Minnesota · statute · Minn. Stat. ch. 239 · 38 active provisions
The Weights and Measures Division, referred to in this chapter as the division, is created under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce. The division has supervision and control over all weights, weighing devices, and measures in the state.
Subdivision 1. Responsibilities. The division shall: (1) ensure that weights and measures in commercial service within the state are suitable for their intended use, properly installed, accurate, and properly maintained by their owners or users; (2) prevent unfair or deceptive dealing by weight or measure in a commodit…
The department shall appoint in accordance with chapter 43A, a director of weights and measures and such deputies and other employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
Subdivision 1. Scope. The terms used in this chapter have the meanings given them in this section. Subd. 1a. Advanced biofuel. "Advanced biofuel" has the meaning given in Public Law 110-140, title 2, subtitle A, section 201. Subd. 2. Airport. "Airport" has the meaning given it in section 360.013, subdivision 39. Subd.…
The department shall prescribe and adopt such rules as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, including but not limited to the adoption of definitions of basic units of weights and measures, tables of weights and measures, and weights and measures equivalents to govern weighing and measuring…
The division shall supervise and inspect all track scales, and may direct any carrier to transport, move, and switch to any track scale free of charge any car used in the inspection and testing of scales. The division shall require the installation and maintenance of track scales at terminals, warehouses, and at other…
When necessary to enforce this chapter or rules adopted under the authority granted by section 239.06, the director is: (1) empowered to seize for use as evidence and without formal warrant, any false weight, measure, weighing or measuring device, package, or commodity found to be used, retained, or offered or exposed…
The method of sale for a commodity must provide an accurate and adequate quantity of information that will allow the buyer to make price and quantity comparisons.
(a) Bulk sales of commodities, when the buyer and seller are not both present to witness the measurement, must be accompanied by a delivery ticket containing the following information: (1) the name and address of the person who weighed or measured the commodity; (2) the date delivered; (3) the quantity delivered; (4) t…
(a) A package offered, exposed, or held for sale must bear a clear and conspicuous declaration of: (1) the identity of the commodity in the package, unless the commodity can be easily identified through the wrapper or container; (2) the net quantity in terms of weight, measure, or count; (3) the name and address of the…
When a packaged commodity is advertised with its retail price, the quantity declaration that appears on the package must also appear in the advertisement.
Subdivision 1. Light capacity scales; retail establishments. The director shall inspect light capacity scales in retail establishments such as grocery stores, other retail food establishments, or hardware stores, not more often than once every 36 months except when (1) the owner requests an inspection, (2) when the sca…
Subdivision 1. Fee setting and cost recovery. The department shall recover the amount appropriated to the weights and measures program through revenue from two separate fee systems under subdivisions 2 and 3, and according to the fee-setting and cost-recovery requirements in subdivisions 4, 5, and 6. Subd. 2. Weights a…
Any person who shall offer or expose for sale, sell or use, or possess a false scale, weight or measure, or weighing or measuring device, or any weight or measure or weighing or measuring device which has not been sealed as provided by sections 239.01 to 239.10, or use the same in the buying or selling of any commodity…
Any person hindering, impeding, or restricting in any way any employee of the division while in the performance of official duty shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
In contracts for the sale of any of the following articles, the term "bushel" shall mean the number of pounds avoirdupois herein stated: corn, in ear, 70; beans (except lima beans, scarlet runner pole beans, white runner pole beans and broad windsor beans), smooth peas, wheat, clover seed, Irish potatoes and alfalfa, 6…
In all contracts for sale of wood the term "cord" shall mean 128 cubic feet of wood, bark, and air, if cut in four-foot lengths; and if the sale is of "sawed wood," a cord shall mean 110 cubic feet when ranked, or 160 cubic feet when thrown irregularly or loosely into a conveyance for delivery to the purchaser; and if…
In all contracts for the sale of coal, charcoal, and ice, the term "ton" shall mean 2,000 pounds. A sale of coal and charcoal, except by weight, is hereby prohibited.
Every person who shall buy, sell, or dispose of any goods or commodities by an unsealed weight, measure, or scale kept by the person, or shall knowingly use any such weight, measure, or scale which has been sealed, but is incorrect, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; but no contract of sale shall thereby be rendered voi…
Whoever in selling gives a lower number or, in buying, takes a greater number of pounds or cubic feet to the bushel, barrel, ton, or cord, as the case may be, than is allowed and provided in sections 239.32 and 239.33, or in selling, gives a lower number, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
All fines collected under sections 239.32, 239.33, and 239.38 shall be paid to the county treasurer for the benefit of the school fund of the county where the action is brought.
Anhydrous ammonia may be sold at the retail level to any buyer using a temperature correctable liquid meter.
Subdivision 1. Inspection requirements; blending exemptions. The director shall: (1) take samples, free of charge, of petroleum products wherever processed, blended, held, stored, imported, transferred, offered for sale or use, or sold in Minnesota, limiting each sample to one-half gallon; (2) inspect and test petroleu…
Subdivision 1. Dispenser requirements, automatic price computation. A retail petroleum dispenser that automatically computes the total price of each sale must have a unit price indicator on the face of the computer mechanism that clearly displays the price per gallon or price per liter, including all taxes. The unit pr…
(a) The director must ensure that signs having 12-point font or greater are affixed on retail petroleum dispensers as follows: (1) for regular or premium gasoline, a sign that reads: "The price for each gallon of gasoline includes the current state gasoline tax of 28.5 cents per gallon and federal gasoline tax of 18.4…