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HB1585 Engrossed |
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LRB094 10116 RSP 40377 b |
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| AN ACT concerning safety.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the |
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| Arsenic in School Playgrounds Act.
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| Section 5. Purpose. The General Assembly finds that wooden |
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| playground equipment in this State is often treated with the |
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| pesticide chromated copper arsenate, which acts as a chemical |
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| preservative that protects wood from rotting due to insects and |
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| microbial agents, and that the children of this State may be |
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| exposed to the arsenic in chromated copper arsenate when the |
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| children play on playground equipment treated with this |
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| compound.
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| Section 10. New playground equipment. On and after January |
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| 1, 2006 no unit of local government or school district within |
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| this State shall construct or install any new playground |
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| equipment treated or containing the pesticide chromated copper |
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| arsenate.
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