Utah Admin. Code R70-910-6 - Requirements for the Registration of Servicepersons and Service Agencies for Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices
(1) Per Section
4-9-109, the department
incorporates by reference the 2024 version of the Uniform Regulation for the
Voluntary Registration of Servicepersons and Service Agencies for Commercial
Weighing and Measuring Devices as adopted by the National NCWM and published in
the National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 130, "Uniform Laws
and Regulations," with the following modifications.
(2) The department shall require annual
registration to service weighing devices or measuring devices from:
(a) individuals or Servicepersons;
or
(b) Service Agencies, defined as
an agency, firm, company, or corporation that for hire, award, commission, or
any other payment of any kind installs, services, repairs, reconditions,
calibrates, or places into service a commercial weighing or measuring
device.
(3) Individuals
or Service Agencies shall provide evidence or demonstrate through a department
approved exam or equivalent that they:
(a)
are qualified to install, service, repair, or recondition a commercial weighing
or measuring device;
(b) have a
thorough working knowledge of applicable weights and measures laws, orders,
rules, and regulations; and
(c)
possess, or have access to, suitable and calibrated weights and measures field
standards and testing equipment, adequate in amount and appropriate in
design.
(4) A Service
Agency that provides training for Servicepersons shall notify the department
and shall register Servicepersons within 30 days of completing the
training.
(5) The department shall
notify denied applicants in writing if the applicant fails to complete the
entire application;
(6) The
department may issue a notice of conditional denial on incomplete applications
and allow the applicant a specified amount of time to correct any
deficiencies.
(7) Applicants shall
submit the annual registration fee at the time of registration.
(8) Department employees may not be eligible
for registration as a Serviceperson under this rule.
(9)
(a) A
registered Serviceperson shall be qualified to place in service or remove a
rejection tag from a heavy capacity scale after the department certifies
adequate testing weights.
(b) The
department shall consider adequate testing weights as 10,000 pounds of test
weights or one-fourth the capacity of the scale, whichever is less.
(10) Servicepersons or Service
Agencies not registered with the department may not:
(a) place into public or commercial service a
weighing or measuring device; or
(b) represent themselves as a registered
Serviceperson by the department.
(11) The department may, for good cause,
after careful investigation, consideration, and due notice and process,
including an opportunity for a hearing, suspend or revoke a Certificate of
Registration under this rule and Section
4-1-106.
(12) If the department suspends or revokes
the registration of a Serviceperson, they shall notify the known employing
Service Agency within three business days.
(13) It shall be unlawful for an individual
to place into public or commercial service a weighing or measuring device that
a registered Serviceperson has not tested or sealed.
Notes
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