Where not otherwise provided by law, the Department of Food and Agriculture has general supervision of the weights and measures and weighing and measuring devices sold or used in the state....

The department shall investigate conditions in the various counties and cities in respect to weights and measures, and to the sale of goods, wares and merchandise, commodities and...

The department shall annually report to the Governor, and shall prior to each regular session report to the Legislature the work under this division, and shall make such recommendations as...

The department shall keep a complete record of all of its acts, a record of prosecutions, and the reports of the various sealers. These records and reports shall be open to the public....

The duty of enforcing this division and carrying out its provisions and requirements is vested in the director and in each sealer acting under the supervision and direction of the director....

(a) The department shall issue instructions and make recommendations to the county sealers, and the instructions and recommendations shall govern the procedure to be followed by these officers...

The director may allocate annually to each county an amount determined by the director not to exceed one-third of the amount expended by the county pursuant to this division during...

The department shall, at a frequency determined by the director, inspect the work of the local sealers and may inspect the weights, measures, balances or any other weighing or measuring devices...

The department shall, at least once annually and as often as requested by the Department of General Services or the executive officer of a state institution, test the scales, weights...

The director may accept the testing and sealing of weighing and measuring devices by another state upon a finding that the requirements of California for testing and sealing such devices have...

The director shall establish tolerances and specifications and other technical requirements for commercial weighing and measuring. In doing so, the director shall adopt, by reference,...

The director, by regulation, may establish a standard or standards or net weight or net measure, or net count of any commodity, except any manufactured commodity consisting of four or more...

The director may arrange for the services of a sealer employed in a county on a collaborative basis and allow reasonable compensation and expenses for the purpose of performing services...

There is in each county the office of county sealer of weights and measures. The county sealer shall be appointed by the board of supervisors, except in chartered counties where...

If from any cause a vacancy occurs in the office of county sealer, the director upon learning of the vacancy shall immediately transmit to the board of supervisors or other appointing power...

The salary and other compensation provided for the county sealer, deputy county sealers and inspectors and clerks shall be paid out of the county treasury in the same manner and at the...

If the position of sealer cannot be filled by the board of supervisors or other appointing power or by the director as provided in Section 12201, then it shall be the duty of the...

(a) The director shall cause to be examined persons desiring to become county sealers, deputy county sealers, or inspectors and shall adopt rules and regulations governing these...

Except as provided in this section, no person shall hereafter be appointed to the office of county sealer, deputy county sealer or inspector unless he or she has a license issued by...

In chartered counties providing for the civil service examination of sealers, deputy sealers, or inspectors the director shall issue a license without further examination upon presentation of...

For the purpose of advising himself on the best and most efficacious methods of performing his duties and conducting his office, every county sealer serving in a county shall attend...

The jurisdiction of a county sealer appointed by a county or the director extends over the entire territorial limits of the county....

The department shall furnish an identification card to each sealer. The identification card shall be a form as prescribed by the department and shall be returned to the department by the...

Every sealer shall: (a) Carefully preserve all copies of the standards of weights and measures in his possession; (b) Keep the copies in a safe and suitable place when not actually in use; ...

Each sealer may, when so directed by the board of supervisors, issue and cause to be distributed to such persons as he may deem proper illustrative material or statements best adapted...

(a) A county sealer may test and certify the accuracy of all parking meters located in the county in which the sealer has jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, parking meters...

(a) Each sealer shall, within his or her county inspect, try and test all weights, scales, beams, measures of any kind, instruments or mechanical devices for weighing or measurements,...

Any county which inspects or tests any weighing or measuring device or instrument used commercially, at the request of the owner or user of such device, when such inspection or testing of the...

Each sealer shall, from time to time, weigh or measure packages, containers, or amounts of commodities sold, or in the process of delivery, in order to determine whether they contain...

The director shall adopt necessary regulations governing the inspection frequency of all commercially used weights, measures and weighing and measuring apparatus in the state. The sealer...

Each sealer may, in the general performance of his duty, without formal warrant, enter or go into or upon, any stand, place, building or premises or stop any vendor, peddler, junk-dealer, driver of...

(a) Upon satisfactory evidence presented to the director that the county sealer of any county is guilty of neglect of duty, incompetence, or misconduct in office, the trial...

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the board of supervisors, by ordinance, may charge an annual device registration fee, not to exceed the county's total cost of...

Number of Charge Per Devices Location 1 to 3 ................... $ 40 4 to 9 ................... $ 80 10 to...

The revenue from any fee charged pursuant to Section 12240 shall be deposited in the general fund of the county and used solely for the activities required by Sections 12210 and 12211....

In addition to providing notice as otherwise required, before adopting an ordinance charging fees pursuant to Section 12240, the board of supervisors shall hold at least one public...

Any costs incurred by the board of supervisors in conducting the required meeting may be recovered from fees charged for the services which were the subject of the meeting....

This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2006, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2006, deletes or...