California · Health and Safety Code - HSC

HSC §19820: (a) No person shall sell, or offer for sale, new children’s sleepwear to and including size 14 which does not meet federal flammability standards for children’s sleepwear to and including size 6X, and

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

It is illegal to sell new children's sleepwear (up to size 14) that fails to meet federal flammability standards. Violations are misdemeanors.

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(a) No person shall sell, or offer for sale, new children’s sleepwear to and including size 14 which does not meet federal flammability standards for children’s sleepwear to and including size 6X, and such other standards as may from time to time be adopted by the federal government. The requirements prescribed by this chapter shall be in addition to those prescribed by Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 19810). (b) Violation of subdivision (a) is a misdemeanor. (c) The State Fire Marshal shall promulgate, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (commencing with Section 11340 of the Government Code), flammability regulations covering such other articles of new children’s clothing to and including size 14 as it shall determine to be in the public interest. (d) Violation of any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to subdivision (c) is a misdemeanor.

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