Bill Text: IL HB4939 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Weights and Measures Act. Provides that a seal placed by the Director on a weighing or measuring device may be broken for purposes of testing, calibration, adjustment, or repair; specifies persons who may break a seal for those purposes. Provides for notice and recordkeeping related to breaking a seal and resealing weighing or measuring devices. Provides that all weighing or measuring devices must be placed into service and sealed before their first use in trade.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4939 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4939-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4939 Introduced , by Rep. Monica Bristow SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 470/42 from Ch. 147, par. 142
225 ILCS 470/42.5 new
Amends the Weights and Measures Act. Provides that a seal placed by the Director on a weighing or measuring device may be broken for purposes of testing, calibration, adjustment, or repair; specifies persons who may break a seal for those purposes. Provides for notice and recordkeeping related to breaking a seal and resealing weighing or measuring devices. Provides that all weighing or measuring devices must be placed into service and sealed before their first use in trade.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Weights and Measures Act is amended by
changing Section 42 and by adding Section 42.5 as follows:
(225 ILCS 470/42) (from Ch. 147, par. 142)
Sec. 42. Sealing and resealing a weighing or measuring
device. A seal placed on any weighing or measuring device by
the Director may be broken for the purposes of testing,
calibration, adjustment, or repair but only by a serviceperson,
service agency, or special sealer registered by the Director or
by a State inspector appointed by the Director.
After testing or servicing, the device must be resealed
with the seal displaying the registration number of the sealer
as assigned by the Director, and the sealer shall be
responsible for the unit after it has been resealed. Written
notice advising the Director as to the unit on which the seal
was broken and resealed must be submitted within 5 days after
resealing so that a recheck may be made by the Department.
If the sole method of sealing the device is an audit trail,
event counter, or similar system, a tamper evident label shall
be affixed to the device; the label shall include the sealer's
registration number as issued by the Director and the most

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recent count or counts listed in the audit trail, event
counter, or similar system. These counts shall also be entered
on all placed in-service reports and any test reports where
calibration counts were changed from the beginning of testing.
Seal placed on weighing or measuring device; breaking for
service; resealing. A seal placed on any weighing or measuring
device by the Director may be broken for the purpose of
calibration, adjustment, or repair, but only by a serviceperson
or special sealer registered by the Director or by a special
sealer. After servicing, the serviceperson must reseal using
the number on the seal as assigned by the Director, and shall
be responsible for the unit after it has been resealed. Written
notice advising the Director within 5 days as to the unit on
which the seal was broken and resealed must be submitted so
that a recheck may be made by the Department.
(Source: P.A. 88-600, eff. 9-1-94.)
(225 ILCS 470/42.5 new)
Sec. 42.5. Placing into service. All weighing or measuring
devices must be placed into service and sealed before their
first use in trade by a serviceperson, service agency, or
special sealer registered by the Director or by a State
inspector appointed by the Director.