§ 27A-2-11-502 — Plastic bottles or containers - Definitions.

For the purposes of the Plastic Container Labeling Act: 1. "Board" means the Environmental Quality Board; 2. "Department" means the Department of Environmental Quality; 3. "Label" means a molded, imprinted or raised symbol on or near the bottom of a plastic container or bottle; 4. "Person" means an individual, sole proprietor, partnership, association, corporation or other legal entity; 5. "Plastic" means any material made of polymeric organic compounds and additives that can be shaped by flow; 6. "Plastic bottle" means a plastic container intended for single use that has a neck that is smaller than the body of the container, accepts a screw-type, snap cap or other closure and has a capacity of sixteen (16) fluid ounces or more, but less than five (5) gallons; and 7. "Rigid plastic container" means any formed or molded container, other than a bottle, intended for single use, composed predominantly of plastic resin, and having a relatively inflexible finite shape or form with a capacity of eight (8) ounces or more but less than five (5) gallons.

Legislative History

Added by Laws 1990, c. 121, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1990. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 202, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from Title 63, § 3001.1 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.