KRS 363.590: Regulations of director -- Specifications for commercial devices.

(1) The director shall issue from time to time reasonable regulations for the

enforcement of KRS 363.510 to 363.850, which regulations shall have the force and

effect of law. These regulations may include:

(a) Standards of net weight, measure, or count, and re asonable standards of fill

for any commodity in package form;

(b) Rules governing the technical and reporting procedures to be followed and the

report and record forms and marks of approval and rejection to be used by

inspectors of weights and measures in the discharge of their official duties;

(c) Exemptions from the sealing or marking requirements of KRS 363.650 with

respect to weights and measures of the character or size that the sealing or

marking would be inappropriate, impracticable, or damaging to t he apparatus

in question;

(d) Rules governing the registration of servicemen and service agencies; and

(e) Rules governing the examination procedure for price verification.

(2) These regulations shall include specifications, tolerances, and other technical

requirements for weights and measures of the character of those specified in KRS

363.610, designed to eliminate from use without prejudice to apparatus that

conforms as closely as practicable to the official standards, those:

(a) That are not accurate;

(b) That are of such construction that they are faulty (that is, that are not

reasonably permanent in their adjustment or will not repeat their indications

correctly); or

(c) That facilitate the perpetration of fraud.

(3) The specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for commercial

weighing and measuring devices, together with amendments to those requirements,

as recommended by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and

published in the most recent editions of the National Insti tute of Standards and

Technology handbooks and supplements to the handbooks, or in any publication

revising or superseding the handbooks or supplements to the handbooks, shall be

the specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for commerci al

weighing and measuring devices of the State of Kentucky, unless modified,

amended, or rejected by a regulation issued by the director. For the purposes of

KRS 363.510 to 363.850, apparatus shall be deemed to be "correct" when it

conforms to all applicab le requirements promulgated as specified in this section.

Other apparatus shall be deemed to be "incorrect."