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March 2027
1 changeMaine (US state)Conformity required for A producer in a Maine battery stewardship program sells a product with an embedded (not easily removable) battery only if it gives the program operator, each year, the product description, battery chemistry and type, and the battery's UPCMaine · Maine battery stewardship program (38 M.R.S. 1617, PL 2025 c. 608) · Batteries, Electronics
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Applies to products sold on or after 1 Mar 2027. Applies when: Contains a battery; It contains an embedded battery (a portable battery or medium format battery that is contained within a battery-containing product and that is not intended or designed to be easily removable from the product, 38 M.R.S. 1617(1)(M)), and you are the producer participating in a battery stewardship program (1617(2)(B)).
Stated: “Beginning March 1, 2027” (1617(2)(B)); “This paragraph is repealed January 1, 2030.” From then embedded batteries are covered batteries (1617(1)(I)(1)).
“Beginning March 1, 2027, a producer participating in a battery stewardship program under this section may not sell, offer for sale or distribute for sale in or into the State a battery-containing product that contains an embedded battery unless the producer annually provides to the operator of the battery stewardship program for inclusion in the report required pursuant to subsection 8 the information for that embedded battery and product required pursuant to subsection 8, paragraph C.”
38 M.R.S. 1617(2)(B) · fetched 2026-10-27Maine Revisor of Statutes: 38 M.R.S. 1617(2)(B)(opens in a new tab)
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