36-796

36-796. Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Bedding" includes upholstered furniture and means any mattress, box spring,
upholstered chair, couch or other upholstered device or any quilted pad, packing pad,
mattress pad, hammock pad, pad, comforter, bunk quilt, sleeping bag, pillow, cushion,
hassock or other bag or container made of leather, cloth, plastic or any other material
that is used as a covering or is stuffed or filled in whole or in part with concealed
material in addition to the structural units, all of which may be used by any person for
sleeping, resting or reclining purposes. Bedding does not include the upholstered
portions of motor vehicles other than mobile homes, house trailers and camp trailers.

2. "Filling materials" means all or portions of materials, prefabricated forms or
articles used as filling in the manufacture, repair or renovation of bedding and
upholstered furniture.

3. "New" means any material or article that has not been previously used, except in
the manufacturing process, for any purpose.

4. "Person" includes persons, partnerships, companies, corporations, associations
and governmental agencies.

5. "Renovate" means to repair, make over, recover, restore or renew bedding or
upholstered furniture and place it in a good state of repair.

6. "Secondhand" means any portion of any article or material of which prior use of
any kind, except in the manufacturing process, has been made.

7. "Sell" means to offer or expose for sale, barter, trade, lend, deliver, give
away, rent, consign, lease, possess with intent to sell or dispose of in any other
commercial manner. The possession of any article of bedding or filling materials by any
maker, remaker or dealer, in the course of business, is presumptive evidence of intent to
sell.

8. "Sterilizer" means a person who sterilizes, disinfects, disinfests or fumigates
any article of upholstered furniture or bedding or any filling material relating to these
items.