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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 9 Sec. 2470e

  • Consumer: means any person who purchases, leases, contracts for, or otherwise agrees to pay consideration for goods or services not for resale in the ordinary course of the person's trade or business but for the person's use or benefit or the use or benefit of a member of the person's household, or in connection with the operation of the person's household or a farm whether or not the farm is conducted as a trade or business, or a person who purchases, leases, contracts for, or otherwise agrees to pay consideration for goods or services not for resale in the ordinary course of the person's trade or business but for the use or benefit of the person's business or in connection with the operation of the person's business. See
  • following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See

§ 2470e. Definitions

As used in this subchapter:

(1) “Children’s product” means any consumer product marketed for use by children under the age of 12 or whose substantial use or handling by children under 12 years of age is reasonably foreseeable, including toys, furniture, jewelry, personal care products, clothing, and food containers and packaging.

(2)(A) “Contain or containing lead,” unaccompanied by a specific standard, means containing or having a surface coating containing the following amount of lead by weight of lead or lead compound, unless the Commissioner of Health, in consultation with the Attorney General by rule, reduces this percentage generally or with respect to specific products:

(i) 0.06 percent as of October 1, 2008;

(ii) 0.03 percent as of July 1, 2009; and

(iii) 0.01 percent as of January 1, 2010.

(B) If the standard set under this subdivision (2) is preempted by a federal standard as to any class of products, then “contain or containing lead,” unaccompanied by a specific standard, means the lowest such federal standards and federal effective dates applicable to such a class of products.

(3) “Nonresidential paints and primers” does not mean artists’ supplies. (Added 2007, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; amended 2011, No. 136 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. May 18, 2012.)