South Carolina Code 39-9-50. State’s primary standards; verification of secondary standards
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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 39-9-50
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture of South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 39-9-20
- Primary standards: means the physical standards of South Carolina which serve as the legal reference from which all other standards and weights and measures are derived. See South Carolina Code 39-9-20
- Secondary standards: means the physical standards traceable to the primary standards through comparisons using acceptable laboratory procedures and used in the enforcement of weights and measures law and regulations. See South Carolina Code 39-9-20
Weights and measures traceable to the United States prototype standards supplied by the federal government, or approved as being satisfactory by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, are the state’s primary standards of weights and measures and must be maintained in a calibration prescribed by the institute. All secondary standards may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Agriculture and must be verified upon their initial receipt and as often as considered necessary by the commissioner.