Amd SS27-2101, 27-2107, 71-2724 & 71-2724, En Con L
Prohibits the sale or offer for sale of electric lamps that contain mercury in excess of specified amounts; provides exceptions and fines for violations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. GRISANTI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting the sale or offer for sale of electric lamps that contain
mercury in excess of specified amounts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 27-2101 of the environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding five new subdivisions 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34 to read as
3 follows:
4 30. "Lighting that contains mercury" means an electric lamp, including
5 compact fluorescent lamps, straight fluorescent lamps and nonlinear
6 fluorescent lamps, to which mercury or mercury compounds are added
7 during the manufacturing process.
8 31. "Long lifetime" means 25,000 hours or more when tested on an elec-
9 tronic ballast, including T8 instant start ballasts and T5 programmed
10 start ballasts, and turned off and on every three hours.
11 32. "Normal lifetime" means less than 25,000 hours when tested on an
12 electronic ballast, including T8 instant start ballasts and T5
13 programmed start ballasts, and turned off and on every three hours.
14 33. (a) "Producer of lighting that contains mercury" means any person
15 that:
16 (i) manufactures and sells lighting that contains mercury under its
17 own brand;
18 (ii) resells under its own brand lighting that contains mercury
19 produced by other suppliers;
20 (iii) imports or exports lighting that contains mercury on a profes-
21 sional basis; or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (iv) serves as the importer or domestic distributor of lighting that
2 contains mercury if the brand name owner is located outside of the
3 United States.
4 (b) "Producer of lighting that contains mercury" does not mean a
5 reseller of lighting that contains mercury if the brand of the manufac-
6 turer of the lighting that contains mercury appears on the lighting.
7 34. "Special purpose lighting" means appliance lighting, black light-
8 ing, germicidal lighting, bug lighting, colored lighting, plant light-
9 ing, straight fluorescent reflector lighting, reprographic lighting,
10 shatter resistant lighting, cold temperature lighting and three-way
11 lighting.
12 § 2. Section 27-2107 of the environmental conservation law is amended
13 by adding three new subdivisions 11, 12 and 13 to read as follows:
14 11. A producer of lighting that contains mercury may not sell, offer
15 for sale or distribute in this state any electric lamps that contain
16 mercury in an amount exceeding, per lamp, the following mercury content
17 standards:
18 (a) 4 milligrams for screw-based compact fluorescent lamps less than
19 25 watts;
20 (b) 5 milligrams for compact fluorescent lamps equal to or more than
21 25 watts and less than 40 watts;
22 (c) 3 milligrams for straight fluorescent T5 lamps with a normal life-
23 time;
24 (d) 4 milligrams for straight fluorescent T8 lamps with a normal life-
25 time;
26 (e) 5 milligrams for straight fluorescent T5 and T8 lamps with a long
27 lifetime;
28 (f) 15 milligrams for T12 8-foot straight fluorescent lamps.
29 12. The mercury content standard specified in subdivision eleven of
30 this section shall not apply to 8-foot models of straight fluorescent T8
31 lamps.
32 13. The mercury content standards specified in subdivision eleven of
33 this section shall not apply to:
34 (a) high-output, and very high-output, straight fluorescent lamps more
35 than 32 millimeters in diameter;
36 (b) mogul bi-pin based lamps;
37 (c) preheat straight fluorescent lamps of any size;
38 (d) special purpose lighting; or
39 (e) high intensity discharge lamps.
40 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 71-2724 of the environmental conserva-
41 tion law, as added by chapter 145 of the laws of 2004, is amended to
42 read as follows:
43 1. Any person who knowingly or intentionally violates any provision of
44 or fails to perform any duty pursuant to title twenty-one of article
45 twenty-seven of this chapter, except subdivision one of section 27-2105
46 and subdivision eleven of section 27-2107 of this chapter, shall upon
47 the first finding of such a violation be liable for a civil penalty not
48 to exceed one hundred dollars. Any person convicted of a second or
49 subsequent violation shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed
50 five hundred dollars for each violation.
51 § 4. Section 71-2724 of the environmental conservation law is amended
52 by adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
53 2-a. Any person who knowingly or intentionally violates or fails to
54 perform any duty imposed by subdivision eleven of section 27-2107 of
55 this chapter or any of the provisions, rule, or regulation promulgated
56 pursuant thereto shall be punishable in the case of a first violation,
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1 by a civil penalty not to exceed ten thousand dollars. In the case of a
2 second and any further violation, the liability shall be for a civil
3 penalty not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars for each violation.
4 § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
5 it shall have become a law.
