Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-2-11-603

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Definitions

Official statutory text

As used in the Oklahoma Computer Equipment Recovery Act:

1. "Brand" means symbols, words, or marks that identify a

covered device, rather than any of its components;

2. "Consumer" means any occupant of a single detached dwelling

unit or a single unit of a multiple dwelling unit who has used a

covered device primarily for personal or home business use;

3. "Covered device" means a desktop or notebook computer, or

computer monitor which is no longer of use to a consumer. Covered

device does not include a television, any part of a motor vehicle, a

personal digital assistant (PDA), a telephone, or a medical device

that contains a video display device;

4. "Department" means the Department of Environmental Quality;

5. "Desktop computer" means an electronic, magnetic, optical,

electrochemical, or other high-speed data-processing device

performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions, but does not

include an automated typewriter or typesetter. A desktop computer

has a main unit that is intended to be located in a permanent

location, often on a desk or on the floor. A desktop computer is

not designed for portability and generally utilizes an external

monitor, keyboard, and mouse;

6. "Manufacturer" means a person:

a. who manufactures or manufactured covered devices under

a brand that the manufacturer owns or owned or is or

was licensed to use, other than a license to

manufacture covered devices for delivery exclusively

to or at the order of the licensor,

b. who sells or sold covered devices manufactured by

others under a brand that the seller owns or owned or

is or was licensed to use, other than a license to

manufacture covered devices for delivery exclusively

to or at the order of the licensor,

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c. who manufactures or manufactured covered devices

without affixing a brand,

d. who manufactures or manufactured covered devices to

which is or was affixed a brand that the manufacturer

neither owns or owned nor is or was licensed to use,

or

e. for whose account covered devices, manufactured

outside the United States, are or were imported into

the United States. If at the time such covered

devices are or were imported into the United States

another person has offered to collect such covered

devices under a recovery plan pursuant to subsection C

of Section 5 of this act, this subparagraph shall not

apply.

To be subject to the provisions of this act, a manufacturer must

produce, sell or import covered devices in an amount exceeding fifty

units per year;

7. "Notebook computer" means an electronic, magnetic, optical,

electrochemical, or other high-speed data-processing device

performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions, but does not

include a portable handheld calculator, or a portable digital

assistant;

8. "Person" means any individual, business entity, partnership,

limited liability company, corporation, not-for-profit corporation,

association, governmental entity, public benefit corporation or

public authority;

9. "Recover" means to reuse or recycle;

10. "Recoverer" means a person or entity that reuses or

recycles;

11. "Retailer" means a person that owns or operates a business

that sells covered devices directly to a consumer, whether or not

the seller has a physical presence in this state;

12. "Sell" or "sale" means any transfer for consideration of

title including, but not limited to, transactions conducted through

sales outlets, catalogs, or the Internet or any other similar

electronic means, but does not include leases; and

13. "Television" means any telecommunication system device that

can receive moving pictures and sound broadcast over a distance, and

includes a television tuner or a display device peripheral to a

computer that contains a television tuner.

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