| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA c. 36 is enacted to read: |
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| ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS |
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| | As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise | indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. |
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| | 1.__AC.__"AC" means alternating current. |
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| | 2.__Automatic commercial ice-maker.__"Automatic commercial | ice-maker" means a factory-made assembly shipped in one or more | packages that consists of a condensing unit and ice-making | section operating as an integrated unit that makes and harvests | ice cubes and that may store or dispense ice.__This term includes | machines with ice-making capacities from 50 to 2,500 lbs. per 24 | hours. |
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| | 3.__Ballast.__"Ballast" means a device used with an electric | discharge lamp to obtain necessary voltage, current and wave form | for starting and operating the lamp. |
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| | 4.__BTU.__"BTU" has the same meaning as in Title 10, section | 1413. |
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| | 5.__Ceiling fan.__"Ceiling fan"__means a nonportable device | that is suspended from a ceiling for circulating air via the | rotation of fan blades. |
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| | 6.__Ceiling fan light kit.__"Ceiling fan light kit" means | equipment designed to__provide light from a ceiling fan that can | be: |
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| A.__Integral, such that the equipment is hardwired to the | ceiling fan; or |
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| B.__Attachable, such that at the time of sale the equipment | is not physically attached to the ceiling fan but may be | included inside the ceiling fan package or sold separately | for subsequent attachment to the fan. |
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| | 7.__Commercial clothes washer.__"Commercial clothes washer" | means a soft mount horizontal-axis or vertical-axis clothes | washer that: |
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| A.__Has a clothes container compartment no greater than 3.5 cubic | feet in the case of a horizontal-axis product and no |
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