[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2, Parts 200 to end]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR201.71]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER II--GRAIN INSPECTION, PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ADMINISTRATION 
       (PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS PROGRAMS),DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 201--REGULATIONS UNDER THE PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 201.71  Scales; accurate weights, repairs, adjustments or replacements after inspection.

    (a) All scales used by stockyard owners, market agencies, dealers, 
packers, and live poultry dealers to weigh livestock, livestock 
carcasses, live poultry, or feed for the purposes of purchase, sale, 
acquisition, payment, or settlement shall be installed, maintained, and 
operated to ensure accurate weights. Such scales shall meet applicable 
requirements contained in the General Code, Scale Code, and Weights Code 
of the 1996 edition of National Institute of Standards and Technology 
(NIST) Handbook 44, ``Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical 
Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices,'' which is hereby 
incorporated by reference. This incorporation by reference was approved 
by the Director of the Federal Register on January 11, 1989, in 
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51. These materials are 
incorporated as they exist on the date of approval and a notice of any 
change in these materials will be published in the Federal Register. 
This handbook is for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. 
Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. It is also available 
for inspection at the Office of the Federal Register Information Center, 
800 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20408.
    (b) All scales used by stockyard owners, market agencies, dealers, 
packers, and live poultry dealers to weigh livestock, livestock 
carcasses, live poultry, or feed for the purpose of purchase, sale, 
acquisition, payment, or settlement of livestock or live poultry, and 
all scales used for the purchase, sale, acquisition, payment, or 
settlement of livestock on a carcass weight basis shall be equipped with 
a printing device which shall record weight values on a scale ticket or 
other document.
    (c) All vehicle scales used to weigh livestock, live poultry, or 
feed for purposes of purchase, sale, acquisition, payment, or settlement 
of livestock or live poultry shall be of sufficient length and capacity 
to weigh the entire vehicle as a unit: Provided, That a trailer may be 
uncoupled from the tractor and weighed as a single unit.
    (d) No scale shall be operated or used by any stockyard owner, 
market agency, dealer, packer, or live poultry dealer to weigh 
livestock, livestock carcasses, live poultry, or feed for purposes of 
purchase, sale, acquisition, payment, or settlement of livestock, 
livestock carcasses or live poultry unless it has been found upon test 
and inspection, as specified in Sec. 201.72, to be in a condition to 
give accurate weight. If

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a scale is inspected or tested and found to be in a condition to give 
incorrect or inaccurate weights or if any repairs, adjustments or 
replacements are made to a scale, it shall not be used until it has been 
inspected and tested and determined to meet all accuracy requirements 
specified in the regulations in this section.

[65 FR 17763, Apr. 5, 2000]