27 NAC 10-005. Registered Repair Personnel

005 Registered Repair Personnel. 005.01 The Director may enter into a reciprocal agreement with any other State to provide registration standards for applicants. 005.02 Repair personnel and repair businesses annually certify their compliance with these regulations and that they have access to all necessary testing equipment and standards. 005.03 Prior to initial registration, and at the discretion of the Director thereafter, repair personnel will pass an examination established by the Director to determine if they are qualified to sell, install, service, repair or recondition devices. All training provided by the department will include a training fee to cover the actual costs of the training. 005.04 Registration. 005.04A The annual fee is forty-five dollars for all registered repair personnel. Repair businesses owe a fee of forty-five dollars times the number of employee repair personnel. If at any time during the year a repair business employs any additional repair personnel, the business will pay an additional forty-five dollars fee per additional employee. 005.04B The annual registration fee is due on January 31 of each year. Persons seeking registration at any time during the year pay the entire fee. 005.04C Upon payment of the annual registration fee and any change thereafter, a repair personnel business provides a list of all employee repair personnel. 005.04D An employee repair personnel will no longer be registered if he or she ceases to be employed by the original repair business. Any repair personnel changing employers or becoming self-employed will pay a new registration fee. 005.05 An applicant receives an annual Certificate of Registration when in compliance with these regulations which expires each year on January 31. 005.06 All work on weighing and measuring devices authorized by this section may only be performed by or under the direct supervision of a registered person except registered persons are not authorized to perform such work for any entity for which the registered person may have a conflict of interest. Registered persons have the authority to: 005.06A Remove an official rejection tag or mark placed on a weighing and measuring device by the department; and 005.06B Place In service, until such time as an official examination can be made, a new or used weighing and measuring device or one that has been officially rejected by the department. 005.07 Registered persons are responsible to adjust all devices as closely as practicable to zero error. 005.08 Placed in Service Reports may only be obtained from the department or may be replicated so long as the report is an accurate copy. Placed in Service Reports include the assigned registration number and be signed by the repair personnel actually performing the work. Repair personnel have twenty-four hours to mail or electronically submit the Placed in Service Report to the department. 005.09 Standards and Testing Equipment. 005.09A At least every twelve months, all field standards used for servicing, installing, repairing, reconditioning and testing weights and measures devices for which the competence of repair personnel will be submitted to the department to be verified as correct and calibrated. 005.09B Registered persons will use in servicing, installing, repairing or reconditioning commercial weighing and measuring devices any field standards or testing equipment that have been verified as correct and calibrated. 005.09C In lieu of submission of physical standards, the department may accept proper documentation that the standards being used have been verified as correct and calibrated by any laboratory that is formally accredited or recognized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. 005.10 Repair personnel may be required by the Director to participate in training provided by the Department, pass additional tests, or both, based on poor work performance. The Director may also place a registered person on probation or suspend or revoke a Certificate of Registration if the Director finds that any registered person is not qualified to be registered, has failed to pay all fees due or has performed work which is not authorized. Proceedings to take any such action on a registered person may include the department mandating the removal of an individua! from the list of employee repair personnel working for a registered repair business. The provisions for hearings and notice for permitholders under the Act apply to registered persons.