The Legislative Assembly finds that it is in the best interest of this state for architectural paint manufacturers to finance and manage an environmentally sound, cost-effective architectural paint stewardship program, undertaking responsibility for the development and implementation of strategies to reduce the generation of post-consumer architectural paint, promote the reuse of post-consumer architectural paint and collect, transport and process post-consumer architectural paint for end-of-product-life management, including reuse, recycling, energy recovery and disposal. [2009 c.777 § 1; 2015 c.27 § 50]

459A.820 to 459A.855 were enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but were not added to or made a part of ORS Chapter 459A or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.