New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 21 - AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING
Chapter 16 - AGRICULTURAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Part 5 - BONDING AND REGISTRATION OF SERVICE TECHNICIANS AND SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS FOR COMMERCIAL WEIGHING OR MEASURING DEVICES
Section 21.16.5.14 - PLACE-IN-SERVICE REPORT

Universal Citation: 21 NM Admin Code 21.16.5.14

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 24, December 23, 2024

A. Within five (5) calendar days after a new or used device is installed, or a device that has been officially rejected has been repaired, the original of the properly executed place-in-service report shall be sent to the department. The duplicate copy of the report shall be retained by the registered service establishment and the triplicate copy of the report shall be given to the owner or operator of the device.

B. A place-in-service report for the types of devices specified below shall be accompanied by the registered service establishment's test report which shows the device was tested and performing within applicable tolerances at the time the device was placed into service:

(1) For scales above two thousand (2,000) pounds or one thousand (1,000) kilograms capacity, a test report shall be required which shows that certified test weights were applied to test the scale to used capacity or ten thousand (10,000) pounds or five thousand (5,000) kilograms whichever is less.

(2) For meters (liquid measuring devices) with a capacity of more than twenty (20) gallons or seventy five (75) liters per minute, a test report shall be required which shows that a volumetric prover of sufficient capacity to receive a test draft as specified in NIST handbook 44 for the device under test was used to test and calibrate the device.

(3) For devices other than those described above, test reports may be required by the director if it is determined at his discretion that test reports are in the best interest of all concerned.

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