BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE
SECTION 12531
12531.  As used in this chapter, the following definitions areapplicable: (a) "Service agency" means any person, as defined in Section12011, that for hire, award, commission, or any other payment of anykind, repairs a commercial device. (b) "Service agent" means any person employed by a service agencyto repair a commercial device. (c) "Device" means any weighing or measuring equipment,contrivance, or instrument used, or designed to be used, fordetermining weight or measure, and includes any tool, appliance, oraccessory used in connection therewith, that is used for commercialpurposes as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 12500. (d) "Placed in service" means to permit the use of a device thathas been tested and found to be correct, as defined in subdivision(c) of Section 12500, and type approved, as provided for in Section12500.5, or to submit a device to a sealer for verification prior toinstallation. (e) "Correct" means any device that meets all of the tolerance andspecification requirements of Section 12107. (f) "Repair," in any of its variant forms, means to providemaintenance, or to install, adjust, recondition, or service a device.