Massachusetts · statute · Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 98 · 67 active provisions
Section 1. In this chapter the following words, unless a different meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have the following meanings: ''Deputy'', deputy sealer of weights and measures certified by the director. ''Deputy director'', deputy director of standards in the office of consumer…
Section 2. The avoirdupois pound shall bear to the troy pound the relation of seven thousand to five thousand seven hundred and sixty. The hundredweight shall contain one hundred avoirdupois pounds, and the ton twenty hundredweight.
Section 3. The following weighing and measuring devices now in the custody of the deputy director shall be the sole authorized standards, except as provided in sections four, nine and ten of this chapter, and in section one of chapter ninety-nine, and with the standards supplied under authority of said sections shall b…
Section 4. The state standards shall also include all weighing and measuring devices received from the United States under the resolution of congress approved June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and all other weighing and measuring devices received from the United States as standard weights and measures,…
Section 5. Towns shall keep the following standard weights, measures and balances: A set of avoirdupois weights consisting of fifty, twenty-five, twenty, ten, five, four, two and one pounds, and eight, four, two, one, one half, one quarter, one eighth and one sixteenth ounces; a set of dry measures consisting of one ha…
Section 6. In every town the sealer shall, at the expense of the town, provide therein accessible places for the safe and suitable keeping and preservation of the standards furnished by the commonwealth, which shall be used only as standards. The sealer shall have the care and oversight thereof; shall see that they are…
Section 7. Every such sealer who neglects to provide a suitable place for keeping such standards, or to keep them in good order and repair, or who suffers any of them through his neglect to be lost, damaged or destroyed, shall forfeit five hundred dollars.
Section 8. Vibrating steelyards may be used if each beam and the poises thereof are annually tried, proved and sealed by a sealer or deputy.
Section 9. A clinical standard thermometer supplied by the commonwealth and certified by the national bureau of standards for use by the commonwealth, shall be the state clinical standard thermometer. Nothing in the five following sections shall be construed as adopting or authorizing the adoption of any particular sca…
Section 10. The commonwealth shall also supply additional clinical standard thermometers necessary to carry out sections nine to fourteen, inclusive, to be known as office clinical standards. Such thermometers shall be verified by the deputy director upon their receipt and at least once in each six months thereafter, b…
Section 11. The deputy director shall promulgate tolerances and specifications for clinical thermometers. A correct clinical thermometer shall be one conforming to the standard established as provided in section nine and to specifications promulgated under this section, within such tolerances.
Section 12. The deputy director may at any time inspect and test any clinical thermometer in the possession of any manufacturer or dealer in this commonwealth and for this purpose may remove the same to such place as he may deem most convenient. Whenever he inspects and tests such a thermometer and finds it to be corre…
Section 13. The deputy director shall prescribe rules and regulations governing the manufacture and sale of clinical thermometers and may require representative samples of any clinical thermometer to be submitted by the manufacturer to the deputy director and approved by him. Clinical thermometers shall be marked with…
Section 14. Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of another person, keeps for the purpose of sale, offers or exposes for sale, or sells any clinical thermometer not sealed, marked or certified as correct by the deputy director, or by the manufacturer as provided by the preceding secti…
Section 14A. Glass bottles or jars intended to be used in the sale of lubricating oil shall be made of clear, uncolored glass and shall be manufactured only in the following capacities: one gallon, two quarts, one quart, or one pint, Massachusetts standard liquid measure. Each bottle or jar shall have its capacity clea…
Section 15. Glass bottles or jars used for the sale of milk or cream to the consumer shall be of the capacity of one gallon, a multiple of the gallon, or a binary submultiple of the gallon. Dealers in milk or cream using glass bottles or jars for the distribution of milk or cream to consumers, not sealed by the manufac…
Section 16. Paper or fibre bottles and jars used for the distribution of milk or cream to consumers, and holding, when filled to a level with the bottom of the cap or stopple, not less than eight, sixteen, thirty-two, forty-eight or sixty-four ounces, shall be sealed as measures under section forty-one or fifty-one, or…
Section 17. Whoever re-uses any such paper or fibre bottle or jar for distributing milk, cream or other liquid used for food after such bottle or jar has been once used therefor, shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars.
Section 18. All cans or containers sold for use in the purchase or sale of milk or cream at wholesale shall have their capacity plainly, conspicuously and indelibly marked thereon in terms of liquid quarts. They shall be sealed by the manufacturer thereof, as hereinafter provided, or by a sealer of the town where the u…
Section 19. Whoever, by himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servantor agent of another person, sells any can or container to be used in the purchase or sale of milk or cream at wholesale that is not marked and sealed as required by the preceding section, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars f…
Section 20. All cans, moulds or other containers used in the sale of ice cream or other frozen desserts and/or frozen dessert mix by measure shall be of the capacity of Massachusetts standard liquid measure. Such cans, moulds or other containers shall be sealed, as hereinafter provided, by the manufacturer thereof, or…
Section 21. Sealers shall inspect at least semiannually all cans, moulds or other containers sealed in accordance with the preceding section, and shall make a record of such inspection. If a container has once been sealed as aforesaid, it shall not be necessary to have it sealed again while it is used for the sale of i…
Section 22. Paper or fibre cartons which are used for the sale by measure of viscous or semi-solid commodities or mixtures of solids and liquids shall contain and shall be sold as containing one gill, one half pint, one pint, one quart, two quarts, one gallon, two and one half gallons, three and one half gallons, and m…
Section 23. A sealer or deputy of any city or town or the deputy director or an inspector may, if he so desires, and shall, upon complaint, test the capacity of any container which is used or intended to be used as a measure under sections twenty to twenty-four, inclusive; and if the same does not conform to the law, h…
Section 24. Whoever violates any provision of sections twenty to twenty-three, inclusive, and whoever marks a container or other measure, or procures the same to be marked or has printed thereon or procures to have marked or printed thereon, a mark, number or designation without the approval or authority of the deputy…