Sections
33 entriesSection 19000Defines the chapter's permitted citation as the Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation Act. The provision supplies the chapter's short title and does…Section 19001Establishes that the general provisions that follow govern how the chapter is construed unless the context requires a different construction. The rule…Section 19002Defines “person” to include an individual, partnership, association, firm, auctioneer, trust, limited liability company, and corporation, together with the agents, servants, and…Section 19003Defines sell and its variants broadly to include selling, offering or exposing for sale, bartering, trading, delivering, giving away, renting, consigning, leasing,…Section 19004Defines bureau as the Bureau of Household Goods and Services, chief as the bureau’s chief, inspector as an inspector or investigator employed…Section 19004.1Establishes protection of the public as the Bureau of Household Goods and Services’ highest priority when exercising licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions…Section 19006Defines upholstered furniture as movable or stationary furniture, including children’s furniture, with cushions, pillows, stuffing, filling, or concealed fill and related structural…Section 19006.1Defines “seating furniture,” including children's furniture, as movable or stationary furniture made or sold with or without filling material, together with structural…Section 19007Defines bedding as listed pads, mattresses, hammocks, comforters, quilts, sleeping bags, box springs, studio couches, pillows, or cushions made from leather, cloth,…Section 19007.5Defines “filling material” as cotton, wool, kapok, feathers, downs, hair, liquid, or any other material, substance, or combination, whether loose or in…Section 19008Defines secondhand as materials or articles used in bedding or upholstered-furniture construction that were previously used for any purpose, including sweepings recovered…Section 19008.1Defines used as furniture or bedding that another individual previously owned or used. The term covers either prior ownership or prior use…Section 19008.2Defines an “antique” as furniture having special value because of its age, particularly a work of art or handicraft that is more…Section 19008.5Defines upholstered furniture or bedding as secondhand when it contains secondhand material in whole or in part. The rule applies when all…Section 19008.6Defines upholstered furniture or bedding displayed on sales floors in a private residence or room as secondhand when the sales area is…Section 19009Defines a “retailer” as a person who sells an article of upholstered furniture, bedding, or filling materials to the consumer or user…Section 19010Defines bedding renovator as a person who rebuilds, repairs, makes over, re-covers, restores, renovates, or renews bedding. Any person performing one or…Section 19010.1Defines custom upholsterer as a person who personally or through employees or agents repairs, reupholsters, re-covers, restores, or renews upholstered furniture, or…Section 19010.5Defines wholesaler as a person who, for the person’s own account, sells upholstered furniture, bedding, or filling materials to another for resale.…Section 19011Defines manufacturer as a person who personally, through employees, or through agents makes upholstered furniture or bedding wholly or partly, or upholsters…Section 19011.1Defines an “importer” as a person who, through employees or agents, manufactures or wholesales upholstered furniture, bedding, or filling material manufactured outside…Section 19012Defines supply dealer as a person who manufactures, processes, or sells felt, batting, pads, woven or plastic fabrics, or loose material in…Section 19012.5Defines a “sanitizer” as a person who sanitizes articles of bedding or filling materials. The definition turns solely on performing sanitation of…Section 19014Defines branch as a subordinate establishment located apart from its parent house and maintaining a separate service to the trade. The definition…Section 19015Defines slip seat as a separate padded seat unit consisting of a plywood or similar base, filling material, and attached cover, used…Section 19016Defines a “slip cover” as a casing or cover without filling material that is placed on or over a completely manufactured article…Section 19016.5Exempts a person engaged exclusively in manufacturing slip covers from the chapter's licensing requirement. The exemption applies only when the person's activity…Section 19017Defines owner’s material as an article or material belonging to a person for that person’s or a tenant’s use that is sent…Section 19018Defines approved testing laboratory as a facility the bureau determines by rule has adequate personnel, facilities, equipment, and expertise for required testing.…Section 19019Defines insulation material as any material or combination applied or installed within or next to a building roof, wall, ceiling, or floor,…Section 19020Defines R-value as a measure of the thermal resistance of a material or composite materials, equal to the reciprocal of the material’s…Section 19021Defines a “quality assurance program” as manufacturing-site procedures designed to ensure insulation material produced there continues meeting bureau-established standards. Requires the program,…Section 19022Defines an insulation manufacturer to include producers of insulation materials or finished insulating products and persons who alter, substitute, or recompound insulation,…