Section 10. Definitions

The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall have the following meanings:

"Board" means the Virginia Waste Management Board.

"Demolition" means the flattening, crushing, baling, shredding, dismantling or other processing of end-of-life vehicles for the purpose of recycling or reselling scrap metal.

"Department" means the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.

"Director" means the Director of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.

"End-of-life vehicle" means a vehicle manufactured for the 2002 model year or preceding model years that is sold, given, assigned, or otherwise conveyed to a vehicle demolisher for the purpose of resale of its parts or recycling.

"Manufacturer" means an entity that is the last entity in the production or assembly process of vehicles that used one or more mercury switches or, in the case of an imported vehicle, the importer or domestic distributor of the vehicle. "Manufacturer" does not include any person or entity engaged in the business of selling new vehicles at retail or converting or modifying new vehicles after the production or assembly process.

"Mercury switch" means each mercury-containing capsule, commonly known as a "bullet," that is part of a convenience light switch assembly in a vehicle.

"National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program" means a program implemented pursuant to the August 11, 2006, Memorandum of Understanding to Establish the National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program, as amended, between the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the parties referenced therein to provide for management of mercury switches from end-of-life vehicles.

"Scrap metal processor" means any entity that from a fixed location, utilizes machinery and equipment for processing and manufacturing iron, steel and nonferrous metallic scrap into prepared grades and whose principal product is scrap iron, scrap steel or nonferrous metallic scrap for sale for remelting or recycling purposes.

"Vehicle" means any passenger automobile or car, station wagon, truck, van, trailer or sport utility vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of less than 12,000 pounds.

"Vehicle demolisher" means a Scrap Metal Processor or an individual or entity engaged in the business of demolition of end-of-life vehicles within the Commonwealth.

Historical Notes

Derived from Volume 23, Issue 11, eff. March 21, 2007.

Statutory Authority

§ 10.1-1402 of the Code of Virginia.