Definitions - Service Agencies For Weighing And Measuring Devices - Business & Professions - CA

Section § 12531

This section defines important terms related to the repair and servicing of commercial weighing or measuring devices. A "service agency" is a business that fixes these devices in exchange for payment. A "service agent" is someone who works for the service agency to do the actual repairs. The term "device" refers to any equipment used for weighing or measuring for commercial use. To "place in service" means allowing a device to be used once it's been tested and approved. "Correct" indicates the device meets all technical standards, while "repair" encompasses maintaining, installing, adjusting, or servicing these devices.

As used in this chapter, the following definitions are applicable:

(a) “Service agency” means a person, as defined in Section 12011, that for hire, award, commission, or any other payment of any kind, repairs a commercial device.

(b) “Service agent” means a person employed by a service agency to repair a commercial device.

(c) “Device” means a weighing or measuring equipment, contrivance, or instrument used, or designed to be used, for determining weight or measure, and includes any tool, appliance, or accessory used in connection therewith, that is used for commercial purposes, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 12500.

(d) “Placed in service” means to permit the use of a device that has been tested and found to be correct, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 12500, and type approved, as provided for in Section 12500.5.

(e) “Correct” means a device that meets all of the tolerance and specification requirements of Section 12107.

(f) “Repair,” in any of its variant forms, means to provide maintenance, or to install, adjust, recondition, or service a device.

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