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Published technical specifications and tolerances for commercial weighing and measuring devices apply in the State, unless a regulation modifies or rejects them.
Municipal officers must buy the weight-and-measure standards and related equipment required for enforcement in municipalities that have a sealer appointed, as prescribed by the state sealer, at municipal expense.
This section defines terms used in the subchapter, including wood-related transaction terms, measurement terms, and related roles and documents.
This subchapter does not override or change the fuel wood measurement standards in section 2302, subsection 1.
This section sets allowed methods for measuring wood in wood transactions and adds notice rules for certain tonnage-based harvesting and hauling contracts.
Wood transactions must use accurate, verifiable measurement methods, and parties must not understate measured wood. The section also requires specific tally sheet and stumpage-sheet disclosures.
People transporting wood must follow this section, including trip-ticket and record-of-measurement requirements, unless a stated exception applies.
The state sealer licenses wood measurers/scalers, sets licensing and examination rules and fees, and no one may measure or scale wood without a proper license.
Beginning September 1, 1985, each of the three listed Maine regions must have at least one person licensed to measure and scale wood residing there.
State employees enforcing wood-measurement laws must be examined and licensed under section 2365-A.
If there is a dispute about whether wood was accurately scaled or measured, the aggrieved person may complain to the state sealer.
The state sealer must adopt rules on wood measurement, equipment standards, complaints and investigations, measurement units, tallies or slips, licensing of operators, and other needed administration standards.
Violations of this subchapter or related rules can trigger civil penalties, with a higher maximum for repeat violations, and a private civil damages action is available.
The state sealer must adopt rules for this subchapter within 90 days after this section’s effective date, following the Maine Administrative Procedure Act.
Maine law provides for a State Sealer of Weights and Measures, makes the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry the ex officio state sealer, and creates a Deputy State Sealer and state inspectors of weights and measures.
The state sealer must carry out listed weights-and-measures enforcement and standards functions.
The state sealer may enter commercial premises, issue enforcement orders, seize certain noncompliant weights or commodities, and stop commercial vehicles for inspection.
The state sealer must investigate complaints about violations of this chapter and may also start investigations on the state sealer’s own initiative.
The state sealer must inspect certain commodities and may order noncompliant packages off sale and mark them "illegal."
In certain municipalities, the state sealer has concurrent authority to enforce this chapter.
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