Weights and measures: electric vehicle fueling systems.

Existing law vests the Department of Food and Agriculture with general supervision of the weights and measures and weighing and measuring devices sold or used in the state, including devices used to measure electricity sold as a motor vehicle fuel. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of state law governing weights and measures, and requires the secretary to establish, by regulation, tolerances and specifications and other technical requirements for commercial weighing and measuring, as specified. Under regulations adopted pursuant to this authority, electric vehicle fueling systems used for commercial purposes are required to comply with specified requirements by certain dates based on the date of installation of the system and whether the system supplies alternating, or direct, current electricity. Existing law authorizes the secretary, and each sealer acting under the supervision and direction of the secretary, to enforce provisions of state law governing weights and measures, as specified. Existing law requires the sealer of a county to inspect and test weighing and measuring devices, as specified, that are used or sold in the county. Existing law requires the secretary to adopt regulations governing the inspection frequency of all commercially used weights, measures, and weighing and measuring apparatus in the state and requires each county sealer to perform those inspections as may be required by the secretary. Existing law makes a violation of the provisions of state law governing weights and measures a crime. This bill would authorize a sealer to inspect an electric vehicle fueling system used for commercial purposes only on or after the date that the system is required to comply with the regulations described above. The bill would prohibit a sealer from inspecting those systems more frequently than once every 3 years, except as specified, and would require a sealer to inspect those