and tolerances for any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring device of the character of those specified in § 37-21-9. The rules shall prohibit the use of any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring device which is not accurate, which is of such construction that it is not reasonably permanent in its adjustment, which will not repeat its indications correctly or which facilitates the perpetration of fraud. Such specifications and tolerances shall be in conformity with the code of specifications, tolerances, and regulations for commercial weighing and measuring devices issued and recommended by the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the United States Department of Commerce and in effect on January 1, 1999 2005 .

     Signed February 1, 2005

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