71 Pa. Stat. § 336

Current through Pa Acts 2024-35, 2024-56
Section 336 - Standards (Adm. Code Section 1206)

The Department of Justice shall have the power, and its duty shall be:

(a) To regulate and maintain uniform standards of legal weights and measures in this Commonwealth, to conform with the original standards of weights and measures adopted by the Congress of the United States, and verified by the National Bureau of Standards.
(b) To assist in securing the enforcement of the laws relating to sealers of weights and measures, which are now in force or may hereafter be enacted.
(c) To have custody of the State's standards of weights and measures.
(d) To compare, test, and regulate all weights and measures of all county, city and borough sealers, now in office or hereafter who may be appointed, with the State standards, when presented at the office of the Department for that purpose, and to certify to their correctness by issuing certificates as to their accuracy, bearing the date of examination and approval of the said weight or measure for which the certificate is issued, the signature of the examiner and the official stamp of the Department.
(e) To file annual and other reports received from the local sealers of weights and measures.

71 P.S. § 336

1929, April 9, P.L. 177, art. XII, § 1206. Amended 1941, July 31, P.L. 613, § 1; 1968, Dec. 18, P.L. 1232, No. 390, § 20.