Terms Used In New York Laws > Environmental Conservation > Article 37 > Title 10 - Regulation of Chemicals In Upholstered Furniture, Mattresses and Electronic Enclosures

• Consumer product: means any product that is regularly used or purchased to be used for personal, family or household purposes. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-1001
• Covered flame retardant chemical: means any chemical that meets both of the following criteria:
  
  (a) A functional use for the chemical is to resist or inhibit the spread of fire or as a synergist to chemicals that resist or inhibit the spread of fire; and
  
  (b) The chemical is one of the following: a halogenated, organophosphorus, organonitrogen, or nanoscale chemical. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-1001
• Custom upholsterer: means a person who, either by himself or herself or through employees or agents, repairs, reupholsters, recovers, restores, or renews upholstered furniture. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-1001
• Electronic display: means a consumer product with a display screen and associated electronics that, as its primary function, displays visual information from wired or wireless sources and is available for purchase by individuals or households for personal use in a residential space. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-1001
• Gel foam mattress: means a mattress in which interior foam layers are composed of polyurethane foam or latex foam which has a polyurethane-based gel material either mixed with the foam or applied to the outer surface of polyurethane or latex foam, or a mattress in which the core or padding layers are composed solely of gel material. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-1001
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Mattress: means a ticking filled with a resilient material used alone or in combination with other products intended or promoted for sleeping upon. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-1001
• Organohalogen flame retardant chemical: means a chemical that meets both of the following criteria:
  
  (a) A functional use for the chemical is to resist or inhibit the spread of fire or as a synergist to chemicals that resist or inhibit the spread of fire; and
  
  (b) The chemical contains one or more halogen elements, including fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine, bonded to carbon. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-1001
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Reupholstered furniture: means furniture whose original fabric, padding, decking, barrier material, foam, or other resilient filling has been replaced by a custom upholsterer, that has not been sold since the time of the replacement. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-1001
• Ticking: means the outermost layer of fabric or related material that encloses the core and upholstery materials of a mattress or mattress pad. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-1001
• Upholstered furniture: means any item of furniture, that consists, in whole or in part, of leather, plastic, fabric or other material that contains cotton, wool, polyurethane or other natural or synthetic material that is placed in cushions or on the frame of the furniture. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-1001