Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4101:6 - Bedding and Upholstered Furniture Inspection › Chapter 4101:6-1 - General Provisions › Section 4101:6-1-02 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in Chapter 4101:6-1 of the Administrative Code, the
				words, terms, and phrases have the following meanings:
(A) "Department" means the department of
			 commerce.
(B) "Director" means the
			 director of the department of commerce.
(C) "Division" means the division of
			 industrial compliance.
(D) "Person"
			 means an individual, group of individuals, partnership, corporation, or
			 association.
(E) "Bedding" means
			 any upholstered furniture filled with material, any mattress, upholstered
			 spring, comforter, bolster, pad, cushion, pillow, mattress protector, quilt,
			 and any other upholstered articles to be used for sleeping, sitting, resting,
			 or reclining purposes, and any glider, hammock, or other substantially similar
			 article that is wholly or partly upholstered.
(F) "Comforter" or "quilt" means any
			 covering, stuffed or filled, to be used for sleeping, sitting, resting, or
			 reclining purposes.
(G) "Mattress,"
			 mattress pad," "mattress protector," or "pad" means any mattress, mattress pad,
			 mattress protector, chair pad, pad, or quilted pad to be used for sleeping,
			 sitting, resting, or reclining purposes.
(H) "Pillow," "bolster," feather bed,"
			 "cushion," "sleeping bag," or "upholstered headboard" means any bag, case, or
			 covering that has been stuffed or filled
			 to be used for sleeping, sitting, resting, or reclining purposes.
(I) "Upholstered spring" means any box
			 spring, Hollywood bed, studio couch, sofa bed, or
			 Davenport bed, to be used for sleeping, sitting,
			 resting, or reclining purposes.
(J)
			 "Upholstered furniture" means any article of furniture, wholly or partly stuffed or filled with material,
								that is used or intended for use for sitting, resting,
			 or reclining purposes.
(K) "Stuffed
			 toy" means any article that could be used by children, as a plaything,
			 that is
			 wholly or partly stuffed with material.
(L) "Material" means any article, substance,
			 or portions thereof used in the manufacture, repair, or renovation of bedding
			 or stuffed toys.
(M) "Plaything"
			 means any manufactured item for the educational or recreational use of
			 children, or the equivalent thereof.
(N) "New material" means any material
			 that has
			 not been used in the manufacture of another article, or used for any other
			 purpose, and includes by-products of machines at mills using only new raw
			 material.
(O) "Secondhand material"
			 means any material that is not "new material."
(P)
			 "Shredded" means material that has been cut up, torn up, broken up, or ground
			 up.
(Q) "Secondhand articles of
			 bedding" means any article of bedding that has been
			 put to bodily use by, on, or about any person or animal and is sold or offered
			 for sale "as is."
(R) "Secondhand
			 upholstered furniture" means any article of upholstered furniture
			 that has
			 been put to bodily use by, on, or about any person or animal and is sold or
			 offered for sale "as is."
(S)
			 "Remade, repaired, or renovated articles of bedding not for sale" means any
			 article that is remade, repaired, or renovated for and is returned to the owner
			 for his own use.
(T) "Sale,"
			 "sell," "sold," or "lease,"
			  in the corresponding tense,
			 means
			 sell, offer to sell, or deliver or consign in sale, or possess with intent to
			 sell, or deliver in sale.
(U)
			 "Label" means any tag or label used for identification of an article of
			 bedding, upholstered furniture, or stuffed
			 toy.