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Agriculture Code § 13.112
On request, the department must test weighing or measuring devices used by a state institution and report the results to the institution’s governing body chairman.
- Inspection
- Measurement devices
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Agriculture Code § 13.113
The department must maintain and protect state standards of weights and measures, inspect and correct certain standards, and keep records; cities must reimburse the state for furnished standards.
- Inspection and certification
- Recordkeeping
- Standards maintenance
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Agriculture Code § 13.114
The department must set specifications and tolerances for commercial weighing or measuring devices used in Texas.
- Measurement standards
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Agriculture Code § 13.115
The department may collect a fee for certain device tests, and it must charge fees for specified metrology laboratory testing under department rules. The section also allows a city to operate a testing agency.
- Inspection fees
- Metrology laboratory
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Agriculture Code § 13.1151
The department may charge a fee to the owner or operator of a weighing or measuring device, under department rule, to recover registration and inspection costs.
- Fees
- Inspection
- Registration
- Weights and measures
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Agriculture Code § 13.117
A person commits an offense if they refuse to let the department inspect, test, or examine a weighing or measuring device they control or possess, when that inspection is required or authorized by this chapter.
- Device inspection
- Weights and measures
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Agriculture Code § 13.118
A person commits an offense by hindering or obstructing department personnel while they perform official duties.
- Compliance
- Operations
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Agriculture Code § 13.119
A person commits an offense if they remove or obliterate a tag or device placed, or required to be placed, by the department on a weighing or measuring device.
- Device registration tags
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Agriculture Code § 13.120
The department may condemn and prohibit sale or distribution of incorrect weighing or measuring devices sold or about to be sold in the state, and knowingly dealing in such devices can be an offense.
- Device compliance
- Weights and measures
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Agriculture Code § 13.121
A person commits an offense by disposing of a condemned weighing or measuring device in a way that violates Sections 13.111 or 13.120.
- Compliance
- Device disposal
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Agriculture Code § 13.122
Sections 13.117 through 13.121 carry a Class C misdemeanor penalty.
- Offences
- Penalties
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Agriculture Code § 13.251
This section defines “public weigher” as a certified business that can issue an official certificate for the accurate weight or measure of a requested commodity.
- Weights and measures
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Agriculture Code § 13.255
A public weigher may not officially weigh a commodity without a certificate of authority, and must submit a fee with the certificate application as set by department rule.
- Certification
- Fees
- Weighing
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Agriculture Code § 13.2555
The department may discipline a public weigher for violating this subchapter or department rules, including revoking, modifying, or suspending the certificate, assessing an administrative penalty, probation, or reprimand.
- Disciplinary action
- Professional licensing
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Agriculture Code § 13.256
Each public weigher must execute a bond under department rules, and an injured person may sue on the bond.
- Bond
- Public weighers
- Weight and measure compliance
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Agriculture Code § 13.257
Public weighers must include specified details on each weight-or-measure certificate and keep a copy of each certificate in a well-bound book.
- Inspection
- Recordkeeping
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Agriculture Code § 13.258
The department must supervise public weighers, adopt enforcement rules, and review a commodity’s certified weight or measure when an interested party applies.
- Regulatory enforcement
- Weights and measures
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Agriculture Code § 13.259
A public weigher who intentionally or knowingly gives a false weight or measure certificate for a commodity commits an offense.
- Certification
- Compliance
- Measurement
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Agriculture Code § 13.260
Issuing an official commodity weight or measure certificate without authority is an offense.
- Certification
- Commodities
- Weights and measures
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Agriculture Code § 13.261
The department must adopt rules for the bond requirements and fees in this subchapter.
- Bond requirements
- Fees
- Licensing
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