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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 10 MRSA c. 205-A is enacted to read:

 
CHAPTER 205-A

 
UNUSED PROPERTY MARKETS

 
§1210.__Definitions

 
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise
indicates, the following terms have the following meanings.

 
1.__Baby food.__"Baby food" or "infant formula" means any food
manufactured, packaged and labeled specifically for sale for
consumption by a child under 2 years of age.

 
2.__Medical device.__"Medical device" means any instrument,
apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro
reagent, tool or other similar or related article, including any
component part or accessory required under federal law to bear
the label "Caution: Federal law requires dispensing by or on the
order of a physician," which is required under federal law to be
prescribed by a practitioner as a medical device intended for use
in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions or in the cure,
mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in man or animals
or is intended to affect the structure or any function of the
body of man or animals but that does not achieve any of its
principal intended purposes through chemical action within or on
the body of man or animals and that is not dependent upon being
metabolized for achievement of any of its principal intended
purposes.

 
3.__New and unused property.__"New and unused property" means
tangible personal property that is acquired by an unused property
merchant directly from the producer, manufacturer, wholesaler or
retailer of the property in the ordinary course of business and
that has never been used since its production or manufacture or
that is in its original and unopened package or container, if
such personal property was so packaged when originally produced
or manufactured.

 
4.__Nonprescription drug or over-the-counter drug.__
"Nonprescription Drug" or "over-the-counter drug" means any
nonnarcotic medicine or drug that may be sold without a
prescription and is prepackaged for use by the consumer, prepared
by the manufacturer or producer for use by the consumer, properly
labeled and unadulterated in accordance with the requirements of
the state food and drug laws and the federal Food, Drug and
Cosmetic Act.__"Nonprescription drug" does not include herbal
products, dietary supplements, botanical extracts or vitamins.


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