BILL NUMBER: AB 1518	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Perea

                        JANUARY 17, 2012

   An act to add Section 12737 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to weighmasters.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1518, as introduced, Perea. Weighmasters: automated weighing
systems.
   Existing law provides for the licensure of weighmasters who weigh,
measure, or count any commodity and issue a statement or memorandum
that is used as the basis for either the purchase or sale of that
commodity. Existing law requires that a weighmaster issue a signed
weighmaster certificate whenever payment for the commodity is
dependent on a written or printed weight, measure, or count.
   This bill would authorize any weighmaster weighing any vehicle
moving earth, stone, rock, sand, gravel, or asphalt paving materials
to use an unattended weighing system to weigh the vehicle and to
issue a weighmaster certificate, as provided. The bill would define
an unattended weighing system as an automated system not directly
under the supervision of a weighmaster that meets the approval,
testing, and sealing requirements specified in existing law. The bill
would state that it would not impact existing weighing and ticketing
systems.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 12737 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   12737.  (a) Any weighmaster weighing any vehicle moving earth,
stone, rock, sand, gravel, or asphalt paving materials may use an
unattended weighing system to weigh the vehicle and to issue a
weighmaster certificate. The name of the principal weighmaster and
the unique system identification number of the unattended weighing
system utilized shall be imprinted on the weighmaster certificate and
this shall satisfy the requirements of subdivision (c) of Section
12715. Nothing in this section impacts existing weighing and
ticketing systems.
   (b) For purposes of this section:
   (1) "Principal weighmaster" means the person or entity identified
on the weighmaster certificate, as described in subdivision (b) of
Section 12714, that may employ or designate any person to act for the
weighmaster as a deputy weighmaster pursuant to Section 12710.
   (2) "Unattended weighing system" means an automated system not
directly under the supervision of a weighmaster that meets the
approval, testing, and sealing requirements of Section 12717.