(1) Weights and measures standards, whose physical condition, prevents the laboratory from performing the requested service may be:

(a) Returned to the sender at the sender's expense; or

(b) Repaired, if possible, by the laboratory.

(2) When possible, the laboratory will make repairs:

(a) At the rate of one hundred dollars per hour; and

(b) Only after a signed written repair agreement between the department and the owner of the weights or measures standard is concluded.

(3) All repair fees charged by the laboratory are in addition to any testing or calibration fees charged by the laboratory.