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SECTION 1371
Manufacture and sale of lead painted toys and furniture
Public Health (PBH) CHAPTER 45, ARTICLE 13, TITLE 10
§ 1371. Manufacture and sale of lead painted toys and furniture. 1. No
person shall manufacture, sell or hold for sale a children's toy or
children's furniture having paint or other similar surface-coating
material thereon containing more than .06 of one per centum of metallic
lead based on the total weight of the contained solids or dried paint
film.

2. The commissioner of health may waive the provisions of this section
in whole or in part upon a finding by the commissioner in a particular
instance that there is no significant threat to the public health; with
respect to miniatures the commissioner shall do so, on terms and
conditions he or she shall establish, upon a final judicial or
administrative finding that there is no immediate public health threat
in that instance.