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Session Laws, 1969
Volume 692, Page 1055   View pdf image
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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                      1055

gallons for cleaning and other similar purposes, such cans or other
containers shall bear a label with the words "unsafe when exposed to

heat or fire."

COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE FEDERAL
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES LABELING ACT SHALL CONSTI-
TUTE COMPLIANCE WITH THIS SECTION.

157H. Approval by Comptroller of the Treasury.

All materials, fluids or substances offered or exposed for sale, pur-
porting to be substitutes for or improvers of gasoline or special fuels
to be used for power or heating purposes, shall before being sold or
exposed or offered for sale, be submitted to the Comptroller of the
Treasury for examination and inspection and shall receive the ap-
proval of the Comptroller of the Treasury and shall be sold or offered
for sale only when properly labeled with a label, the form and con-
tents of which shall have been approved by the Comptroller of the
Treasury.

157-I. Meter, Pumps, Tanks; Inaccurate measurements. CERTIFI-
CATION OF COMPTROLLER.

THE COMPTROLLER SHALL BY REQUEST OF ANY RE-
TAIL SERVICE STATION DEALER PROVIDE AN ANNUAL
CERTIFICATION THAT ALL OF THE GALLONS OF GASO-
LINE AND SPECIAL FUELS PURCHASED FROM THE SUP-
PLIER HAVE BEEN FULLY REPORTED AND TAX PAID TO
THE COMPTROLLER.

(a) It shall be the duty of the Comptroller of the Treasury to

carefully inspect all pumps and meters through which gasoline and

special fuel products are marketed in the State. All such pumps

found to be giving accurate gallonage measurement and recording
accurate gallonage on the accumulating meters within the tolerance
established by regulations of the Comptroller of the Treasury shall

have the adjusting devices sealed with an official lead and wire seal

applied by an inspector duly authorized by the Comptroller of the

Treasury in such a manner that the adjustment cannot be altered

without breaking the seal. If any pump shall be found to be giving

inaccurate measures in excess of the tolerance established by regu-
lations of the Comptroller of the Treasury, the inspector shall then

and there notify the operator of the pump whether owner or lessee,

to make the necessary adjustments, the inspector to lend his assist-

ance with the standard measure provided for testing such pumps;

after the adjustments shall have been made, the adjusting devices

shall be sealed in the manner provided for those pumps found orig-

inally accurate.

In the event a pump or meter cannot be adjusted the inspector

shall so notify the owner or lessee and shall rend