§ 38 §1604 — Lead-acid batteries

For the purposes of this section, "lead-acid battery" means a device designed and used to store electrical energy through chemical reactions involving lead and acid.
1.
Disposal.
No person may dispose of a lead-acid battery by burial, incineration, deposit or dumping so that the battery or any of its constituents may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters.
2.
Lead-acid battery retailers.
A person selling or offering for retail sale lead-acid batteries shall:
3.
Lead-acid battery wholesalers.
Any person selling new lead-acid batteries at wholesale shall accept, at the point of transfer, in a quantity at least equal to the number of new lead-acid batteries purchased, used lead-acid batteries in reasonably clean and unbroken condition from customers. A person accepting lead-acid batteries in transfer from an automotive battery retailer shall be allowed a period, not to exceed 90 days, to remove batteries from the retail point of collection.
4.
Inspection and enforcement.
The Department of Environmental Protection shall produce, print and distribute notices required under subsection 2. The department shall enforce the provisions of this section and may inspect places, buildings or premises governed by this section.
5.
Violations.
Any person who does not abide by this section commits a civil violation subject to section 349.

Legislative History

PL 1989, c. 583 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 585, §E35 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 878, §A116 (RPR).