19.94.195 - Specifications, tolerances, technical requirements -- Adoption -- Hearing -- Notice.

Specifications, tolerances, technical requirements — Adoption — Hearing — Notice.

(1) The department shall adopt the specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for commercial weighing or measuring instruments or devices, together with amendments thereto, as recommended by the most recent edition of Handbook 44 published by the national institute of standards and technology or any successor organization as the specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for commercial weighing or measuring instruments or devices commercially used in this state.

     (2)(a) To promote uniformity, any supplements or amendments to Handbook 44 or any similar subsequent publication of the national institute of standards and technology or any successor organization shall be deemed to have been adopted under this section.

     (b) The director may, however, within thirty days of the publication or effective date of Handbook 44 or any supplements, amendments, or similar publications give public notice that a hearing will be held to determine if such publications should not be applicable under this section. Any such hearing shall be conducted under chapter 34.05 RCW.

[1992 c 237 § 10.]