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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 137 — Management of Rechargeable Batteries and Batteries Containing Mercury

§ 14333. Limitations on sale of zinc-carbon batteries containing mercury

Statutory text

No person shall sell, offer for sale, or offer for promotional purposes any zinc-carbon battery manufactured on or after , that contains mercury that was intentionally introduced as described in section 14332 of this title.

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.

  1. Mercury-Containing Battery Management Act

    Pub. L. 104–142 title II § 204 · 110 Stat. 1329

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 14333

    (Pub. L. 104–142, title II, § 204, May 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 1336.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 104–142, title II, § 204, May 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 1336.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 204. LIMITATIONS ON THE SALE OF ZINC-CARBON BATTERIES CONTAINING MERCURY. No person shall sell, offer for sale, or offer for promotional purposes any zinc-carbon battery manufactured on or after the date of enactment of this Act, that contains mercury that was intentionally introduced as described in section 203.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 104–142, title II, § 204, , 110 Stat. 1336.)

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