Rule 40-15-2-.06 - Liquefied Petroleum Gas Liquid Measuring Devices(1) Application. These regulations, including NBS HANDBOOK 44, entitled "Specifications, Tolerances and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices" and more particularly LPG Liquid Measuring Devices Code, shall apply to devices used for the measurement of liquid petroleum gas in the liquid state, whether such devices are installed in a permanent location or mounted on a vehicle. Insofar as they are clearly appropriate, the requirements and provisions of the Regulations including the NBS Code on Cryogenic Liquid Measuring Devices shall apply to the measurement of other liquids that do not remain in a liquid state at atmospheric pressures and temperatures. Other requirements follow which also apply in commercial operations of this equipment.(2) Automatic Temperature Compensated Equipment Operations. All wholesale commercial LP gas metering equipment in use in the State of Georgia shall be temperature compensated to 60° Fahrenheit (15° Celsius). (a) On a device equipped with an automatic temperature compensating mechanism that will indicate or record only in terms of gallons compensated to 60° F, provision shall be made to facilitate the deactivation of the automatic-temperature compensating mechanism for testing purposes so that the meter may indicate, and record, if it is equipped to record, in terms of uncompensated volume.(b) Provision shall be made for applying security seals in such a manner that an automatic temperature-compensating system cannot be disconnected and that no adjustment may be made externally to the system.(c) Automatic temperature-compensated equipment shall not be deactivated, nor rendered inoperable except for test purposes.(d) All written invoices shall be based on temperature-compensated measurements.(e) The sale and/or delivery of liquefied petroleum gas in tanks with capacities of up to and including 100 pound units, when accompanied with a sales ticket giving the net weight of the LP gas in the tank shall be considered as complying with Rule 40-1 5-3-.07 as to labeling of the container.(3) Repair of In-plant Scales. The owner of an LP gas business, or a full-time employee of that business, shall be permitted to install and/or adjust the portable beam scale or the counter-beam scale which is used to establish the fill weight of any LP gas tank having a capacity of up to 100 pounds net weight. Such individual shall not be required to register under provisions of Rule 40-15-2-.05, Registration of Servicemen and Service Agencies for Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices. Such devices installed or adjusted under the conditions must fully comply with all performance requirements of NBS HANDBOOK 44, as supplemented, and all Georgia Department of Agriculture Rules and Regulations as are applicable.(4) Special Piping Requirements. When a commercial LP gas metering device is mounted on a vehicle, all new or replacement piping shall have as a part of its LP gas circulating system a separate and workable by-pass designed to return to the unit's supply tank any and all LP gas circulated within the system's pipes when its pump is operating and the system's outlet valve is closed. This bypass shall be in addition to the pump's safety by-pass. The system by-pass must be located on the up-steam side of the metering device.(5) Definitions. The terms defined herein have a special and technical meaning when used in the Rules and Regulations for Liquid Petroleum Gas Liquid Measuring Devices: (a) "Liquefied Petroleum Gas" means a product composed predominantly of any of the following hydrocarbons, or mixtures thereof: propane, propylene, butanes (normal butane or isobutane), and butylenes.(b) "Liquefied Petroleum Gas Liquid-Measuring Device" means a mechanical-measuring system of the meter-type designed to measure and deliver liquefied petroleum gas in the liquid state by a definite volume, whether installed in a permanent location or mounted on a vehicle.(c) "Motor Fuel Device" means a stationary metering device primarily used for retail deliveries of liquefied petroleum gas as a motor fuel to the fuel tanks of individual highway vehicle.(d) "Retail Device" means a metering device used for single deliveries of liquefied petroleum gas for domestic or non-resale.(e) "Wholesale Device" means LP gas metering devices other than those used for retail sales.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 40-15-2-.06
O.C.G.A. Sec. 10-2-5 (Ga. L. 1972, p. 654).
Original Rule entitled "Liquefied Petroleum Gas Liquid Measuring Devices" was filed on November 30, 1973; effective December 20, 1973.Amended: Rule repealed and a new Rule of the same title adopted. Filed March 1, 1984; effective March 21, 1984.