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20-27-208. Reuse of mattresses from hospitals, hotels, etc., prohibited — Exception.
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20-27-208. Reuse of mattresses from hospitals, hotels, etc., prohibited — Exception.
(a) It shall be unlawful and punishable by the provisions of this subchapter for any person, firm, or corporation, or their agents, to use or cause to be used in the manufacture or renovation of mattresses materials of any description, in whole or part, that have been used in or about any public or private hospital or sanatorium for the treatment of any infectious or contagious disease, or materials obtained from mattresses from hotels, rooming houses, boardinghouses, and other public buildings where mattresses have been used for their original purpose.
(b) This section shall not prevent the use of materials as prohibited in § 20-27-209 when they have been thoroughly sterilized by a method of sterilization approved or adopted by the State Board of Health. In that event, the mattress shall be labeled as indicated in § 20-27-205, as may apply.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-27-208
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20-27-208. Reuse of mattresses from hospitals, hotels, etc., prohibited — Exception.
(a) It shall be unlawful and punishable by the provisions of this subchapter for any person, firm, or corporation, or their agents, to use or cause to be used in the manufacture or renovation of mattresses materials of any description, in whole or part, that have been used in or about any public or private hospital or sanatorium for the treatment of any infectious or contagious disease, or materials obtained from mattresses from hotels, rooming houses, boardinghouses, and other public buildings where mattresses have been used for their original purpose.
(b) This section shall not prevent the use of materials as prohibited in § 20-27-209 when they have been thoroughly sterilized by a method of sterilization approved or adopted by the State Board of Health. In that event, the mattress shall be labeled as indicated in § 20-27-205, as may apply.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
20-27-205. Label required.
No person shall sell, offer for sale, deliver, consign for sale, or have in his or her possession with intent to sell, offer for sale, deliver, or consign for sale any article of bedding unless the bedding is labeled as follows:
(1)(A) Upon each of the articles of bedding, there shall be securely sewed upon the outside thereof a label upon which shall be legibly written or printed, in the English language, the names of the materials used as the filling of the article of bedding.
(B) If all the material used as the filling of the article of bedding shall not have been previously used, the words “manufactured of new material” shall appear upon the label together with the name and address of the maker of the bedding.
(C) If any of the material used in the making or remaking of the article of bedding shall have been previously used, the words “manufactured of previously used material” or “remade of previously used materials”, as the case may be, shall appear upon the label, together with the name and address of the maker thereof and also a description of the material used in the filling of the article of bedding.
(D) Any article of bedding not remade but which has been used shall be labeled “second-hand”;
(2) The label required by this section shall be muslin or linen and not less than two inches by three inches (2" x 3") in size;
(3) The statement required under this section shall be in the form as follows:
“Manufactured of new material Materials used in filling Made by Address ”;
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(4) The words “manufactured of new material” or “remade of previously used material”, “second-hand”, or “materials used in filling not known”, together with the description of the material used as the filling of an article of bedd
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-27-205
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-27-205. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
20-27-209. [Repealed.]
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-27-209
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: repealed. The source passage cites 20-27-209. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.