As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
INDUSTRIAL CLEANING EQUIPMENT
Machinery and other tools used in cleaning processes during
the course of industrial manufacturing, production and assembly.
MACHINE DISHWASHER
Equipment manufactured for the purpose of cleaning dishes,
glassware and other utensils involved in food preparation, consumption
or use, using a combination of water agitation and high temperatures.
PERSON
Includes any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association,
company or organization of any kind.
POLYPHOSPHATE BUILDER or PHOSPHORUS
A water-softening and soil-suspending agent made from condensed
phosphates, including pyrophosphates, triphosphates, tripolyphosphates,
metaphosphates and glassy phosphates, used as a detergent ingredient,
but shall not include polyphosphate builders or phosphorus which is
essential for medical, scientific or special engineering use under
such conditions and regulations as may be prescribed, after hearing,
by the Health Commissioner.
RECOMMENDED USE LEVEL
The amount of synthetic detergent or detergent which the
manufacturer thereof recommends for use per wash load, at which level
said synthetic detergent or detergent will effectively perform its
intended function.
SYNTHETIC DETERGENT or DETERGENT
Any cleaning compound which is available for household use,
laundry use, other personal uses or inorganic compounds, including
soaps, water softeners, surface-active agents, dispersing agents,
foaming agents, buffering agents, builders, fillers, dyes, enzymes
and fabric softeners, whether in the form of crystals, powders, flakes,
bars, liquids, sprays, or any other form.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
sell, offer or expose for sale, give or furnish any synthetic detergent
or detergent whether in the form of crystals, powders, flakes, bars,
liquids, sprays, or any other form in the County of Dutchess from
and after September 1, 1971, unless the container, wrapper or other
packaging thereof shall be clearly labeled with respect to its polyphosphate
builder or phosphorus ingredient content clearly and legibly set forth
thereon in terms of percentage of phosphorus by weight expressed as
elemental phosphorus per container, wrapper or other packaging thereof,
as well as grams of phosphorus expressed as elemental phosphorus,
per recommended use level.
Any person violating any provision of this article shall be
deemed guilty of a violation as defined in § 10.00 of the
Penal Law of the State of New York and subject to a fine of not more
than $250 or imprisonment for a term not to exceed 15 days, or both
such fine and imprisonment.
For the violation of any of the provisions of this article by
any person, Dutchess County may impose a civil penalty in the amount
of $50 for each offense.
Dutchess County may maintain an action or proceeding in any
court of competent jurisdiction to compel compliance with or restrain
any violation of this article.