Section 414.072

Title XXVI TRADE AND COMMERCE

Chapter 414

Effective - 28 Aug 2008, 2 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  414.072.  Measuring devices, certain fuels, inspection, when — correction or removal, when — public policy regarding devices. — 1. At least every six months, the director shall test and inspect the measuring devices used by any person selling an average of two hundred or more gallons of gasoline, gasoline-alcohol blends, diesel fuel, heating oil, kerosene, or aviation turbine fuel per month at either retail or wholesale in this state, except marine installations, which shall be tested and inspected at least once per year.

  2. When the director finds that any measuring device does not correctly and accurately register and measure the monetary cost, if applicable, or the volume sold, he shall require the correction, removal, or discontinuance of the same.

  3. Notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary, it has been and continues to be the public policy of this state to prohibit gasoline and diesel motor fuel in a retail sale transaction from being dispensed by any measuring device or equipment that is not approved by the department of agriculture or the National Type Evaluation Program (NTEP).

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(L. 1987 S.B. 249, A.L. 2008 S.B. 907)