---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 14335"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "14335"
heading: "Limitations on sale of other mercuric-oxide batteries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/14335"
units:
  - "Chapter 137 — Management of Rechargeable Batteries and Batteries Containing Mercury"
  - "Subchapter III — Management of Batteries Containing Mercury"
---

# §14335. Limitations on sale of other mercuric-oxide batteries

- (a) **Prohibition—** On or after May 13, 1996, no person shall sell, offer for sale, or offer for promotional purposes a [mercuric-oxide battery](/usc/42/14302.md?p=4) for use in the United States unless the battery manufacturer, or the importer of such a battery—
  - (1) identifies a collection site in the United States that has all required Federal, [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14), and local government approvals, to which persons may send used [mercuric-oxide batteries](/usc/42/14302.md?p=4) for recycling or proper [disposal](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=7);
  - (2) informs each of its purchasers of [mercuric-oxide batteries](/usc/42/14302.md?p=4) of the collection site identified under [paragraph (1)](#a-1); and
  - (3) informs each of its purchasers of [mercuric-oxide batteries](/usc/42/14302.md?p=4) of a telephone number that the purchaser may call to get information about sending [mercuric-oxide batteries](/usc/42/14302.md?p=4) for recycling or proper [disposal](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=7).
- (b) **Application of section—** This section does not apply to a sale or offer of a mercuric-oxide [button cell](/usc/42/14302.md?p=2) battery.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–142, title II, § 206, May 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 1336.)