BILL NUMBER: AB 1518	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Perea
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Conway,   Gordon,   and Morrell   )

    (   Coauthor:   Senator   La Malfa
  ) 

                        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 amended, 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  construction materials, including, but not limited to,
 earth, stone, rock, sand, gravel,  limestone, ready 
 mixed concrete, cementitious materials, recycled construction
materials,  or asphalt paving materials to use an unattended
weighing system to weigh the vehicle and to issue a weighmaster
certificate  to buyers who opt to utilize the unattended system
 , 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 
construction materials, including, but not limited to,  earth,
stone, rock, sand, gravel,  limestone, ready mixed concrete,
cementitious materials, recycled construction materials,  or
asphalt paving materials may use an unattended weighing system to
weigh the vehicle and to issue a weighmaster certificate  to
buyers who opt to utilize the unattended system  . 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.