The department shall have the authority to establish, by regulation, a program requiring the registration of persons engaged in the business of selling, installing, servicing and repairing various types of commercial weighing and measuring devices. The program may prescribe minimum field standards to be maintained by those persons to adequately test and place weighing and measuring devices into commercial service. The program may also require that those persons give adequate notice to the responsible weights and measures jurisdiction of the installation of a commercial weighing and measuring device.