Registered Service Agencies for Scales & Meters

About service agency registration

The Department of Agriculture registers service agencies. This certification program is intended to provide owners of commercially used weighing and measuring devices a list of registered service agencies that can place devices into service.

Types of businesses that may use a service agency to have devices installed, serviced or repaired include:

Gasoline stations and petroleum distributors
Grocery stores, meat markets and candy stores
Package shipping stores
Quarries
Hardware stores
Other businesses that use a commercial weighing or measuring device

Legal authority

STATE: Agriculture Article 11-203(a)(3), COMAR 15.03.11

Requirements

A person seeking certification can fill out the form for Registered Service Technician Certification.
A service agency must provide a copy of their test/service report forms.
A service agency must also provide a copy of the most recent certificate(s) showing that their standards have been submitted to and approved by the Maryland Weights and Measures Laboratory, NIST or other NIST approved state metrology laboratory.
Registered service agencies and service technicians will be added to a list that will be published by the Department.

Application process

Upon receiving the application forms, certificates, and any other information, the submitted materials will be reviewed by State Weights and Measures personnel.

Applicants will be notified of any deficiencies and those must be corrected. Upon completion of the review, the service agency must pay the biennial registration fee of $250.

The applicant will be assigned a registration number and receive a certificate. Also, the attached Registered Service Agency application is included in the email.

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