421.005. Definitions.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Definitions.

421.005. For purposes of sections 421.005 to 421.038, the followingterms mean:

(1) "Bedding", any mattress, box springs, foundation or studio couchmade, in whole or part of, new or secondhand fabric, filling materials, orother materials, which can be used for sleeping or reclining purposes. Theterm "bedding" does not include any component from which bedding is made;

(2) "Department", the department of health and senior services;

(3) "Director", director of the department of health and seniorservices;

(4) "Manufacture", the making of bedding out of new material;

(5) "New material", any fabric, filling material, other material orarticle of bedding that has not been previously used for any purpose,including by-products of any textile or manufacturing process that are freefrom dirt, insects and other contamination;

(6) "Person", an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, limitedliability company, corporation, joint venture, association, trust and anyother entity and the agents, servants and employees of any of them;

(7) "Renovator", a person that repairs, makes over, recovers, restores,sanitizes, germicidally treats, cleans or renews bedding;

(8) "Sanitizer", a person that sanitizes, germicidally treats or cleans,but does not otherwise alter, any fabric, filling material, other materials,or article of bedding for use in manufacturing or renovating bedding;

(9) "Secondhand material", any fabric, filling material, other material,or article of bedding that has been previously used for any purpose or isderived from postconsumer or industrial waste and that may be used in place ofnew material in manufacturing or renovating bedding;

(10) "Seller", includes a person that offers or exposes for sale,barters, trades, delivers, consigns, leases, possesses with intent to sell, ordisposes of bedding in any commercial manner at the wholesale, retail or otherlevel of trade.