West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 33 - Waste Management, Division Of Water And Waste Management › Title 33 - LEGISLATIVE RULE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION WASTE MANAGEMENT › Series 33-11 - Covered Electronic Devices Takeback Program › Section 33-11-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
2.1. "Brand" means
				the name, symbol, logo, trademark, or other information that identifies a
				product rather than the components of the product.
2.2. "Computer" means a desktop, personal
				computer or laptop computer, including a computer monitor. Computer does not
				include a personal digital assistant device, computer peripheral such as a
				mouse or other similar pointing device, a printer or a detachable
				keyboard.
2.3. "Consumer" means,
				for the purpose of this rule, a natural person or resident, corporation, firm,
				partnership, agency, association, organization or society or any other entity
				that resides in West Virginia and has legally purchased or is in legal
				possession of a CED.
2.4. "County"
				means any county commission or solid waste authority within the
				state.
2.5. "Covered electronic
				device (CED)" means a television, computer or video display device with a
				screen that is greater than four inches measured diagonally. "Covered
				electronic device" does not include a video display device that is part of a
				motor vehicle or that is contained within a household appliance or commercial,
				industrial, or medical equipment.
2.6. "Department" means the Department of
				Environmental Protection.
2.7.
				"Manufacturer" means a person that is the brand owner of a covered electronic
				device or television sold or offered for sale in West Virginia by any means,
				including transactions conducted through retail sales outlets, catalogs or the
				internet.
2.8. "Municipality" means
				a community incorporated through the West Virginia Secretary of State's
				Office.
2.9. "Person" means a
				natural person, corporation, firm, partnership, association or society and the
				plural as well as the singular.
2.10. "Recyclable Materials" means those
				materials that would otherwise become solid waste for disposal in a refuse
				disposal system and which may be collected, separated or processed and returned
				to the marketplace in the form of raw materials or products.
2.11. "Television" means any
				telecommunication system device that is designed to receive moving pictures and
				sound broadcasts over a distance and includes a television tuner or a video
				display device peripheral to a computer in which the display contains a
				television tuner.
2.12. "Secretary"
				means the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection.
2.13. "Video display device" means an
				electronic device with an output surface that displays or is capable of
				displaying moving graphical images or visual representations of images
				sequences or pictures that show a number of quickly changing images on a screen
				to create the illusion of motion. Video display device includes a device that
				is an integral part of the display and cannot easily be removed from the
				display by the consumer and that produces the moving images on the screen. A
				"video display device" may use a cathode-ray tube (CRT), liquid crystal display
				(LCD), gas plasma, digital light processing, other image projection technology
				or imaging display technologies.
2.14. Other definitions in West Virginia Code
				§ 22-15A-2 are adopted for use, where applicable, in this
				rule.