13:1E-99.40. Definitions
As used in this act:
"Beverage" means milk, alcoholic beverages, including beer or other malt beverages, liquor, wine, vermouth and sparkling wine, and nonalcoholic beverages, including fruit juice, mineral water and soda water and similar nonalcoholic carbonated and noncarbonated drinks intended for human consumption;
"Beverage container" means an individual, separate, hermetically sealed, or made airtight with a metal or plastic cap, bottle or can composed of glass, metal, plastic or any combination thereof, containing a beverage;
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Environmental Protection;
"Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection;
"Plastic bottle" means any plastic beverage container having a capacity of at least 16 fluid ounces but less than 5 United States gallons, and composed of thermoplastic synthetic polymeric material;
"Plastic container" means any formed or molded and hermetically sealed, or made airtight with a metal or plastic cap, rigid container, other than a plastic bottle, intended for single-use and having a capacity of at least 8 ounces but less than 5 United States gallons with a minimum wall thickness of not less than 0.010 inches, and composed primarily of thermoplastic synthetic polymeric material.
L.1989, c.268, s.1.