§ 20-27-205 - Label required. - Arkansas Statutes

20-27-205. Label required.

No person shall sell, offer for sale, deliver, consign for sale, or have in his or her possession with intent to sell, offer for sale, deliver, or consign for sale any article of bedding unless the bedding is labeled as follows:

(1) (A) Upon each of the articles of bedding, there shall be securely sewed upon the outside thereof a label upon which shall be legibly written or printed, in the English language, the names of the materials used as the filling of the article of bedding.

(B) If all the material used as the filling of the article of bedding shall not have been previously used, the words "manufactured of new material" shall appear upon the label together with the name and address of the maker of the bedding.

(C) If any of the material used in the making or remaking of the article of bedding shall have been previously used, the words "manufactured of previously used material" or "remade of previously used materials", as the case may be, shall appear upon the label, together with the name and address of the maker thereof and also a description of the material used in the filling of the article of bedding.

(D) Any article of bedding not remade but which has been used shall be labeled "second-hand";

(2) The label required by this section shall be muslin or linen and not less than two inches by three inches (2'' x 3'') in size;

(3) The statement required under this section shall be in the form as follows:

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(4) The words "manufactured of new material" or "remade of previously used material", "second-hand", or "materials used in filling not known", together with the description of the material used as the filling of an article of bedding shall be in letters not less than one-eighth inch (1/8'') in height;

(5) The sewing of one (1) edge of the label securely into an outside seam of any article of bedding shall be deemed a compliance with that portion of the subchapter requiring that the label be securely sewed upon the article. This label shall contain all the statements required by this subchapter and shall be securely sewed to the ticking or cover of every article of bedding to be manufactured before the filling material has been placed inside the ticking or cover; and

(6) No term or description likely to mislead shall be used on any label required by this subchapter in the description of the materials used in the filling of any article of bedding.