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Committee advances bill to repeal county-owned public scales; department says few remain
Summary
House Bill 430 would repeal state law framework allowing counties to establish and regulate county-owned public scales. The Department of Labor and Industry told lawmakers county-owned scales are rare; the committee advanced the bill 10-7 on a roll-call vote.
Representative Braxton Mitchell presented House Bill 430 as a red-tape cleanup bill that would repeal statutory language allowing counties to establish, own or operate "public scales." Mitchell said the measure stems from the governor's red-tape relief initiative and would deregulate a function largely handled by state inspection and private commercial scales.
Eric Copeland, Bureau Chief for Building and Commercial Measurements at the Montana Department of Labor and Industry, testified as an informational…
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