§ 83-201 — Definitions

Kansas § 83-201

• Jurisdiction: Kansas
• Ch. 83: WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
• Art. 2: STANDARDS AND ENFORCEMENT

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As used in article 2 of chapter 83 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated and K.S.A. 83-502, and amendments thereto:
(a) "Weights and measures" means all commercial weights or measures of every kind, instruments and devices for weighing and measuring, and any appliance and accessories associated with any or all such instruments and devices and any point-of-sale system.
(b) "Weight" as used in connection with any commodity means net weight, except if the label declares that the product is sold by drained weight, the term means net drained weight.
(c) "Correct" as used in connection with weights and measures means conformance to all applicable tolerances, specifications and requirements as established by the secretary and those established within article 2 of chapter 83 of Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto or any rules and regulations adopted thereunder.
(d) "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.
(e) "Secondary standards" means the physical standards which are traceable to the primary standards through comparisons, using acceptable laboratory procedures, and used in the enforcement of weights and measures laws and rules and regulations.
(f) "Person" means an individual, agent or employee of a service company, partnerships, corporations, companies, societies and associations.
(g) "Sale from bulk" means the sale of commodities when the quantity is determined at the time of sale.
(h) "Package" means any commodity put up or packaged in any manner in advance of sale in units suitable for either wholesale or retail sale.
(i) "Drained weight" means the weight of the solid or semisolid product representing the contents of a package or container obtained after a prescribed method for excluding the liquid has been employed.
(j) "Secretary" means the secretary of agriculture or the secretary's authorized representative.
(k) "Measuring device" includes all weights, scales, beams, measures of every kind, instruments and mechanical devices for weighing or measuring, and any appliances and accessories connected with any or all such instruments.
(l) "Point-of-sale system" means any combination of a cash register or other devices, or system, such as a scanner, capable of recovering stored information related to the price or computing the price of any individual item which is sold or offered for sale at retail. A point-of-sale system may also include or be attached or connected to a weighing or measuring device.
(m) "Scanner" means any electronic system that employs a laser-bar code reader to retrieve product identity, price or other information stored in a computer memory.
(n) "Service company" means a company which is in the business of examining, calibrating, testing, repairing and adjusting weighing and measuring devices but such term does not include a technical representative unless the technical representative is the owner of such service company.
(o) "Technical representative" means an individual who installs, repairs, adjusts or calibrates the weighing and measuring devices and certifies the accuracy of the weighing and measuring devices.

Legislative History

L. 1985, ch. 345, § 1; L. 1994, ch. 83, § 1; L. 1996, ch. 146, § 11; April 18.