Illinois Administrative Code › Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part 190 - COLLECTION OF OUT-OF-SERVICE MERCURY THERMOSTATS › Section 190.120 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Except as stated in this Section, or unless a different meaning
				of a word or term is clear from the context, the definitions of words or terms
				in this Part will be the same as those applied to the same words or terms in
				the Mercury Thermostat Collection Act.
"Act" means the Mercury Thermostat Collection Act [ 415 ILCS 98
				].
"Agency" means
the Illinois Environmental Protection
				Agency.
[
				415
				ILCS 98/10 ]
"Collection location" means a permanent or temporary physical
				location at which mercury thermostats are collected for transportation,
				recycling, and disposal as part of a collection program.
"Collection Program" means
a system for collection,
				transportation, recycling, and disposal of out-of-service mercury thermostats
				that is financed and managed or provided by a thermostat manufacturer
				individually or collectively with other thermostat manufacturers in accordance
				with the Act.
[
				415
				ILCS 98/10 ]
"Contractor" means a person engaged in the business of
				installation, service, or removal of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning
				components.
[
				415
				ILCS 98/10 ]
"Mercury Thermostat" means
a product or device that
				uses a mercury switch to sense and control room temperature through
				communication with heating, ventilating, or air conditioning equipment,
				including those products or devices used to sense and control room temperature
				in residential, commercial, industrial, and other buildings. "Mercury
				thermostat" does not mean thermostats used to sense and control temperature as
				part of a manufacturing or industrial process.
[
				415 ILCS
				5/22.23b(f) ]
"Out-of-service Mercury Thermostat" means
a mercury
				thermostat that is removed, replaced, or otherwise taken out of
				service.
[
				415
				ILCS 98/10 ]
"Person" means
any individual, partnership,
				co-partnership, firm, company, limited liability company, corporation,
				association, joint stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision, State
				agency, or any other legal entity or its legal representatives, agents, or
				assigns.
[
				415
				ILCS 98/10 ]
"Thermostat Manufacturer" means
a person who owns or
				owned a name brand of one or more mercury thermostats sold in
				Illinois.
[
				415
				ILCS 98/10 ]
"Thermostat retailer" means
a person who sells
in Illinois
thermostats of any kind primarily to homeowners or other
				nonprofessionals through any sale or distribution mechanism. A thermostat
				retailer that meets the definition of thermostat wholesaler
will
be considered a thermostat wholesaler.
[
				415
				ILCS 98/10 ]
"Thermostat wholesaler" means
a person who is engaged
				in the distribution and wholesale selling of heating, ventilation, and
				air-conditioning components, including, but not limited to, thermostats, to
				contractors, and whose total wholesale sales account for 80% or more of its
				total sales. A thermostat manufacturer, as defined in this Section, is not a
				thermostat wholesaler.
[
				415
				ILCS 98/10 ]