right-to-know act

right-to-know act definition - legal

n

A federal law (augmented by some state statutes) that requires businesses that produce hazardous materials to inform the community in which it manufactures or stores those materials, and the employees who may handle them, about the possible hazards.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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