Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 19, September 20, 2024
A. In this chapter,
the following words have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "Environmentally preferable purchasing"
means the procurement or acquisition of goods and services that have a lesser
or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared with
competing goods or services that serve the same purpose, based on the raw
materials, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, use, reuse, operation,
maintenance, and disposal of the goods or services.
(1-1) "Environmentally preferable product or service" means a
product or service that, throughout the full life cycle of the product or
service:
(a) Is energy efficient, water
efficient, biobased, non-ozone depleting, made with recycled content or
nontoxic; or
(b) Has other
attributes recognized as environmentally preferable by the Maryland Green
Purchasing Committee.
(1-2) "EPEAT" means the electronic product environmental
assessment tool.
(2)
"Equipment" has the meaning stated in COMAR 21.01.02.01.
(2-1) "Lamp" means the component of a luminaire that produces
the light.
(2-2) "Lumen" means a unit of measurement of luminous
flux.
(2-3) "Luminaire" means the complete lighting unit, including
the lamp or other component that produces light and the assembly that holds the
lamp, including an assembly housing, a mounting bracket or pole socket, a lamp
holder, a ballast, a reflector or mirror, and a refractor or lens.
(3) "Maryland firm" means a
business entity that has its principal office or base of operations in the
State.
(4) "Nonresident firm" means
a business entity that has its principal office or base of operations outside
this State.
(5) "Post consumer
material" means only those products generated by businesses or consumers which
have served their intended uses, and which have been separated or diverted from
waste destined for disposal for the purpose of collection for recycling or
reuse.
(6) "Product" means goods
created by an industrial process or natural means, by hand or with tools,
chemical processes, machinery or the like which includes equipment, motor
vehicles, and information technology equipment, both hardware and
software.
(7) "Recycled paper"
means a paper product at least 80 percent of the total weight of which consists
of the product of a manufacturing process that:
(a) Has converted a raw material into a
valuable commodity; and
(b)
Includes a total gross content of post-consumer material of at least 80
percent.
(8) "Restricted
uplight luminaire" means a luminaire that:
(a) Except for a 0.5 percent maximum
incidental uplight from reflection off mounting hardware, allows no direct
light emission above a horizontal plane through the luminaire's lowest
lightemitting part; and
(b) Emits
no more than 10 percent of the total direct light emission at or above a
vertical angle of 80 degrees.
