US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    * § 6-301  Definitions.  a. For the purposes of this chapter only, the
  following terms shall have the following meaning:
    (1) "Agricultural  wastes"  means  materials  that  remain  after  the
  harvesting  or  production of annual crops, including but not limited to
  rice, flax, wheat and rye.
    (2) "Architectural coatings"  means  any  coating  to  be  applied  to
  stationary   structures   and   their   appurtenances  at  the  site  of
  installation, to portable buildings at  the  site  of  installation,  to
  pavements,  or  to  curbs.  This  term  shall not include the following:
  marine-based paints and coatings; coatings or materials to be applied to
  metal structures, such as bridges; or coatings or materials labeled  and
  formulated for application in roadway maintenance activities.
    (3)  "Capital  project"  means a capital project as defined in section
  210 of the charter that is paid for in whole or in part  from  the  city
  treasury.
    (4)  "Carpet" means any fabric used as a floor covering, but such term
  shall not include artificial turf.
    (5) "Carpet adhesive" means any substance used to adhere carpet  to  a
  floor by surface attachment.
    (6) "Carpet cushion" means any kind of material placed under carpet to
  provide softness when it is walked upon.
    (7)  "Cathode  ray  tube"  means  any  vacuum tube, typically found in
  computer monitors, televisions and oscilloscopes, in  which  a  beam  of
  electrons is projected on a phosphorescent screen.
    (8) "City's environmental purchasing standards" or "city environmental
  purchasing  standard"  means any standards set forth in this chapter and
  any directives, guidelines or rules promulgated by the director.
    (9)  "Composite   wood   or   agrifiber   products"   means   plywood,
  particleboard,    chipboard,   medium   density   fiberboard,   standard
  fiberboard, orient strand board, glulams, wheatboard or strawboard.
    (10) "Construction work" means any work  or  operations  necessary  or
  incidental  to the erection, demolition, assembling or alteration of any
  building, but such term shall not include minor repairs.
    (11) "Contractor" means any  person  or  entity  that  enters  into  a
  contract  with  any  agency, or any person or entity that enters into an
  agreement with such person or entity, to perform work or  provide  labor
  or services related to such contract.
    (12)  "Copier"  means  any  device  that makes paper copies of text or
  graphic material.
    (13) "Covered electronic device" means: (i) any cathode ray tube,  any
  product containing a cathode ray tube, any liquid crystal display (LCD),
  plasma  screen  or  other  flat  panel television or computer monitor or
  similar video display product, any  battery  containing  lead,  cadmium,
  lithium  or  silver,  any computer central processing unit that contains
  one or more circuit boards and includes  any  desktop  computer  or  any
  laptop computer, any computer peripherals including, but not limited to,
  any  keyboard,  mouse  and  other  pointing  device,  printer,  scanner,
  facsimile machine and card reader, and any copier, but not including any
  automobile, household appliance, large piece of commercial or industrial
  equipment containing a cathode ray tube, a cathode ray tube  product,  a
  flat  panel  display  or  similar video display device that is contained
  within, and is not separate from, the larger piece of equipment, or  any
  device   used  by  emergency  response  personnel;  or  (ii)  any  other
  electronic device designated by the director.
    (14) "CPG" means the Comprehensive Procurement Guideline for  Products
  Containing  Recovered Materials, as set forth in part 247 of title 40 of
  the United States code of federal regulations.

    (15) "Desktop computer" means any  personal  computer  or  workstation
  designed  to  operate only on alternating current power and to reside on
  or under a desktop.
    (16)  "Desktop-derived  server" means any computer designed to provide
  services to other computers on a network and that contains an EPS12V  or
  EPS1U form factor power supply.
    (17)   "Director"   means   the  director  of  citywide  environmental
  purchasing.
    (18) "Electronic product environmental assessment tool" means  a  tool
  for  evaluating  the  environmental  performance  of electronic products
  throughout their life cycle developed  by  the  federal  government  and
  other stakeholders.
    (19)  "End-of-life  management" means promoting the recycling or reuse
  of a product through features of the product or materials from which the
  product is manufactured.
    (20) "ENERGY STAR labeled"  means  a  designation  indicating  that  a
  product  meets  the  energy efficiency standards set forth by the United
  States environmental protection agency and the United States  department
  of energy for compliance with the ENERGY STAR program.
    (21)  "Flow  rate"  means the volume, mass, or weight of water flowing
  past a given point per unit of time.
    (22) "Green cleaning product"  means  any  environmentally  preferable
  cleaning  product  whose  use has been determined to be feasible through
  the pilot program established pursuant  to  the  local  law  that  added
  subchapter 6 of this chapter or through any other testing and evaluation
  conducted by the director.
    (23)  "Hazardous  substance"  means any substance that, because of its
  quantity, concentration, or physical or chemical characteristics,  poses
  a  significant present or potential hazard to human health and safety or
  to the environment if released into the workplace or the environment.
    (24) "Incandescent lamp" means any lamp in which a filament is  heated
  to incandescence by an electric current to produce visible light.
    (25)  "Lamp" means any glass envelope with a gas, coating, or filament
  that produces visible light when electricity is applied, but  such  term
  shall not include automotive light bulbs.
    (26)  "Local  area  network"  means  any  two  or  more  computers and
  associated devices that share a common communications line  or  wireless
  link  and  typically share the resources of a single processor or server
  within a small geographic area.
    (27) "Minor repairs" means replacement of any part of a  building  for
  which  a permit issued by the department of buildings is not required by
  law, where the purpose and effect of such  work  or  replacement  is  to
  correct  any deterioration or decay of or damage to such building or any
  part thereof and to restore same, as nearly as may  be  practicable,  to
  its  condition  prior  to the occurrence of such deterioration, decay or
  damage.
    (28) "Persistent, bioaccumulative and  toxic  chemicals"  means  those
  chemicals that are toxic to living organisms, persist in the environment
  and  build  up  in  the  food  chain.  This definition shall include any
  substance on the United States environmental protection agency's list of
  priority  chemicals  published  under  the  national   partnership   for
  environmental priorities, as well as hexavalent chromium, polybrominated
  biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers.
    (29) "Postconsumer material" means a material or finished product that
  has  served  its  intended  use  and has been diverted or recovered from
  waste destined for disposal, having completed its  life  as  a  consumer
  item.  Postconsumer  material  is  a  part  of  the  broader category of
  recovered materials.

    (30) "Power supply" means any device intended to convert line  voltage
  alternating current to one or more lower voltages of direct current.
    (31)  "Printer"  means  any  device  that  prints the text or graphics
  output of a computer onto paper.
    (32) "Reasonably competitive" means  at  a  cost  not  exceeding  that
  permissible under section 104-a of the general municipal law.
    (33)  "Recovered  material" means waste materials and byproducts which
  have been recovered or diverted from solid waste, but such term does not
  include those materials and  byproducts  generated  from,  and  commonly
  reused  within,  an  original  manufacturing  process.  For  purposes of
  purchasing paper  and  paper  products,  "recovered  material"  includes
  "post-consumer  recovered  paper" and "recovered materials, for purposes
  of purchasing paper and paper products", as those terms are  defined  in
  the CPG.
    (34)  "Recycled  product"  shall  mean  recycled product as defined in
  section 104-a of the general municipal law.
    (35)  "Volatile  organic  compound"  means  any  compound  of  carbon,
  excluding  carbon  monoxide,  carbon  dioxide,  carbonic  acid, metallic
  carbides or carbonates, and ammonium carbonate,  which  participates  in
  atmospheric  photochemical  reactions,  as  specified  in part 51.100 of
  chapter 40 of the United States code of federal regulations.
    * NB Effective January 1, 2007