Section 389-S - Manufacture and sale of seasonal and decorative lighting products containing lead1.When used in this title, "seasonal and decorative lighting product" shall mean portable, plug-connected, temporary-use lighting products and accessories that have a nominal 120-volt input voltage rating. (a) Lighting products within the scope of this rule are factory-assembled with push-in, midget or miniature screw base lamp holders connected in series or parallel, directly across the 120-volt input. (b) Such lighting products include, but are not limited to lighted decorative outfits such as wired holiday string lights, pre-lit artificial Christmas trees, plants, flowers or wreaths, stockings, stars, candles and light sculptures. 2. On each seasonal and decorative lighting product manufactured, sold or delivered by a manufacturer or distributed within this state after the effective date of this section that contains an electrical cord casing in which lead is present in a quantity greater than one hundred parts per million, there shall be printed thereon or attached thereto a warning label. 3. Such warning label shall contain the following statement: "WARNING: HANDLING THE COATED ELECTRICAL WIRE OF THIS PRODUCT MAY EXPOSE YOU TO LEAD. WASH HANDS THOROUGHLY AFTER USE." 4. Any manufacturer who violates this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for each such violation.N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 389-S
Added by New York Laws 2022, ch. 40,Sec. 2, eff. 2/28/2022.