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51:1-113.  Definitions
    Definitions:  For the purpose of this act, the following words shall be deemed to have the meaning herein given them:

    (a)  "Department"  shall mean the Division of Weights and Measures in the Department of Law and Public Safety.

    (b)  "Person"  or  "persons"  shall be construed to include any individual,  partnership, association, corporation or other form of business enterprise.

    (c)  "Weights and measures officer"  shall be construed to mean and include  the Superintendent of the Division of Weights and Measures or his assistants or  inspectors, county or assistant county superintendents of weights and measures  or inspectors, and municipal or assistant municipal superintendents of weights  and measures or inspectors.

    (d)  "Weighing or measuring devices"  as used in this act shall be deemed to  mean and to include any scale, weight, scale beam, patent balance, computing  scale, spring scale, person weighing scale operated for profit, steelyard,  liquid measure, gasoline dispensing device, grease dispensing device, counter  measure, or any other instrument or apparatus, and accessories connected  therewith used in trade and commerce in the State of New Jersey in weighing or  measuring any commodity, fluid, or article of merchandise, or person;   provided, the term shall not include any meter, measure or scale used by a  public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Utility  Commissioners of this State for measuring any commodity or service furnished or  sold by such public utility.

    (e)  "Repair,"   "repairing,"  and  "repaired,"  shall be construed to mean  any partial or complete construction or reconstruction, repair, alteration,  installation or adjustment of any weighing or measuring devices used in trade  and commerce in the State of New Jersey.

    (f)  "Repairman"  shall mean any person engaging in the partial or complete  constructing or reconstructing, repairing, altering, installing or adjusting of  any weighing or measuring devices used in trade and commerce in the State of  New Jersey.

    (g)  "Adjustment"  and  "adjusting."   The moving of any part of a weighing  or measuring device to obtain a correct zero indication only shall not be  construed to come within the meaning of these terms.

    (h)  "Engaging in business"  or  "engaged in business"  shall be deemed and  understood to mean and include any single transaction, act, or sale.

     L.1938, c. 182, p. 392, s. 1.  Amended by L.1953, c. 48, p. 841, s. 12.