(a) The director shall adopt regulations for the enforcement of this chapter under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act). These have the effect of law.
(b) The regulations may include
(1) standards of net weight, measure, or count, and reasonable standards of fill, for a commodity in package form;
(2) rules governing the technical and reporting procedures to be followed, and the report and record forms and marks of approval and rejection to be used by inspectors of weights and measures in the discharge of their official duties;
(3) exemptions from the sealing or marking requirements of AS 45.75.120 for weights and measures of a character or size that sealing or marking would be inappropriate, impracticable, or damaging to the apparatus in question;
(4) for classes of weights and measures of a character that retesting is unnecessary to continued accuracy, exemptions from the requirements of AS 45.75.070 and 45.75.080 for testing, and schedules fixing the frequency of required retests for classes of devices exempted; and
(5) in the implementation of AS 19.10.060(b), provisions governing the size, weight, and load limitations established under AS 19.10.060; the issuance of permits for overweight and oversize vehicles; and the operation of weigh stations.
(c) The regulations must include specifications, tolerance, and regulations for weights and measures of the character of those specified in AS 45.75.080, designed to eliminate from use, without prejudice to apparatus that conforms as closely as practicable to the official standards, those that
(1) are not accurate;
(2) are of such construction that they are not reasonably permanent in their adjustment or will not repeat their indications correctly; or
(3) facilitate the perpetration of fraud.
(d) The specifications, tolerances, and regulations for commercial weighing and measuring devices, together with amendments to them, as recommended by the National Bureau of Standards or its successor organization, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and published in the National Bureau of Standards or its successor organization, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Handbook 44 and supplements to it, or in any publication revising or superseding Handbook 44, are the specifications, tolerances, and regulations for commercial weighing and measuring devices of the state, except as specifically modified, amended, or rejected by a regulation adopted by the director.
(e) For the purposes of this chapter, apparatus is correct when it conforms to the requirements adopted in accordance with this section; other apparatus is considered incorrect.
(f) The director shall adopt regulations establishing reasonable fees for testing, inspection, and other services provided under this chapter, and procedures for collecting the fees.