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PROPOSED SECOND SUBSTITUTE TO FILE #23-5769
PROPOSED ORDINANCE
COAL TAR SEALANT BAN
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that CHAPTER 30, ENVIRONMENT, ARTICLE VIII, COAL TAR SEALANT BAN, Sections 30-973 through 30-976 of the Cook County Code is hereby enacted as Follows:
Sec. 30-973 - Title, purpose, and scope.
(a) This Article shall be known and may be cited as the Coal Tar Sealant Ban and shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its purposes and policies.
(b) The purpose of this Article, and the policy of the County, is to ban the retail sale of coal tar sealant products and the application and/or use of coal tar sealant products in Cook County.
(c) The Ordinance is subject to the home rule as established by the Constitution of the State of Illinois Article VII, Section 6, Powers of Home Rule Units. This article bans the sale and commercial application of Coal Tar Sealants within the boundaries of Cook County as defined in Section 30-3.
Sec. 30-974 - Definitions
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Coal tar means a viscous substance obtained by the destructive distillation of coal and containing levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in excess of 10,000 milligrams per kilogram. "Coal tar" includes, but is not limited to coal tar, coal tar pitch, coal tar derivatives, coal tar pitch volatiles, coal tar mixtures or any variation assigned to the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) numbers 65996-93-2, 65996-89-6, or 8007- 45-2.
Coal tar sealant product means a surface applied sealant product that contains coal tar or coal tar pitch volatiles, or a product labelled as such.
Commercial Entity means a business, partnership, firm, trust, corporation, or limited liability company.
Sec. 30-975 - Coal Tar Sealant Ban
(a) No commercial entity shall sell at retail in Co...
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