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The definitions

Intent, not access

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Intended to be entrusted to or for use by children. Not merely present in the house.

The children’s article limb could have been drafted on access

It is not. Toys and other articles intended for use by children means those which are intended to be entrusted to or for use by children.

And the next sentence closes the wider reading explicitly

This would not include all articles to which children might have access simply because they are present in a household.

Which is a sentence written to settle an obvious argument

Almost everything in a house is accessible to a child who is determined. A ban drawn on access would reach the whole household inventory, and the drafting refuses that.

A model railway is the canonical case on that boundary

Sometimes built by an adult and not entrusted to anybody. Sometimes bought for a child. The same locomotive on the same shelf, and the rule resolves it on intent rather than on the object.

No page here applies that test to anything

Whether any particular product is intended for use by children is a determination about how it is made and sold, not something a packaging catalog can read off a listing.

The furniture limb is drafted the opposite way, by enumeration

Movable articles used to support people or things, and other functional or decorative furniture articles, with a list: beds, bookcases, chairs, chests, tables, dressers, desks, pianos, console televisions and sofas.

A piano and a console television in a furniture definition

Both are movable, both are decorative objects in a room, and both would be arguable without the list. The enumeration exists to settle them.

Then three separate exclusion lists

Not appliances, naming ranges, refrigerators, dishwashers, clothes washers and dryers, air conditioners, humidifiers and dehumidifiers. Not fixtures, naming bathroom fixtures, built-in cabinets, chandeliers, windows and doors. And not household items, naming window shades, venetian blinds, wall hangings and draperies.

The fixtures list turns on being built in rather than movable

Which is the same distinction the inclusion limb opens with. A built-in cabinet is not a movable article, so the exclusion is really a restatement of the definition with examples.

Three definitions, three drafting strategies

Paint is defined by what it does and then narrowed by three exclusions. Children’s articles are defined by intent and then narrowed by one sentence. Furniture is defined by a list and then narrowed by three lists.

References

16 CFR 1303.2(b). Paragraph (1): "Paint and other similar surface-coating materials means a fluid, semi-fluid, or other material, with or without a suspension of finely divided coloring matter, which changes to a solid film when a thin layer is applied to a metal, wood, stone, paper, leather, cloth, plastic, or other surface. This term does not include printing inks or those materials which actually become a part of the substrate, such as the pigment in a plastic article, or those materials which are actually bonded to the substrate, such as by electroplating or ceramic glazing." Paragraph (3): "Toys and other articles intended for use by children means those toys and other articles which are intended to be entrusted to or for use by children. This would not include all articles to which children might have access simply because they are present in a household." Paragraph (4) defines furniture article, naming beds, bookcases, chairs, chests, tables, dressers, desks, pianos, console televisions and sofas, and excluding appliances, fixtures and "household items such as window shades, venetian blinds, or wall hangings and draperies." law.cornell.edu
Written from 16 CFR part 1303 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. Part 1303 bans lead-containing paint and certain products bearing it; it does not govern ballast, couplers, scenery material or static grass, and it does not reach any container on this shelf. Nothing here states the lead content of anything, whether any product is a toy or article intended for use by children, or whether any coating complies with anything, and nothing here is guidance about using, stripping or disposing of paint. This shelf is shared identically by nine groups and the sewing notions property enumerates the inventory.