Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4622 – A. Each commercial weighing and measuring device which is subject to the jurisdiction of the department shall be registered annually with the department in accordance with rules and
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4622
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Commercial weighing and measuring device: means any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring device commercially used or employed in establishing the size, quantity, extent, area, time, distance, or measurement of quantities, things, produce, or articles for distribution or consumption, purchased, offered, or submitted for sale, hire, or award, or in computing any basic charge or payment for services rendered on the basis of weight or measure. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
- Commission: means the Commission of Weights and Measures. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
- Commissioner: means the commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, or his duly authorized representatives acting at his discretion. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
- Department: means the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: means both plural and singular, as the case demands, and includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, companies, societies, and associations
(14)(a) Except as provided in Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph, "petroleum product" means any refined hydrocarbon mixture including motor oil, kerosene, gasoline, gasohol, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, heating kerosene, and any blend of two or more refined hydrocarbon mixtures except liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
- Weighmaster: means any person who weighs, measures, or counts any commodity and issues a certificate of weight, measure, or count, except retailers who weigh, measure, or count commodities for sale at retail directly to consumers, or a person engaged in the business of public weighing or measuring for hire. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
A. Each commercial weighing and measuring device which is subject to the jurisdiction of the department shall be registered annually with the department in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the commissioner.
B. The registration fee for each commercial weighing and measuring device shall be as follows:
(1) Category 1–zero to 1,000 pounds weight up to $50.00
(2) Category 2–over 1,000 to 10,000 pounds
weight up to $135.00
(3) Category 3–over 10,000 pounds weight up to $250.00
(4) The registration fee of any other commercial weighing and measuring device shall be as established in a fee schedule adopted by the commissioner. The fee rates shall be based on the cost of the work performed.
C. Each weighmaster who is licensed by the commission shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred dollars.
D. The commissioner shall adopt, by rule, the fees charged for weighing and measuring services performed by the department, including those services performed by the department’s State Metrology Laboratory. The fee rates shall be based on the cost of the work performed.
E. The registration fee for each service agency shall be one hundred dollars. The registration fee for each service person shall be sixty-five dollars.
F. Repealed by Acts 2003, No. 139, §3, eff. May 28, 2003.
G.(1) There is hereby created, as a special fund in the state treasury, the Weights and Measures Fund. After compliance with the requirements of La. Const. Art. VII, § 9(B) relative to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund, and after a sufficient amount is allocated from that fund to pay all of the obligations secured by the full faith and credit of the state which become due and payable within any fiscal year, the treasurer shall pay an amount equal to the amount received by the state treasury from all assessments, fees, penalties, and other funds received under the provisions of this Chapter into the fund. All unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund. The treasurer shall invest the monies in the fund in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. All interest earned from investment of monies in the fund shall be deposited in the fund.
(2) Subject to annual appropriation by the legislature, the monies in the fund shall be used solely to provide for the expenses of the program established by this Chapter and to the carrying out of the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of the commission and the commissioner under the provisions of this Chapter.
Acts 1992, No. 55, §1; Acts 2003, No. 117, §1, eff. July 1, 2003; Acts 2003, No. 139, §§1 and 3, eff. May 28, 2003; Acts 2021, No. 145, §1, eff. July 1, 2021.