US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    * § 6-310 Paper waste reduction. a. Any printer purchased or leased by
  any agency that can print at a rate of twenty pages or faster per minute
  or  that  is  considered  a  local  area  network printer shall have the
  capacity to print double-sided. Any copier purchased or  leased  by  any
  agency  that  can  print  at a rate of twenty pages or faster per minute
  shall have the capacity to print double-sided and shall perform  equally
  well   with   paper  containing  postconsumer  material  as  with  paper
  containing no postconsumer material.
    b. Notwithstanding section 6-302 of  this  chapter,  this  subdivision
  shall  apply  to any printer or copier purchased or leased by any agency
  after January 1, 2007 and, to the extent practicable, to any printer  or
  copier  purchased  or leased by any agency before such date. The default
  parameters of any printer with the capacity to print  double-sided,  and
  any  computer  that  utilizes such printer, shall be set to duplex mode,
  such that the printer prints double-sided pages. The default  parameters
  of  any  copier  with  the  capacity to print double-sided for which the
  default parameters can be adjusted, shall be set to  duplex  mode,  such
  that  the copier places images on both sides of a copy sheet, performing
  one-sided to two-sided copying, and two-sided to two-sided copying.
    * NB Effective January 1, 2007