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ORDINANCE 84- 2
(Weights & Measures Device Registration Fees)
The Contra--Costa. County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows
(omitting the parenthetical footnotes from the official text of
the enacted or amended provisions of the County Ordinance Code) :
SECTION I : Section 522-2.406 (c) is amended to effectuate the 1923
amendment of Business and Professions Code Section 12241 which
eliminates the exemption of retail gasoline pump meters from the
measuring device registration fee (enacted by Stats, 1983, Chap.
1245 §4) , to read:
522-2 . 406 Devices.
(a) Subject Devices . The commercial weighing and/or
measuring devices subject to fees hereunder (per number at
each location are those listed by the State Sealer (California
Department of Agriculture) and subject to the inspection and
testing program of the County Sealer (Director) , as follows
("up to" includes the specified amount) :
*1. Electric meters - up to 200 AMP maximum capacity.
*2 . All cord/wire and fabric meters.
**3 . Liquid meters - up to 30 GPM maximum capacity.
**4 . Liquified petroleum gas meters - stationary LPG
dispensers only - 60 GPM maximum capacity.
*5. Taximeters.
* *6 . Vapor meters - up to 450 CFH maximum capacity.
*8. Computing scales/POS systems/counter sales.
**9. Monorail and meat beam scales - up to 1 ,000 lbs .
**10. Platform scales - up to 1, 000 lbs.
*11. Jewelers scales.
**12. Hanging scales - up to 1, 000 lbs.
*13. Odometers.
*Similar in size to small retail scales or taximeters.
**Difflculty in testing is similar to small retail scales or
taximeters.
(b) Houses. For electric and vapor meters, each house or
mobile home is considered a location, except in a mobile home
park or apartment complex where the park or complex is considered
one location.
(c) Exemptions. No fees are chargeable for any retail
scale used primarily to weigh feed and seed.
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SECTION II . EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective
30 days after passage, and within 15 days after passage shall be
published once, with the names of the supervisors voting for and
against it, in the MARTINEZ NEWS-GAZETTE a newspaper published
in this Co.unty. .
PASSED on January 24, 1984 , by the following vote:
AXES: Supervisors — Powers, Fanden, Schroder, McPeak, Torlakson.
NOES: Supervisors - None.
ABSEN'f: Supervisors - None.
ATTEST: J.R. OLSSON, County Clerk /6 r
& ex officio Clerk of the Board, Board . air
[SEAL].
By: Deputy.
Dana M. Herman
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