                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 3.2-5700)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different
meaning:		&#8220;Certificate of Conformance&#8221; means a document issued by
the National Type Evaluation Program of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Department of Commerce based on testing in
participating laboratories, said document constituting evidence of conformance
of a type with the requirements of:

1. National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 44; Specifications,
Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices;

2. National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 105-1, Specifications
and Tolerances for Reference Standards and Field Standard Weights and Measures,
Specifications and Tolerances for Field Standard Weights (NIST Class F);

3. National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 105-2, Specifications
and Tolerances for Reference Standards and Field Standard Weights and Measures,
Specifications and Tolerances for Field Standard Measuring Flasks; and

4. National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 105-3, Specifications
and Tolerances for Reference Standards and Field Standard Weights and Measures,
Specifications and Tolerances for Graduated Neck Type Volumetric Field
Standards, and supplements thereto, or any publication revising or superseding
the publications specified in this definition.
			&#8220;Condemnation tag&#8221; means a tag applied to a weight or measure
that fails to pass an official inspection, the application of which tag requires
the immediate removal of the weight or measure from service.			&#8220;Official
inspection&#8221; means an inspection by the Commissioner of a commercially used
weight or measure pursuant to &#xA7; 3.2-5609.			&#8220;Rejection tag&#8221;
means a tag applied to a weight or measure that fails to pass an official
inspection, the application of which tag requires the removal of the weight or
measure from service if the weight or measure is not adjusted to conform to
requirements specified by the Weights and Measures Act of Virginia (&#xA7;
3.2-5600 et seq.) or any regulation adopted hereunder.			&#8220;Service
agency&#8221; means: (i) a business; or (ii) that portion of a government or
political subdivision engaged in the adjustment, installation, placing in
service, recommending for use, reconditioning, repairing, servicing, or selling
of any weight or measure commercially used or employed (a) in establishing the
size, quantity, extent, area, or measurement of quantities, things, products, or
articles for distribution or consumption, purchased, offered, or submitted for
sale, hire, or award, or (b) in computing any basic charge or payment for
services rendered on the basis of something&#8217;s weight or its
measure.			&#8220;Service technician&#8221; means any individual who for hire,
award, commission, or any other payment of any kind, adjusts, installs, places
in service, recommends for use, reconditions, repairs, services, or sells a
commercial weight or measure.			&#8220;Standard&#8221; means a required basis
for conformance, adjustment, or verification.			&#8220;System&#8221; means the
grouping of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent weights or measures to
form a complex whole.			&#8220;Traceability&#8221; means an accounting of the
relationship of the calibration of a weight or measure standard or calibrating
equipment to a national standard maintained or adopted by the National Institute
of Standards and Technology of the U.S. Department of Commerce.			&#8220;Weight
or measure&#8221; means the terms as defined in &#xA7; 3.2-5600 and shall also
include the term &#8220;system&#8221; as defined in this chapter.

HISTORY: 1992, c. 242, § 3.1-969.1; 2008, c. 860.