2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 37 - Substances Hazardous or Acutely Hazardous to Public Health, Safety or the Environment › Title 10 - Regulation of Chemicals in Upholstered Furniture, Mattresses and Electronic Enclosures › 37-1001 - Definitions.

§ 37-1001. Definitions.
As used in this title:
1.  "Consumer  product"  means  any  product that is regularly used or
purchased to  be  used  for  personal,  family  or  household  purposes.
Consumer  product  shall not mean: (a) a food or beverage or an additive
to a food or beverage regulated by  the  United  States  Food  and  Drug
Administration;  or  (b) a drug, biologic or medical device regulated by
the United States Food and Drug Administration.
2. "Covered flame retardant chemical" means any  chemical  that  meets
both of the following criteria:
(a)  A  functional  use  for  the chemical is to resist or inhibit the
spread of fire or as a synergist to chemicals that resist or inhibit the
spread of fire; and
(b)  The  chemical  is  one   of   the   following:   a   halogenated,
organophosphorus, organonitrogen, or nanoscale chemical. As used in this
title:
(i)  "Halogenated  chemical" is any chemical that contains one or more
halogen elements, including fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine.
(ii) "Organophosphorus chemical" is any chemical that contains one  or
more carbon elements and one or more phosphorus elements.
(iii)  "Organonitrogen  chemical" is any chemical that contains one or
more carbon elements and one or more nitrogen elements.
3. "Custom upholsterer" means a  person  who,  either  by  himself  or
herself or through employees or agents, repairs, reupholsters, recovers,
restores,  or  renews  upholstered furniture. A custom upholsterer shall
not include any manufacturer of new, ready to be sold furniture, or  new
made to order furniture.
4. "Electronic display" means a consumer product with a display screen
and  associated  electronics  that,  as  its  primary function, displays
visual information from wired or wireless sources and is  available  for
purchase  by individuals or households for personal use in a residential
space. Electronic display shall not include: (a) any electronic  display
with  a  screen  area  smaller  than  or  equal  to  one  hundred square
centimeters or fifteen and one-half square inches; (b)  projectors;  (c)
virtual  reality  headsets;  (d) all-in-one video conference systems; or
(e) displays that are integrated with appliances and are  not  available
for purchase as separate products by end-users.
5.  "Gel foam mattress" means a mattress in which interior foam layers
are  composed  of  polyurethane  foam  or  latex  foam   which   has   a
polyurethane-based gel material either mixed with the foam or applied to
the  outer surface of polyurethane or latex foam, or a mattress in which
the core or padding layers are composed solely of gel material.
6. "Intentionally added" shall have the same meaning as "intentionally
added chemical"  in  subdivision  eleven  of  section  37-0901  of  this
article.
7.  "Mattress"  means  a ticking filled with a resilient material used
alone or in combination with other products  intended  or  promoted  for
sleeping upon.
8.  "Memory  foam  mattress"  means a mattress which contains interior
layers  of  foam  composed  of   viscoelastic   polyurethane   foam   or
low-resistance polyurethane foam.
9.  "Organohalogen  flame  retardant  chemical"  means a chemical that
meets both of the following criteria:
(a) A functional use for the chemical is  to  resist  or  inhibit  the
spread of fire or as a synergist to chemicals that resist or inhibit the
spread of fire; and
(b)  The  chemical  contains  one  or more halogen elements, including
fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine, bonded to carbon.
10. "Reupholstered furniture" means furniture whose  original  fabric,
padding, decking, barrier material, foam, or other resilient filling has
been  replaced by a custom upholsterer, that has not been sold since the
time of the replacement.
11.  "Ticking" means the outermost layer of fabric or related material
that encloses the  core  and  upholstery  materials  of  a  mattress  or
mattress pad. A mattress ticking may consist of several layers of fabric
or related materials quilted together.
12.   "Upholstered  furniture"  means  any  item  of  furniture,  that
consists, in whole or in part, of  leather,  plastic,  fabric  or  other
material  that  contains  cotton, wool, polyurethane or other natural or
synthetic material that is placed in cushions or on  the  frame  of  the
furniture.
13.  "Upholstered  or  reupholstered  furniture  component"  means the
separate constituent parts of upholstered furniture, specifically  cover
fabrics,  barrier  materials,  resilient  filling materials, and decking
materials.