Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 446n - Covered Electronic Devices
Section 22a-629. - Definitions.

As used in sections 22a-629 to 22a-640, inclusive, unless the context indicates another meaning or intent:

(1) “Department” means the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection;
(2) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection;
(3) “Cathode ray tube” or “CRT” means a vacuum tube or picture tube used to convert an electronic signal into a visual image;
(4) “Computer” means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high-speed data processing device performing a logical, arithmetic or storage function, and may include, but not be limited to, both a computer central processing unit and a monitor, but does not include an automated typewriter or typesetter, a portable handheld calculator, a portable digital assistant or other similar device;
(5) “Covered electronic device” or “CED” means desktop or personal computers, computer monitors, portable computers, CRT-based televisions and non-CRT-based televisions or any other similar or peripheral electronic device specified in regulations adopted pursuant to section 22a-638, sold to consumers, but does not include: (A) An electronic device that is a part of a motor vehicle or any component part of a motor vehicle assembled by, or for, a vehicle manufacturer or franchise dealer, including replacement parts for use in a motor vehicle; (B) an electronic device that is functionally or physically a part of a larger piece of equipment designed and intended for use in an industrial, commercial or medical setting, including diagnostic, monitoring or control equipment; (C) an electronic device that is contained within a clothes washer, clothes dryer, refrigerator, refrigerator and freezer, microwave oven, conventional oven or range, dishwasher, room air conditioner, dehumidifier or air purifier; (D) telephones of any type unless they contain a video display area greater than four inches measured diagonally; or (E) any handheld device used to access commercial mobile radio service, as such service is defined in 47 CFR 20.3;
(6) “Covered electronic recycler” means a recycler that is approved to recycle covered electronic devices by the department;
(7) “Manufacturer” means any person who: (A) Manufactures or manufactured covered electronic devices under a brand that it licenses, owns or owned, for sale in this state; (B) manufactures or manufactured covered electronic devices without affixing a brand, for sale in this state; (C) resells or has resold in this state under its own brand or label a covered electronic device produced by other suppliers, including retail establishments that sell covered electronic devices under their own brand names; (D) imports or imported into the United States or exports from the United States covered electronic devices for sale in this state; (E) sells at retail a covered electronic device acquired from an importer that is the manufacturer as described in subparagraph (D) of this subdivision, and elects to register in lieu of the importer as the manufacturer for those products; or (F) manufactures or manufactured covered electronic devices, supplies them to any person or persons within a distribution network that includes wholesalers or retailers in this state, and benefits from the sale in this state of those covered electronic devices through such distribution network;
(8) “Manufacturer's brands” means a manufacturer's name, brand name or brand label, and all manufacturer's names, brand names and brand labels for which the manufacturer has legal responsibility, including those names, brand names and brand labels of companies that have been acquired by the manufacturer;
(9) “Monitor” means a separate video display component of a computer that does not contain a tuner, whether sold separately or together with a computer central processing unit or computer box, and includes a cathode ray tube, liquid crystal display, gas plasma, digital light processing or other image projection technology greater than four inches when measured diagonally, and its case, interior wires and circuitry;
(10) “Person” means an individual, trust firm, joint stock company, business concern and corporation, including, but not limited to, a government department, partnership, limited liability company or association;
(11) “Portable computer” means a computer and video display greater than four inches in size that can be carried as one unit by an individual, including, but not limited to, a laptop computer;
(12) “Purchase” means the taking, by sale, of title in exchange for consideration;
(13) “Recycling” means any process by which covered electronic devices that would otherwise become solid waste or hazardous waste are collected, separated and processed to be returned to use in the form of raw materials or products, in accordance with environmental standards established by the department;
(14) “Registrant” means a manufacturer or group of manufacturers of covered electronic devices that is, or who are, in compliance with the requirements of sections 22a-629 to 22a-640, inclusive;
(15) “Retail sales” includes sales of products through sales outlets, via the Internet, mail order or other means, whether or not the seller has a physical presence in this state;
(16) “Retailer” means a person who owns or operates a business that sells new covered electronic devices in this state by any means to a consumer;
(17) “Sell” or “sale” means any transfer of title for consideration, including, but not limited to, transactions conducted through sales outlets, catalogs or the Internet, or any other similar electronic means, and excluding leases;
(18) “Television” means a stand-alone display system containing a CRT or any other type of display primarily intended to receive video programming via broadcast, having a viewable area greater than four inches when measured diagonally, able to adhere to standard consumer video formats such as PAL, SECAM, NTSC, ATSC and HDTV and having the capability of selecting different broadcast channels and supporting sound capability;
(19) “Video display” means an output surface having a viewable area greater than four inches when measured diagonally that displays moving graphical images or a visual representation of image sequences or pictures, showing a number of quickly changing images on a screen in fast succession to create the illusion of motion, including, but not limited to, a device that is an integral part of the display that cannot be easily removed from the display by the consumer and that produces the moving image on the screen and includes technology using a cathode ray tube, liquid crystal display, gas plasma, digital light processing or other image projection technology;
(20) “Orphan device” means a covered electronic device, excluding CRT-based televisions and non-CRT-based televisions, for which no manufacturer, as defined in this section, can be identified or for which the manufacturer is no longer in business and has no successor in interest; and
(21) “Market share” means a manufacturer's national sales of a particular product category of CEDs expressed as a percentage of the total of all manufacturers' national sales for such product category of CEDs.
(P.A. 07-189, S. 1; P.A. 08-35, S. 1–3; 08-124, S. 35–37; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 08-35 made a technical change in Subdiv. (7), redefined “orphan device” in Subdiv. (20) to exclude CRT-based and non-CRT-based televisions and redefined “market share” in Subdiv. (21) to add references to product category; P.A. 08-124 made technical changes in Subdivs. (4), (7) and (18), effective June 2, 2008; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” and “Department of Environmental Protection” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection” and “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.