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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="6-905" title_number="6" title_name="Toxic, Carcinogenic, and Flammable Substances" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Mercury">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this part the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="a–1">
    <text>“Electric relay” means a product or device that opens or closes electrical contacts to effect the operation of other devices in the same or another electrical circuit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="a–2">
    <text>“Electric switch” means a product or device that opens or closes an electrical circuit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="a–3">
    <text>“Gas valve switch” means a product or device that opens or closes a gas valve.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Manufacturer” means a person that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Produces a product;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For a multicomponent product, produces or assembles the final product; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Serves as an importer or domestic distributor of a product produced outside of the United States.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Marketer” means a person that manufactures, assembles, sells, distributes, affixes a brand name or private label to, or licenses the use of a brand name on:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A fever thermometer containing mercury;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A thermostat containing mercury;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>An electric switch containing mercury or a product component with an electric switch containing mercury;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>An electric relay containing mercury or a product component with an electric relay containing mercury; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>A gas valve switch containing mercury or a product component with a gas valve switch containing mercury.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Mercury–added product” means any of the following products if containing elemental mercury or a mercury compound that has been added to the product for any reason:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Dyes or pigments; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Fluorescent lamps.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Motor vehicle” has the meaning stated in § 11–135 of the Transportation Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Reclamation facility” means a site:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Where equipment is used to recapture mercury from mercury–added fluorescent lamps for the purpose of recycling or reusing the mercury; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>That collects mercury–containing components from mercury–added fluorescent lamps for the eventual recapture and recycling or reuse of the mercury.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Thermostat” means a device that regulates temperature in an enclosed area by controlling heating, cooling, or ventilation equipment.</text>
  </level>
</section>
