Earlier this year, Mayor Eric Adams signed two bills outlawing the sale of both uncertified lithium-ion batteries and those built using power cells removed from used devices.
The mandates enabled the city to levy fines on New Yorkers manufacturing and selling contraband devices in hundreds of storefronts throughout the city in the hopes of quelling an increasing number of accidental and often lethal fires.
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