PURPOSE: This rule provides specifications and tolerances for commercial weighing and measuring devices.

Editor's Note: The secretary of state has determined that the publication of this rule in its entirety would be unduly cumbersome or expensive. The entire text of the rule has been filed with the secretary of state. The entire text of the rule may be found at the headquarters of the agency and is available to any interested person at a cost established by state law

The scope of National Bureau of Standards (NBS) Handbook 44, 1985 Edition, is designed as a working tool of the weights and measures official and the equipment manufacturer, installer and repairman. The purpose of these technical requirements is to eliminate from use, without prejudice to apparatus that conforms as closely as practicable to the official standards, all weights and measures, and weighing and measuring devices that are false, that are of such construction that they are faulty or that facilitate the perpetration of fraud.

AUTHORITY: sections 414.110 and 414.151, RSMo 1986. Original rule filed July 27, 1970, effective Aug. 5, 1970. Emergency amendment filed April 16, 1985, effective May 1, 1985, expired July 1, 1985. Amended: Filed April 16, 1985, effective June 27, 1985.