Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 137 — Management of Rechargeable Batteries and Batteries Containing Mercury
§ 14332. Limitations on sale of alkaline-manganese batteries containing mercury
Statutory text
No person shall sell, offer for sale, or offer for promotional purposes any alkaline-manganese battery manufactured on or after , with a mercury content that was intentionally introduced (as distinguished from mercury that may be incidentally present in other materials), except that the limitation on mercury content in alkaline-manganese button cells shall be 25 milligrams of mercury per button cell.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Mercury-Containing Battery Management Act
Pub. L. 104–142 title II § 203 · 110 Stat. 1329
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 14332
(Pub. L. 104–142, title II, § 203, May 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 1336.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 104–142, title II, § 203, May 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 1336.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 203. LIMITATIONS ON THE SALE OF ALKALINE-MANGANESE BATTERIES CONTAINING MERCURY. No person shall sell, offer for sale, or offer for promotional purposes any alkaline-manganese battery manufactured on or after the date of enactment of this Act, with a mercury content that was intentionally introduced (as distinguished from mercury that may be incidentally present in other materials), except that the limitation on mercury content in alkaline-manganese button cells shall be 25 milligrams of mercury per button cell.
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