Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-24 – Stop-use, stop-sale, hold, and removal orders
Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-24
- Administrator: means the administering officer of the quality assurance division, or any qualified person so designated by the chairperson. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
- Measure: includes all measures of every kind, including but not limited to weight, mass, length, volume, time, and count; instruments and devices for weighing, measuring, or counting; and appliances and accessories associated with any such instruments and devices. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
- Measurement standards: includes any standard or definition or model or reference or measurement relating to metrology including but not limited to weights and measures, artifacts, and reproducible definitions of a unit of measure and their applicable tolerances including those of the SI, and definitions of a lot size, sample and tolerances as related to statistical inspection. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
- sale: include barter and exchange. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
The administrator may issue citations and, incident thereto, stop-use, hold, and removal orders with respect to measures and measurement standards being, or susceptible of being, unlawfully used; and issue citations and, incident thereto, stop-sale, hold and removal orders with respect to packages or consumer commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale, sold, or in process of delivery, whenever in the course of the administrator’s enforcement of the law the administrator determines that such measure or measurement standard or packages or consumer commodities do not comply with this chapter or the rules adopted thereunder, and no person shall use, sell, remove, or move from the premises, as specified, any measure, measurement standard, package, or amount of commodity contrary to the terms of a stop-use, stop-sale, hold, or removal order issued under this section.