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DIVISION 104. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 106500-119406›PART 3. PRODUCT SAFETY 108040-108960›CHAPTER 4. California Hazardous Substances Act 108100-108515›ARTICLE 1. General Provisions and Definitions 108100-108225

§ 108135

California Health and Safety Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

The term “hazardous substance” shall apply to any article that is not itself an economic poison within the meaning of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act or Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12751) of Division 7, of the Food and Agricultural Code, but that is a hazardous substance within the meaning of Section 108125 by reason of bearing or containing an economic poison.

(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.)

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