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Um, m'lady... I take it you're an amateur lawyer, too?<div><br></div><div>The law has been passed. It will take effect in just a few weeks. How do you propose to make it what it isn't? Please read the reports on the ramifications of this badly-worded legislation before you make any more impossible recommendations.</div><div><br></div><div>Susanna de l'Essart</div><div>[mundanely a former law librarian]</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jan 26, 2009, at 12:00 PM, <a href="mailto:sca-librarians-request@lists.gallowglass.org">sca-librarians-request@lists.gallowglass.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Message: 2</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:37:40 -0500</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">From: Solveig Throndardottir <<a href="mailto:nostrand@acm.org">nostrand@acm.org</a>></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Subject: Re: [Sca-librarians] Children's Books, a Lead danger?</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">To: <a href="mailto:sca-librarians@lists.gallowglass.org">sca-librarians@lists.gallowglass.org</a></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">...</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Noble Librarians!</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Greetings from Solveig! The rather obvious approach is for the law <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">simply to not be retroactive. E.g. all books sold after 2009 JULY 01 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">must be "lead free". I suppose that books published prior to a known <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">lead safe date could be stickerred as possibly containing lead. There <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">really shouldn't be a problem unless the children chew on the books.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Your Humble Servant</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Solveig Throndardottir</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Amateur Scholar</font></p> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>