Assembly Bill No. 301–Assemblyman Lee

 

March 8, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining

 

SUMMARY—Repeals provisions relating to woolen products. (BDR 51‑1144)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: No.

                                    Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to woolen products; repealing provisions that require a manufacturer or seller of products containing or purporting to contain wool to label those products; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1    Section 1. NRS 589.010, 589.020, 589.030, 589.040, 589.050 and

1-2  589.060 are hereby repealed.

 

1-3  TEXT OF REPEALED SECTIONS

 

1-4    589.010  “Virgin wool” defined. As used in this chapter, “virgin

1-5   wool” is wool that previous to its use in the article required to be labeled

1-6   under this chapter has never been spun, woven or knitted into any other

1-7   yarn, fabric or cloth than that composing the article.

1-8    589.020  Labeling of woolen goods by manufacturer or seller

1-9   required; form of label.

1-10    1.  Every person, firm or corporation who shall manufacture for sale, or

1-11   have in his or its possession for the purpose of sale, or who shall sell or

1-12   offer for sale, in this state, any yarn, cloth, fabric, garment, or article of

1-13   apparel containing wool or purporting to contain wool, or who shall

1-14   display in this state any sample of yarn, cloth, fabric, garment, or article of

1-15   apparel containing wool or purporting to contain wool, for the purpose of

1-16   soliciting orders for the sale of yarn, cloth, fabric, garments, or articles of

1-17   apparel, shall place thereon a conspicuous label showing the true character

1-18   and

2-1  quantity of the wool content thereof, which label shall be in a clear, legible,

2-2  boldface type, and shall be in one of the four following forms:

2-3    (a) “This article is composed of all virgin wool.”

2-4    (b) “This article contains not less than ........ percent virgin wool.”

2-5    (c) “This article contains no virgin wool.”

2-6    (d) “The manufacturer and wholesale vendor of this article upon request

2-7   have refused to give information as to the true quantity of the virgin wool

2-8   content of this article.”

2-9    2.  Each form of the label when used as provided in this chapter shall

2-10   be followed by the name of the person, firm or corporation placing the

2-11   same on the labeled article, printed in clear, legible, boldface type.

2-12    589.030  Percentage of virgin wool to be filled in blank on label. If

2-13   any article is labeled in the form indicated in paragraph (b) of subsection 1

2-14   of NRS 589.020, the blank in such form shall be filled in with some

2-15   certain percentage.

2-16    589.040  Labeling of garment containing lining or trimming. In

2-17   labeling any garment or article of apparel which contains lining, facing or

2-18   trimming, or silk yarn used solely for decorative purposes, the label

2-19   required to be placed thereon shall not be taken to refer, and shall not

2-20   refer, to the lining or facing or trimming, or yarn used solely for decorative

2-21   purposes, or the percentage or percentages of wool contained therein.

2-22    589.050  Chapter not applicable to secondhand garments. This

2-23   chapter shall not be construed as applying to or requiring the labeling of:

2-24    1.  Used, worn and secondhand garments.

2-25    2.  Used, worn and secondhand articles of apparel.

2-26    3.  Rags.

2-27    589.060  Penalties.

2-28    1.  Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any part of this

2-29   chapter, or who shall by label, as required by this chapter, state that the

2-30   labeled article contains a greater percentage or greater amount of virgin

2-31   wool than it does in fact contain, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

2-32    2.  If any article is possessed for the purpose of sale, sold or offered for

2-33   sale, or any sample is displayed, as provided in this chapter, bearing either

2-34   of the labels described in paragraphs (a) or (b) of subsection 1 of NRS

2-35   589.020, and such label is so placed thereon by the retail dealer and does

2-36   correspond to written or printed information obtained in good faith by the

2-37   retail dealer from the manufacturer, jobber or wholesaler thereof, certified

2-38   as true and correct over the signature of such manufacturer, jobber or

2-39   wholesaler, and such certified information is produced on the trial, then

2-40   the person, firm or corporation possessing for sale, selling, offering for

2-41   sale, or displaying the articles so labeled for the purpose aforesaid, shall

2-42   not be guilty of a violation of this chapter if the label is proven false; but

2-43   the manufacturer, jobber or wholesaler supplying such false certified,

2-44   written or printed information regarding the character and quantity of the

2-45   wool content of such article as described in this subsection shall be

2-46   deemed a violator of this chapter and liable to all the penalties herein

2-47   prescribed.

 

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