Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-109 – Duties of owners or custodians of measuring apparatus
Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-109
- Board: means board of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
- Certificate of conformance: means a document issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology based on testing in participating laboratories and constitutes evidence of conformance of a type with the requirements of National Institute of Standards and Technology handbooks 44, 105-1, 105-2, or 105-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
- Department: means department of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
- Incorrect: means to be in noncompliance with any specification, tolerance, performance criteria, standard, or any part of this chapter or any rule adopted under it. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
- Measure: includes all measures of every kind, including but not limited to weight, mass, length, volume, time, and count; instruments and devices for weighing, measuring, or counting; and appliances and accessories associated with any such instruments and devices. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
- Measurement standards: includes any standard or definition or model or reference or measurement relating to metrology including but not limited to weights and measures, artifacts, and reproducible definitions of a unit of measure and their applicable tolerances including those of the SI, and definitions of a lot size, sample and tolerances as related to statistical inspection. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
- Type: means a model or models of a particular measurement system, instrument, element, or a field standard that positively identifies the design. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
Measures and measurement standards shall be subject to the control of the department, through the measurement standards branch, until such time as they receive a certificate of conformance. Measures or measurement standards that have been initially type evaluated and approved, and subsequently found to be incorrect as defined in this chapter shall remain subject to the control of the department, through the measurement standards branch, until such time as suitable repairs shall have been made, and the measure or measurement standard is found to be correct as defined in this chapter, or such devices may be destroyed. The owners of the unapproved or rejected measures or measurement standards shall cause the same to be type evaluated and approved or made correct within thirty days or such longer period as may be authorized by the department, through the measurement standards branch; or, in lieu of this, may dispose of the same, but only in such manner as is specifically authorized by the department, through the measurement standards branch. Measures and measurement standards subject to this chapter that have not been type evaluated and approved or that have been rejected shall not be used until they have been officially type evaluated and approved or reexamined and found to be correct or until specific written permission for such use is issued by the department, through the measurement standards branch, or until the rejection tag has been removed by the department, through the measurement standards branch, and the rejected device or apparatus repaired or corrected and placed in service by a person duly registered to perform the acts under rules adopted by the board pursuant to section 486-7.