§ 389-s. Manufacture and sale of seasonal and decorative lighting products containing lead. 1. When used in this title, "seasonal and decorative lighting product" shall mean portable, plug-connected, temporary-use lighting products and accessories that have a nominal 120-volt input voltage rating.

(a) Lighting products within the scope of this rule are factory-assembled with push-in, midget or miniature screw base lamp holders connected in series or parallel, directly across the 120-volt input.

(b) Such lighting products include, but are not limited to lighted decorative outfits such as wired holiday string lights, pre-lit artificial Christmas trees, plants, flowers or wreaths, stockings, stars, candles and light sculptures.

2. On each seasonal and decorative lighting product manufactured, sold or delivered by a manufacturer or distributed within this state after the effective date of this section that contains an electrical cord casing in which lead is present in a quantity greater than one hundred parts per million, there shall be printed thereon or attached thereto a warning label.

3. Such warning label shall contain the following statement: "WARNING: HANDLING THE COATED ELECTRICAL WIRE OF THIS PRODUCT MAY EXPOSE YOU TO LEAD. WASH HANDS THOROUGHLY AFTER USE."

4. Any manufacturer who violates this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for each such violation.