---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 14331"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "14331"
heading: "Purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/14331"
units:
  - "Chapter 137 — Management of Rechargeable Batteries and Batteries Containing Mercury"
  - "Subchapter III — Management of Batteries Containing Mercury"
---

# §14331. Purpose


The purpose of this subchapter is to phase out the use of batteries containing mercury.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–142, title II, § 202, May 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 1336.)