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Ever wonder if you really received as many gallons of gasoline as you just paid for on the pump? How do you know that the steak you bought actually weighs a pound? Did that taxi really take you for a 5-mile ride? Who would know?

Weights and Measures Inspectors compare and reproduce exact standards for a gallon, pound, mile, or any unit used to buy, sell, or trade commodities or services. Their job is to maintain these standards in order to keep a level playing field for all of those involved in commerce, buyer and seller alike.

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We received Second Place at the Government, Business, & Education Tech Expo '98 in Los Angeles

Click below to see our certificate

Tech Expo 2nd Place certificate

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Theodore K. Davis, Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer

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 Manuel Villicana, Deputy Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer
 
 Theodore K. Davis

Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer
   
 Manuel Villicana
Deputy
 Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer

"Weights and Measures may be ranked among the necessaries of life to every individual of human society. They enter into the economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. They are necessary to every occupation of human industry..."

John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State

February 22, 1821

 

 

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