By Mrs. Walrath of Stow, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3386) of Patricia A. Walrath and others for legislation to authorize dealers of redeemable bottled products to designate licensed redemption centers as agents of such dealers.  Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Patricia A. Walrath

Pamela P. Resor

Jay R. Kaufman

Mary E. Grant

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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An Act relative to the bottle bill.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 323 of chapter 94 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2002 Official Edition is hereby amended by striking out paragraph (e) and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph:—
(e) A dealer may refuse to redeem containers it sells if it has agreed to let a conveniently located, licensed redemption center act as its agent for redeeming empty beverage containers. The dealer must also post a sign notifying the public that he no longer accepts containers and it must identify the redemption center that is accepting the empties for him. Distributors have the obligation to pick up containers from the dealer they deliver to or from the licensed redemption center acting as the agent for the dealer the distributor delivers to.