HB2042I-Introduced Bill Text
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 2042
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES GASKILL, ROBIRDS, MERIDETH (Co-sponsors), MYERS,
BARTELSMEYER, BERKSTRESSER, WILLIAMS (121) AND SUMMERS.
Read 1st time February 17, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
4299L.01I
AN ACT
To amend chapter 260, RSMo, relating to beverage container control by adding thereto fifteen new sections relating to the
same subject, with an effective date and penalty provisions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 260, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto fifteen new sections, to be known as sections 260.850,
260.852, 260.854, 260.856, 260.858, 260.860, 260.862, 260.864, 260.866, 260.868, 260.870, 260.872, 260.874, 260.876
and 260.878, to read as follows:
260.850. As used in sections 260.850 to 260.878, the following terms shall mean:
(1) "Beverage", beer and other malt beverages, including nonintoxicating beer, as defined in subsection 2 of section
312.010, RSMo, soft drinks as defined in section 196.365, RSMo, and mineral water, soda water and similar
carbonated soft drinks in liquid form and intended for human consumption;
(2) "Beverage container", any sealed glass, plastic, or metal bottle, can, jar or carton containing a beverage;
(3) "Consumer", any person who purchases a beverage in a beverage container for use or consumption;
(4) "Dealer", any person who engages in the sale of beverages in beverage containers to a consumer;
(5) "Dealer agent", a person who solicits or picks up empty beverage containers from a dealer for the purpose of
returning the empty beverage containers to a distributor or manufacturer;
(6) "Department", the department of natural resources;
(7) "Director", the director of the department of natural resources;
(8) "Distributor", any person who engages in the sale of beverages in beverage containers to a dealer in this state,
including any manufacturer who engages in such sales;
(9) "Geographic territory", the geographical area within a perimeter formed by the outermost boundaries served
by a distributor;
(10) "Manufacturer", any person who bottles, cans or otherwise fills beverage containers for sale to distributors or
dealers;
(11) "Nonrefillable beverage container", a beverage container not intended to be refilled for sale by a
manufacturer;
(12) "Redemption center", a facility at which consumers may return empty beverage containers and receive
payment for the refund value of the empty beverage containers.
260.852. 1. A refund value of not less than five cents shall be paid by the consumer on each beverage container sold
in this state by a dealer for consumption off the premises. Upon return of the empty beverage container upon which
a refund value has been paid to the dealer or person operating a redemption center and acceptance of the empty
beverage container by the dealer or person operating a redemption center, the dealer or person operating a
redemption center shall return the amount of the refund value to the consumer.
2. In addition to the refund value provided in subsection 1 of this section, a dealer, or person operating a
redemption center who redeems empty beverage containers or a dealer agent shall be reimbursed by the distributor
required to accept the empty beverage containers an amount equal to one cent per container. A dealer, dealer agent
or person operating a redemption center may compact empty metal beverage containers with the approval of the
distributor required to accept the containers.
260.854. Except as provided in section 260.856:
(1) A dealer shall not refuse to accept from a consumer any empty beverage container of the kind, size and brand
sold by the dealer, or refuse to pay to the consumer the refund value of a beverage container pursuant to section
260.852;
(2) A distributor shall accept and pick up from a dealer served by the distributor or a redemption center for a
dealer served by the distributor at least weekly, or when the distributor delivers the beverage product if deliveries
are less frequent than weekly, any empty beverage container of the kind, size and brand sold by the distributor, and
shall pay to the dealer or person operating a redemption center the refund value of a beverage container and the
reimbursement pursuant to section 260.852 within one week following pick up of the containers or when the dealer
or redemption center normally pays the distributor for the deposit on beverage products purchased from the
distributor if less frequent than weekly. A distributor or employee or agent of a distributor is not in violation of this
subsection if a redemption center is closed when the distributor attempts to make a regular delivery or a regular
pick up of empty beverage containers;
(3) A distributor shall not be required to pay to a manufacturer a deposit or refund value on a nonrefillable
beverage container;
(4) A distributor shall accept from a dealer agent any empty beverage container of the kind, size and brand sold by
the distributor and which was picked up by the dealer agent from a dealer within the geographic territory served by
the distributor and the distributor shall pay the dealer agent the refund value of the empty beverage container and
the reimbursement pursuant to section 260.852.
260.856. 1. Except as provided in subsection 3 of section 260.858, a dealer, a person operating a redemption center,
a distributor or a manufacturer may refuse to accept any empty beverage container which does not have stated on it
a refund value pursuant to section 260.852.
2. A dealer may refuse to accept and to pay the refund value of any empty beverage container if the place of
business of the dealer and the kind and brand of empty beverage containers are included in an order of the
department approving a redemption center pursuant to section 260.860.
3. A manufacturer or distributor may refuse to accept and to pay the refund value and reimbursement as provided
in section 260.852 on any empty beverage container that was picked up by a dealer agent from a dealer outside the
geographic territory served by the manufacturer or distributor.
260.858. 1. Each beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state by a dealer shall clearly indicate by
embossing or by a stamp, label or other method securely affixed to the container, the refund value of the container.
The department shall specify, by rule, the minimum size of the refund value indication on the beverage containers.
2. A person, except a distributor, shall not import into this state after July 1, 2002, a beverage container which does
not have securely affixed to the container the refund value indication. The provisions of this subsection do not
apply if:
(1) For beverage containers containing beer, the total capacity is not more than two hundred eighty-eight fluid
ounces;
(2) For all other beverage containers, the total capacity is not more than five hundred seventy-six fluid ounces.
3. The provisions of subsections 1 and 2 of this section do not apply to a refillable glass beverage container which
has a brand name permanently marked on it and which has a refund value of not less than five cents, to any other
refillable beverage container which has a refund value of not less than five cents and which is exempted by the
director, or to a beverage container sold aboard a commercial airliner or passenger train for consumption on the
premises.
260.860. 1. To facilitate the return of empty beverage containers and to serve dealers of beverages, any person may
establish a redemption center, subject to the approval of the department, at which consumers may return empty
beverage containers and receive payment of the refund value of such beverage containers.
2. An application for approval of a redemption center shall be filed with the department. The application shall
state the name and address of the person responsible for the establishment and operation of the redemption center,
the kind and brand names of the beverage containers which will be accepted at the redemption center, and the
names and addresses of the dealers to be served by the redemption center. The application shall contain such other
information as the director may reasonably require.
3. The department shall approve a redemption center if it finds that the redemption center will provide a
convenient service to consumers for the return of empty beverage containers. The order of the department
approving a redemption center shall state the dealers to be served by the redemption center and the kind and brand
names of empty beverage containers which the redemption center must accept. The order may contain such other
provisions to ensure that the redemption center will provide a convenient service to the public as the director may
determine.
4. The department may review the approval of any redemption center at any time. After written notice to the
person responsible for the establishment and operation of the redemption center, and to the dealers served by the
redemption center, the director may, after hearing, withdraw approval of a redemption center if the director finds
there has not been compliance with the department's order approving the redemption center, or if the redemption
center no longer provides a convenient service to the public.
5. All approved redemption centers shall meet applicable health standards.
260.862. Any person may establish a redemption center which has not been approved by the department, at which
a consumer may return empty beverage containers and receive payment of the refund value of the beverage
containers. The establishment of an unapproved redemption center shall not relieve any dealer from the
responsibility of redeeming any empty beverage containers of the kind and brand sold by the dealer.
260.864. A person shall not sell or offer for sale at retail in this state any metal beverage container so designed and
constructed that a part of the container is detachable in opening the container.
260.866. The director is authorized to adopt all rules necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 260.850 to
260.878. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated pursuant to the authority of this section shall become effective
unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo.
260.868. Any person aggrieved by an order of the department relating to the approval or withdrawal of approval
for a redemption center may seek review of such order as provided in chapter 621, RSMo.
260.870. 1. Any person violating the provisions of sections 260.852, 260.854, 260.858 and 260.864, or a rule adopted
pursuant to the authority of section 260.866 is guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
2. A distributor who collects or attempts to collect a refund value on an empty beverage container when the
distributor has paid the refund value on the container to a dealer, redemption center, or consumer is guilty of a
class C misdemeanor.
3. Any person who does any of the following acts is guilty of a class B misdemeanor:
(1) Collects or attempts to collect the refund value on the container a second time, with the knowledge that the
refund value has once been paid by the distributor to a dealer, redemption center or consumer;
(2) Manufactures, sells, possesses or applies a false or counterfeit label or indication which shows or purports to
show a refund value for a beverage container, with intent to use the false or counterfeit label or indication;
(3) Collects or attempts to collect a refund value on a container with the use of a false or counterfeit label or
indication showing a refund value, knowing the label or indication to be false or counterfeit;
4. As used in this section, a false or counterfeit label or indication means a label or indication purporting to show a
valid refund value which has not been initially applied as authorized by a distributor.
5. Subsection 2 and subdivision (1) of subsection 3 of this section have no application to empty beverage containers
which are intended to be refillable and are in a standard of condition except for sanitization to be refillable by the
manufacturer.
260.872. A distributor may enter into a contract or agreement with any other distributor, manufacturer or person
for the purpose of collecting or paying the refund value on, or disposing of, beverage containers as provided in
sections 260.850 to 260.878.
260.874. 1. If the refund value indication required pursuant to section 260.858 on an empty nonrefillable metal
beverage container is readable but the redemption of the container is lawfully refused by a dealer or person
operating a redemption center pursuant to sections 260.850 to 260.856, sections 260.860 to 260.878, or rules adopted
pursuant to these sections, the container shall be accepted and the refund value paid to a consumer as provided in
this section. Each beer distributor selling nonrefillable metal beverage containers in this state shall provide
individually or collectively by contract or agreement with a dealer, person operating a redemption center or another
person, at least one facility in the county seat of each county where refused empty nonrefillable metal beverage
containers having a readable refund value indication as required by this chapter are accepted and redeemed. In
cities having a population of twenty-five thousand or more, the number of the facilities provided shall be one for
each twenty-five thousand population or a fractional part of that population.
2. A beer distributor violating this section is guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
260.876. 1. A person shall not manufacture, offer for sale, or sell any single-serving beverage container which is a
plastic can nor offer for sale or sell any beverage packaged in a single-serving plastic can. For the purposes of this
section, a "plastic can" means a beverage container which, in addition to the closure mechanism, is composed of
plastic and metal.
2. A person violating this section is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
260.878. Beginning July 1, 2002, the final disposal of beverage containers by a dealer, distributor, or manufacturer,
or person operating a redemption center, in a sanitary landfill, is prohibited.
Section B. Section A of this act shall become effective on January 1, 2002.
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