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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="22-501" title_number="22" title_name="Poisons, Dangerous Household Substances, Flammable Products, and Hazardous Materials" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Hazardous Materials">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle, “hazardous material” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Any substance that may cause substantial personal injury or substantial illness from customary or reasonably foreseeable handling or use, or ingestion by children, and is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Toxic;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Corrosive;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Flammable or combustible;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>An irritant;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>A strong sensitizer; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>A substance that generates pressure by decomposition, heat, or other means; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any other substance that the Secretary declares to be hazardous material under § 22-502 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In this subtitle, “hazardous material” does not include:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Any food, drug, or cosmetic that is subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act or Title 21, Subtitle 2 of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A fuel that is a household substance as defined in § 22-301 of this title; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A pesticide that is subject to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act unless the pesticide is contained in an article that, because it contains the pesticide, is as hazardous as any substance described in subsection (a) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
