HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(4)  Sell, or offer or expose for sale, less than the
quantity he represents of any commodity, object, or service;

(5)  Take more than the quantity he represents of any
commodity, object, or service when, as buyer, he furnishes the
weight or measure by means of which the amount of the commodity,
object, or service is determined;

(6)  Keep for sale, or advertise, offer or expose for
sale, or sell any commodity, object, or service in a condition or
manner contrary to this article or rule or regulation issued
under it;

(7)  Use in retail trade, except in the preparation of
medical prescriptions or packages put up in advance of sale, a
weight or measure which is not so positioned that its indications
may be accurately read and the weighing or measuring operations
observed from some position which reasonably may be assumed by a
customer;

(8)  Violate any provision of this title or of any
rule or regulation adopted under this title;

(9)  Manipulate or in any manner render a weight or
measure to a state calculated to deceive or defraud anyone;

(10)  Misrepresent a weight, measurement, or count
affecting any purchase, sale, award, or amounts paid or charged
for a service.

11-302.

(a)  Any weight and measure conforming with the standards of
the United States for primary standards or otherwise obtained by
the State for use as primary standards shall be the State primary
standards of the weights and measures if approved by the National
Bureau of Standards.

(b)  The State primary standards shall be maintained in a
safe and suitable place in the laboratory of the office of the
Secretary and may not be removed from the laboratory, except for
repairs or for calibration.

(c)  The traceability of the State primary standards to the
United States prototype standards kept by the National Bureau of
Standards shall be verified at least once every ten years.

(d)  All secondary standards procured [by a county or a
city] for the enforcement of this title shall be calibrated and
verified as accurate according to the State primary standards.
Traceability to the State primary standards and services of the
laboratory facilities may be made available to any interested
person. The Secretary may adopt rules and regulations
establishing procedures and reasonable fees for this service.