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control room temperature through communication with heating, | | ventilating or air-conditioning equipment.__"Mercury-added | | thermostat" includes thermostats used to sense and control room | | temperature in residential, commercial, industrial and other | | buildings but does not include a thermostat used to sense and | | control temperature as part of a manufacturing process. |
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| | | Sec. 4. 38 MRSA §1661-C, sub-§§6 to 8 are enacted to read: |
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| | | 6.__Instruments and measuring devices.__Effective July 1, | | 2006, a person may not sell or offer to sell or distribute the | | following mercury-added products: |
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| | | B.__An esophageal dilator, bougie tube or gastrointestinal | | tube; |
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| | | E.__A hygrometer or psychrometer; |
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| | | F.__A manometer other than a manometer prohibited from | | sale under subsection 2; |
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| | | H.__A sphygmomanometer; or |
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| | | I.__A thermometer other than a thermometer prohibited from | | sale under subsection 1. |
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| | | This subsection does not apply to the sale of a mercury-added | | product listed in paragraphs A to I if use of the product is | | required under federal law or federal contract specification | | or if the only mercury-added component in the product is a | | button cell battery. |
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| | | 7.__Mercury switches and relays.__Effective July 1, 2006, a | | person may not sell or offer to sell or distribute a mercury | | switch or mercury relay individually or as a product | | component.__This prohibition does not apply if the switch or | | relay is used to replace a switch or relay that is a component | | in a larger product in use prior to July 1, 2006 and one of | | the following applies: |
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| | | A.__The larger product is used in manufacturing; or |
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