MCL - Act 283 of 1964
AN ACT to regulate and provide standards for weights and measures, and the packaging and advertising of certain commodities; to provide for a state director and other officials and to prescribe their powers and duties; to provide a fee system for certain inspections and tests; to provide penalties for fraud and deception in the use of false weights and measures and other violations; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts.
History: 1964, Act 283, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964
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Am. 1975, Act 217, Imd. Eff. Aug. 26, 1975
| Document | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Section 290.601 | Section | Short title. |
| Section 290.602 | Section | Definitions. |
| Section 290.603 | Section | Recognized systems of weights and measures; use; recognized definitions, tables, and equivalents governing equipment and transactions. |
| Section 290.604 | Section | State reference standards of weights and measures; storage; maintenance; removal from laboratory; use. |
| Section 290.605 | Section | Keeping copies of state primary standards as secondary standards; field standards and equipment; verification. |
| Section 290.606 | Section | State director of weights and measures; deputy; inspectors. |
| Section 290.607 | Section | Custody and records of standards and equipment; enforcement of act; general supervision; annual report. |
| Section 290.608 | Section | Rules; exemptions. |
| Section 290.609 | Section | State director of weights and measures; testing of standards, inspections; testing of weights and measures for state purchases. |
| Section 290.609a | Section | Weighing device; measuring device; certificates of conformance; participating laboratory. |
| Section 290.609b | Section | Servicepersons and agencies; registration requirements; fee; denial, suspension, or revocation of registration; enforcement action. |
| Section 290.610 | Section | State director of weights and measures; inspecting and testing of weights and measures kept for sale or used commercially; sampling. |
| Section 290.610a | Section | Inspection fee; fees and expenses for special services; disposition of monies. |
| Section 290.610b | Section | Fee schedules. |
| Section 290.611 | Section | State director of weights and measures; investigation of complaints; commercial transactions. |
| Section 290.612 | Section | State director of weights and measures; weight, measurement, or inspection of packages of commodities, sampling procedures. |
| Section 290.613 | Section | State director of weights and measures; stop-use orders, stop-removal orders, removal orders. |
| Section 290.614 | Section | State director of weights and measures; approval, rejection, condemnation, confiscation. |
| Section 290.615 | Section | State director of weights and measures; enforcement, seizure without formal warrant. |
| Section 290.616 | Section | State director of weights and measures; powers of deputy director and inspectors. |
| Section 290.617 | Section | Sealer of weights and measures, deputy sealers, supervising inspectors, city and county inspectors; appointment. |
| Section 290.618 | Section | Sealer of weights and measures, deputy sealers, supervising inspectors, city and county inspectors; jurisdiction; city or county ordinances. |
| Section 290.619 | Section | City and county official standards; comparison with state standards. |
| Section 290.620 | Section | Joint county and city weights and measures jurisdiction; powers. |
| Section 290.621 | Section | State director of weights and measures; concurrent enforcement powers. |
| Section 290.622 | Section | Rejected or condemned weights and measures; disposition. |
| Section 290.623 | Section | Commodities, liquid, nonliquid, measurement; exceptions. |
| Section 290.624 | Section | Package labels; contents; allowable variations. |
| Section 290.625 | Section | Package labels; random weights, measures or counts, additional declarations. |
| Section 290.626 | Section | Packages; misleading wrappers. |
| Section 290.627 | Section | Packages; advertisement, declaration of quantity. |
| Section 290.628 | Section | Commodities; sale by weight, net weight. |
| Section 290.628a | Section | Meat, meat products, poultry and seafood sold by weight; food combination sold by weight, quantity representation by total weight of product or combination. |
| Section 290.628b | Section | Commodity or service; sale by weight, measure or count; misrepresentation; display of price including fraction of a cent. |
| Section 290.628c | Section | Commodity sale; method; packaging and labeling requirements; cottage food operation; certificate of conformance; compliance standards; registration for servicepersons and agencies; "ton" and "gross ton" defined; motor vehicle repair facility. |
| Section 290.628d | Section | Gross weight of vehicle or truck tractor with multiple trailers; determination; scale; inapplicability of section to enforcement of vehicle weight under Michigan vehicle code. |
| Section 290.628e | Section | Sale of motor fuel at roadside retail location; advertising; use of proprietary fuel name. |
| Section 290.628f | Section | Pump with scanning device for reading customer payment card; security measure required; notice of noncompliance; failure to make correction; prohibition; definitions. |
| Section 290.629 | Section | Assaulting, inflicting bodily injury upon, hindering, or obstructing certain persons in performance of official duties as misdemeanor; penalties. |
| Section 290.630 | Section | Impersonation of officers. |
| Section 290.631 | Section | Prohibited acts; penalties; fines; closure of facility; inspection; consent order; disposition of fines or recovered amounts. |
| Section 290.631a | Section | Consent agreement; proceeding; action by attorney general; civil fines. |
| Section 290.632 | Section | Temporary restraining order; preliminary or permanent injunction. |
| Section 290.633 | Section | Proof of existence of weight, measure or device; presumption. |
| Section 290.634 | Section | Repeal. |
| Section 290.635 | Section | Rescission of R 285.559. |