CHAPTER 457

H.P. 963 - L.D. 1309

An Act To Protect Public Health by Reducing Human Exposure

to Arsenic

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 33 MRSA §173-A is enacted to read:

§173-A.__Information provided

Beginning January 1, 2004, unless the transaction is exempt under section 172, the seller of residential real property shall provide to the purchaser information developed by the Director of the Bureau of Health within the Department of Human Services regarding what homeowners should know about arsenic in private water supplies and arsenic in treated wood.__Copies of this information must be provided to sellers at cost.

Sec. 2. 38 MRSA c. 16-C is enacted to read:

CHAPTER 16-C

ARSENIC-TREATED WOOD PRODUCTS

§1681.__Definitions

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, "arsenic-treated wood" means lumber, timber, piles, poles, posts, plywood, shakes, shingles or other wood or forest