Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 2352 – Physical standards

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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 2352

Primary standards: means the physical standards of the State which serve as the legal reference from which all other standards and weights and measures are derived;

[PL 1973, c. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 2302

Secondary standards: means the physical standards which are traceable to the primary standards through comparison, using acceptable laboratory procedures and used in the enforcement of weights and measures laws and regulations;

[PL 1973, c. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 2302

United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72

Weights and measures that are traceable to the United States prototype standards supplied by the Federal Government, or approved as being satisfactory by the National Bureau of Standards, or its successor organization, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, shall be the state primary standards of weights and measures and shall be maintained in such calibration as prescribed by the National Bureau of Standards or the National Institute of Standards and Technology, as applicable. All secondary standards may be prescribed by the state sealer and shall be verified upon their initial receipt and as often thereafter as determined necessary by the state sealer. [PL 1989, c. 24, §2 (AMD).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 1973, c. 91, §3 (RPR). PL 1989, c. 24, §2 (AMD).

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