455D.16 Mercury — thermostats.
1. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, “mercury-added 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. “Mercury-added thermostat” includes thermostats used to sense and control room temperature in residential, commercial, industrial, and other buildings but does not include thermostats used to sense and control temperature as part of a manufacturing process.
2. A person shall not sell, offer for sale, or install a mercury-added thermostat in this state.
3. Except as otherwise provided, a person who generates a discarded mercury-added thermostat shall manage the mercury-added thermostat as a hazardous waste or universal hazardous waste, according to all applicable state and federal regulations. A contractor who replaces or removes mercury-added thermostats shall assure that any discarded mercury-added thermostat is subject to proper separation and management as hazardous waste or universal hazardous waste. A contractor who replaces a mercury-added thermostat in a residence shall deliver the mercury-added thermostat to an appropriate collection location for recycling.
2008 Acts, ch 1168, §1; 2015 Acts, ch 29, §60; 2018 Acts, ch 1023, §8; 2019 Acts, ch 59, §142; 2019 Acts, ch 131, §37
Subsection 1, paragraphs a, c, and d stricken pursuant to their own terms effective January 1, 2022, and former paragraph b editorially combined with and designated as unnumbered paragraph 1
Subsections 4 – 8 stricken pursuant to their own terms effective January 1, 2022
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 455D - WASTE VOLUME REDUCTION AND RECYCLING
Section 455D.3 - Goals for waste stream reduction — procedures — reductions and increases in fees.
Section 455D.4 - Waste volume reduction policies.
Section 455D.5 - Statewide waste reduction and recycling network — established.
Section 455D.6 - Duties of the director.
Section 455D.7 - Duties of the commission.
Section 455D.8 - Deposits, rebates, and waste abatement fees.
Section 455D.9 - Land disposal of yard waste — prohibited.
Section 455D.9A - Disposal of baled solid waste at a sanitary landfill — prohibited.
Section 455D.10 - Land disposal of lead acid batteries — prohibited — collection for recycling.
Section 455D.10A - Household batteries — heavy metal content and recycling requirements.
Section 455D.10B - Batteries used in rechargeable consumer products.
Section 455D.11 - Waste tires — land disposal prohibited.
Section 455D.11A - Financial assurance — waste tire collection or processing sites.
Section 455D.11B - Permitting of waste tire collection or processing sites — fees.
Section 455D.11C - Waste tire management fund.
Section 455D.11D - Waste tire management — grant program.
Section 455D.11F - End-users awarded moneys for using processed waste tires.
Section 455D.11G - Waste tire disposal fees and abatement costs.
Section 455D.11H - Future repeal.
Section 455D.11I - Registration of waste tire haulers — bond.
Section 455D.12 - Plastic container labeling.
Section 455D.14 - Products manufactured with chlorofluorocarbons prohibited.
Section 455D.15 - Waste volume reduction and recycling fund.
Section 455D.15A - Permitting of waste conversion technologies operations — fees.
Section 455D.16 - Mercury — thermostats.
Section 455D.19 - Packaging — heavy metal content.
Section 455D.20 - Refuse-derived fuel — calculation as portion of waste reduction goal.
Section 455D.21 - Local ordinance — curbside collection.
Section 455D.22 - Civil penalty.
Section 455D.23 - Administrative enforcement — compliance orders.
Section 455D.24 - Judicial review.