Section 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.