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Volume 68

Public Law 83–629

To amend section 4 of the Flammable Fabrics Act, with respect to standards of flammability in the ease of certain textiles.

Approved August 23, 1954

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend section 4 of the Flammable Fabrics Act, with respect to standards of flammability in the ease of certain textiles.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section 4 of the Flammable Fabrics Act (15 U. S. C., sec. 1193) is hereby amended by inserting at the end thereof the following subsection:

“(c)

Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 3.1 Commercial Standard 191–53, textiles free from nap, pile, tufting, flock, or other type of raised fiber surface when tested as described in said standard shall be classified as class 1, normal flammability, when the time of flame spread is three and one-half seconds or more, and as class 3, rapid and intense burning, when the time of flame spread is less than three and one-half seconds.”

Approved August 23, 1954.

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