01-001 C.M.R. ch. 383, § 3 - OFF-SITE MEASUREMENT: PRELIMINARY RECORD WHERE PAYMENT IS MADE FOR SERVICES HARVESTING WOOD

A. Preliminary Record Required. When wood will be measured after it is removed from the harvesting area, persons requiring services harvesting wood shall make a cumulative daily record of all loads of wood removed from the harvesting area, numbering in consecutive order each load removed.

B. Responsibility for Preliminary Record. The person requiring the service is responsible for preparing and making the preliminary record available. This responsibility may be carried out by another person provided that other person is in a position to maintain a daily cumulative record of all loads of wood hauled. Preparation of the preliminary record may not be delegated to persons who are not in a position to maintain a daily cumulative record of all loads of wood hauled.

NOTE: For example, persons who ordinarily prepare the preliminary record are the logging service contractor, or the crane operator who loads the wood.

C. Contents of Preliminary Record. The record must include the following information for each load of wood removed:

1. the date;

2. the load number;

3. the identity of the person or persons providing services in harvesting the wood by name or crew number;

4. a description of wood in each load, in sufficient detail for the person providing services to identify it, as by location and pile number;

5. the location where the wood will be measured.

NOTE: Examples of a preliminary record are a clipboard list by consecutive load numbers or consecutively numbered trucking slips.

D. Availability of preliminary record. The preliminary record must be retained by the person requiring services and must be made available to the person providing services at the harvesting site on the day the wood is removed, and thereafter at a reasonable location designated by the person requiring services, and must remain available to the person providing services until 15 days after the related measurement tally sheet has been delivered to him.

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01-001 C.M.R. ch. 383, § 3