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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 19 — Miscellaneous

§ 1001. Prize-fight films as subjects of interstate or foreign commerce

Statutory text

Every film or other pictorial representation of any prize fight or encounter of pugilists, under whatever name, transported into any State, Territory, or possession, for use, sale, storage, exhibition, or other disposition therein is divested of its character as a subject of interstate or foreign commerce to the extent that it shall upon crossing the boundary of such State, Territory, or possession, be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State, Territory, or possession enacted in the exercise of its police power.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 76–443 § 1 · 54 Stat. 686

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 1001

    (June 29, 1940, ch. 443, § 1, 54 Stat. 686.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 29, 1940, ch. 443, § 1, 54 Stat. 686.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(June 29, 1940, ch. 443, § 1, 54 Stat. 686.)

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