E Z Peaces wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
Here's just one example of the Draconian regulations: All books
published before 1986 are PRESUMED to contain lead. This means that
ALL children's books published more than twenty years ago: a) Have
to be removed from library shelves, and b) either destroyed or
tested for lead. Inasmuch as lead testing for a single book is
expensive, the only option is the first. Oh, yeah, the books cannot be
sold.
No second-hand stuff must be tested. It's not supposed to be sold if
there's reason to believe it exceeds limits, but there are no
penalties.
The ban is not on "selling" it is on "distributing" which includes selling,
donating, loaning, trading, or any other transfer. As for penalties:
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SEC. 214. PROHIBITION ON SALE OF RECALLED PRODUCTS.
Section 19(a) (as amended by section 210) (15 U.S.C. 2068(a)) is further
amended--
(1) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
`(1) sell, offer for sale, manufacture for sale, distribute in commerce, or
import into the United States any consumer product, or other product or
substance that is regulated under any other Act enforced by the Commission,
that is--
`(A) not in conformity with an applicable consumer product safety standard
under this Act, or any similar rule under any such other Act;
`(B) subject to voluntary corrective action taken by the manufacturer, in
consultation with the Commission, of which action the Commission has
notified the public;
`(C) subject to an order issued under section 12 or 15 of this Act; or
`(D) designated a banned hazardous substance under the Federal Hazardous
Substances Act (15 U.S.C. 1261 et seq.);';
(2) by striking `or' after the semicolon in paragraph (7);
(3) by striking `and' after the semicolon in paragraph (8); and
(4) by striking `insulation).' in paragraph (9) and inserting
`insulation);'.
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If you chase all the statutes and amendments, you'll find the maximum civil
penalty to be $1,250,000.00 or imprisonment up to one year.
It has nothing to do with libraries unless libraries are selling
books. If the law is changed to prohibit lending, it will be about
books more than 25 years old. I used to work in the children's department
of an old municipal library. We had nothing 25 years old. I don't
remember anything even 10 years old. Children are rough on library
books.
Nope:
"In the District [of Columbia], the law means that more than a sixth --
110,000 of 650,000 -- of the children's books on the shelves might have to
be removed. And in these tight financial times, replacing those books could
be a serious problem."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2009032302266