Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Ride and Measurement Standards

Weights & Measures Device Registration (State Program, No Fee)

Lancaster County terminated its own weights-and-measures program in 2011, and the county's own current FAQ states directly: 'Weights & Measures is now controlled by the State of Pennsylvania.' Any Lancaster County business with a commercial scale, meter, or other weighing/measuring device — including restaurant, coffee-shop, food-truck, retail-store, and auto-repair industries — is now inspected by PDA's Bureau of Ride and Measurement Standards rather than a county office, confirmed by PDA's own 2010 Annual Report, which states the Department 'will have to assume inspection responsibilities for Lancaster and Elk Counties, as they have terminated their weights and measures programs,' adding 6,736 devices to the state's inspection roster in 2011. The Consolidated Weights and Measures Act, 3 Pa.C.S. §4114, ends with this sentence: 'Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the department to impose a fee for the registration of any weighing and measuring device.' So there is no per-device registration or inspection fee anywhere in the applicable statute, and none may be charged.