(1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a person shall not sell, give, offer for sale, install for use, or allow to remain installed for use a fire extinguisher or fire extinguishing device containing an active agent having a level of vapor toxicity equal to or greater than any of the following listed materials, or a fire extinguisher or fire extinguishing device containing an active agent or propellant whose thermal decomposition product or products have a level of vapor toxicity equal to or greater than any of the following listed materials:

(a) Carbon tetrachloride, CCl4

(b) Chlorobromomethane, CH2 BrC l

(d) Dibromodifluoromethane, CBr2 F2

(e) 1,2-dibromo-2-chloro-1,1,2-trifluoroethane, CBr-F2 CBrClF

(f) 1,2-dibromo-2,2-difluoroethane, CH2BrCBrF 2

(g) Methyl bromide, CH3 Br

(h) Ethylene dibromide, CH2 BrCH2 Br

(i) Hydrogen bromide, HBr

(j) Methylene bromide, CH2Br2

(k) Bromodifluoromethane, CHBrF2

(2) A person may sell, give, offer for sale, install for use or allow to remain installed for use, a fire extinguisher or fire extinguisher device which contains, in addition to an inert propellant, bromotrifluoromethane or bromochlorodifluoromethane, or a combination of bromotrifluoromethane and bromochlorodifluoromethane.

History: Add. 1961, Act 102, Eff. Sept. 8, 1961 ;-- Am. 1967, Act 106, Eff. Aug. 1, 1967 ;-- Am. 1968, Act 321, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1968 ;-- Am. 1983, Act 93, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1983
Compiler's Notes: For transfer of certain authority, powers, functions, and responsibilities of the state fire marshal and the fire marshal division of the department of state police to the director of the department of labor and economic growth, bureau of construction codes and fire safety, by type II transfer, see E.R.O. No. 2003-1, compiled at MCL 445.2011.

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