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Board rejects proposed scanner/price-verification ordinance after debate over consumer protection and business fees
Summary
Weights & Measures presented five years of inspections and recommended a scanner-registration fee to fund expanded price-verification work. The board split over cost, burden on small businesses and consumer protection; the ordinance failed on a 1-4 vote.
The board considered a proposed scanner/price-verification ordinance that would have required point-of-sale device registration and an annual fee for retailers to fund price-verification inspections. Weights & Measures presented five years of work: 165 inspections and 3,647 test purchases, of which 266 purchases (7.29%) registered overcharges; average overcharge per incident was about $1.85. Extrapolated…
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