§ 176. Declaration of policy and purpose. The legislature hereby finds
and declares that voluntary and orderly conversion to the metric system
of weights and measures is of vital importance to the economy of the
state. It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this state to
encourage the gradual implementation of the metric system throughout the
state's government, industry, commerce, business, education and
agriculture. This article is enacted in the exercise of the public power
in order to encourage such implementation and to provide a revised code
of weights and measures which will be responsive to the present and
future needs of commerce, industry and consumers. The legislature finds
and declares that the coordination and administration of this unitary
regulatory system governing weights and measures throughout the state
should be, and is hereby, vested in the commissioner of agriculture and
markets and that enforcement of this article by the counties and cities
of the state shall be under his supervision.