Terms Used In New York Laws > Environmental Conservation > Article 27 > Title 21 - Mercury-added Consumer Products

• Collector: means any person who accepts mercury-added consumer products in order to transfer them to a solid waste management facility, a hazardous waste management facility or another collector. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Consumer: means any person who purchases a mercury-added consumer product for use other than resale. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• disposal: means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any substance so that such substance or any related constituent thereof may enter the environment. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Distributor: means any person who sells mercury-added consumer products to a retailer in this state, including any manufacturer who sells to retailers in the state. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Elemental mercury: means the material represented by the chemical symbol Hg. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• General purpose lights: means lamps, bulbs, tubes, or other electric devices that provide functional illumination for indoor residential, indoor commercial, and outdoor use. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Household: means a single or multiple family residence. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Long lifetime: means more than twenty-four thousand hours when tested on a T8 instant start ballast, a T12 rapid start ballast, or a T5 programmed start ballast, and turned on and off every three hours ("three hour starts"). See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Manufacturer: means any person who manufactures mercury-added consumer products. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury hydrometer: means a mercury-added consumer product used for measuring the specific gravity of a liquid. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury manometer: means a mercury-added consumer product used for measuring the pressure of liquids and gases. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury relay: means a mercury-added consumer product or device that opens or closes electrical contacts to affect the operation of other devices in the same or another electrical circuit. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury sphygmomanometer: means a mercury-added consumer product used for measuring blood pressure in the arteries. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury switch: means a mercury-added consumer product or device that opens or closes an electrical circuit or gas valve. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury thermometer: means a mercury-added consumer product used for measuring temperature. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury thermostat: means a mercury-added consumer product that uses a mercury switch to sense and control room temperature through communication with heating, ventilating or air conditioning equipment. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury-added component: means a motor vehicle component that contains greater than fifteen milligrams of mercury, which was intentionally added to such vehicle in order to provide a specific characteristic, appearance or quality, to perform a specific function, or for any other purpose. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury-added consumer product: means any device or material into which elemental mercury or mercury compounds are intentionally added during such device's or material's formulation or manufacture, and in which the continued presence of mercury is required to provide a specific characteristic, appearance or quality, or to perform a specific function. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury-added lamp: means an electric lamp to which mercury or mercury compounds are intentionally added during the manufacturing process, including, but not limited to, compact fluorescent lamps, fluorescent lamps and tubular fluorescent lamps with normal or long lifetime. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury-added novelty consumer product: means a mercury-added consumer product intended mainly for personal or household enjoyment or adornment. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Producer of mercury-added lamps: means any person who:
  
  (a) manufactures and sells mercury-added lamps under its own brand;
  
  (b) resells under its own brand equipment produced by other suppliers, a reseller not being regarded as the producer of mercury-added lamps if the brand of the producer of mercury-added lamps appears on the equipment, as provided for in paragraph (a) of this subdivision; or
  
  (c) serves as the importer or domestic distributor of a mercury-added lamp if the brand name owner is located outside of the United States. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Retailer: means any person in this state who sells new mercury-added consumer products to consumers for purposes other than resale. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Solid waste: means solid waste as defined in section 27-0701 of this article. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Solid waste management facility: means a solid waste management facility as defined in section 27-0701 of this article. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Special purpose lights: means the following specialty lighting: appliance, black light, germicidal, colored, plant light, reflector, reprographic, shatter-resistant, cold temperature, sign service, and preheat. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101