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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="6-1101" title_number="6" title_name="Toxic, Carcinogenic, and Flammable Substances" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Rechargeable Batteries">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Cell” means a galvanic or voltaic device weighing 25 pounds or less consisting of an enclosed or sealed container which contains a positive and a negative electrode consisting primarily of cadmium or lead, and which contains a gel or liquid starved electrolyte.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Cell manufacturer” means a person who:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Manufactures cells in the United States; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Imports into the United States cells or units for which no unit management program has been put into effect by the actual manufacturer of the cell or unit.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Easily removed”, with respect to a rechargeable battery which powers a rechargeable product, means removable by hand or by using common household tools.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Institutional user” means a person conducting medical, commercial, industrial, governmental, or similar operations.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Marketer” means a person who manufactures, assembles, sells, distributes, affixes a brand name or private label to, or licenses the use of a brand name on a unit or product with an easily removable rechargeable battery.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except for a person who affixes a brand name or private label to a unit or to a product with an easily removable rechargeable battery, “marketer” does not include a person engaged in the retail sale of a unit or of a rechargeable product.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Nonremovable”, with respect to a rechargeable battery which powers a rechargeable product, means not easily removed.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Rechargeable battery” means any type of enclosed device or sealed container which consists of one or more cells and which weighs 25 pounds or less.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Rechargeable battery” does not include a battery used as a power source for starting a motor vehicle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Rechargeable product” means a device for which the primary power source is a nonremovable rechargeable battery.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Responsible entity” means a person designated in a unit management program, or in the absence of a unit management program, the marketer whose name appears on a unit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Sell” means to sell, offer for sale, or offer for promotional purposes a unit or a product with an easily removable rechargeable battery.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Unit” means a cell, a rechargeable battery, or a rechargeable product.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Unit management program” means a program or system for the collection, recycling, or disposal of units put in place by a marketer under § 6-1107 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
