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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 63. PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY

  § 63-1-1001.3. Definitions.  

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  • As used in the Oklahoma Bedding Regulation Act:

    1.  "Bedding" means any mattress, upholstered spring, sleeping bag, pad, comforter, cushion, pillow and any other item used principally for sleeping.  The term "bedding" also includes dual purpose furniture such as studio couches, futons and sofa beds;

    2.  "Mattress" includes padding or cushioning material which is used in conjunction with water bed liners, bladders or cylinders, but does not include water bed liners, bladders or cylinders;

    3.  "Itinerant vendor" means a person who sells bedding from a movable conveyance;

    4.  "Manufacture" means the making of bedding out of new or recycled materials;

    5.  "New material" means any material or article that has not been used for any other purpose;

    6.  "Previously used material" means any material which previously has been used for any purpose other than for the manufacture of bedding;

    7.  "Recycled material" means materials which have previously been used for purposes other than as a component of bedding or bedding materials, and which can be used, after processing, for bedding materials.  Such processing shall result in a sanitary material which can be used safely as a bedding material without the germicidal treatment used for secondhand materials.  Properly recycled materials shall be considered new materials;

    8.  "Renovate" means the reworking or remaking of used bedding or the making of bedding from previously used materials;

    9.  "Sanitize" means germicidal treatment of secondhand bedding or previously used materials to be used in renovating for the destruction of pathogenic microorganisms and arthropods and the removal of dirt and filth;

    10.  "Secondhand bedding" means any bedding of which prior use has been made as bedding;

    11.  "Sell" or "sold" means to sell, offer to sell, give away in connection with a sale, a sale's promotion or sale by consignment; or possess with intent to sell, deliver or consign in sale; and

    12.  "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Health.

Added by Laws 1996, c. 51, § 3, eff. July 1, 1996.