Section 16-421. Definitions

As used in this chapter:
    a.  "Brand  name" means a manufacturer's name, brand designation, make
  or model  name  or  number,  or  other  nomenclature  by  which  covered
  electronic equipment is offered for sale by a manufacturer.
    b.  "Cathode  ray  tube"  means  a vacuum tube or picture tube used to
  convert an electronic signal into a visual image.
    c. "Computer" means an electronic, magnetic, optical,  electrochemical
  or  other  high-speed  data  processing  device  performing  a  logical,
  arithmetic or storage function, and may include both a computer  central
  processing  unit  and  a  monitor;  but  such  term shall not include an
  automated typewriter or typesetter, a portable hand-held  calculator,  a
  portable digital assistant, or other similar device.
    d.   "Covered   electronic   equipment"  means  any  computer  central
  processing unit; cathode ray tube; cathode ray  tube  device;  keyboard;
  electronic  mouse  or  similar  pointing  device;  television;  printer;
  computer monitor, including but not limited to a liquid crystal  display
  and  plasma  screens,  or  similar  video display device that includes a
  screen that is greater than four inches measured diagonally and  one  or
  more  circuit boards; a laptop or other portable computer; or a portable
  digital music player that has memory capability and is  battery-powered.
  "Covered  electronic  equipment" does not include any automobile; mobile
  phone; household appliances such as  clothes  washers,  clothes  dryers,
  refrigerators,  freezers, microwave ovens, ovens, ranges or dishwashers;
  equipment that is functionally or physically part of a larger  piece  of
  equipment intended for use in an industrial, research and development or
  commercial  setting;  security, anti-terrorism or medical equipment that
  utilizes a cathode ray tube, a cathode ray tube device or a  flat  panel
  display  or  similar  video display device that is not separate from the
  larger piece of equipment; or any other device, as that term is  defined
  in  section  three  hundred twenty-one of title twenty-one of the United
  States code.
    e.  "Electronic  recycler"  means  a  person  who  1.  refurbishes  or
  otherwise processes covered electronic equipment for reuse or resale; or
  2.   removes, segregates or otherwise extracts components or commodities
  from covered  electronic  equipment,  either  by  manual  or  mechanical
  separation   or  by  changing  such  equipment's  physical  or  chemical
  composition, for the purpose of reusing or recycling such components  or
  commodities.
    f.  "Label"  means  information,  as  required by this chapter, on the
  surface of covered  electronic  equipment,  which  must  be  permanently
  attached  to,  printed  or  engraved  on  or  incorporated  in any other
  permanent manner on such equipment, and obvious and visible to users  of
  such equipment.
    g.  "Manufacturer"  means  a person who: 1. assembles or substantially
  assembles,  or  has  assembled  or  substantially   assembled,   covered
  electronic  equipment  for  sale  in  the  city;  2. manufactures or has
  manufactured covered electronic equipment under its own  brand  name  or
  under  any  other brand name for sale in the city; 3. sells or has sold,
  under its own brand name, covered electric equipment produced by another
  person for sale in the city; 4. owns a brand name that  it  licenses  or
  has  licensed  to another person for use on covered electronic equipment
  sold in  the  city;  5.  imports  or  has  imported  covered  electronic
  equipment  for  sale in the city; or 6. manufactures or has manufactured
  covered electronic equipment for sale in the  city  without  affixing  a
  brand name.
    h.  "Monitor" means a separate visual display component of a computer,
  whether sold separately or with a central processing unit  and  includes

  the  cathode ray tube, liquid crystal display, or other image projection
  technology, and its case, interior wires and circuitry, all exterior and
  interior cables, and power cord.
    i. "Orphan waste" means covered electronic equipment, the manufacturer
  of  which cannot be identified or is no longer in business and for which
  no successor-in-interest has been identified.
    j.  "Person"  means  any  individual,  business  entity,  partnership,
  company,    corporation,    not-for-profit   corporation,   association,
  governmental entity, public benefit corporation,  public  authority,  or
  firm.
    k.   "Recycle"  means  to  use  the  materials  contained  in  covered
  electronic equipment or components thereof  as  raw  materials  for  new
  products or components, but not for energy recovery or energy generation
  by means of combustion, gasification, pyrolysis or other means.
    l.  "Reuse"  means any operation by which covered electronic equipment
  or components thereof are used for the same purpose for which they  were
  conceived.
    m.  "Sell" or "sale" means any transfer for consideration, by lease or
  sales contract of title to  or  the  right  to  use  covered  electronic
  equipment  from a manufacturer or retailer to any person, including, but
  not limited to, transactions conducted  through  retail  sales  outlets,
  catalogs,  or  the  internet; "sell" or "sale" includes transfer of new,
  used or refurbished covered electronic equipment, but does  not  include
  transfers between end users of such equipment.
    n.  "Television"  means a display system containing a cathode ray tube
  or any other type of display primarily  intended  to  receive  broadcast
  video  programming, having a viewable area greater than four inches when
  measured diagonally.