Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 39 — Fair Packaging and Labeling Program
§ 1461. Effect upon State law
Statutory text
It is hereby declared that it is the express intent of Congress to supersede any and all laws of the States or political subdivisions thereof insofar as they may now or hereafter provide for the labeling of the net quantity of contents of the package of any consumer commodity covered by this chapter which are less stringent than or require information different from the requirements of section 1453 of this title or regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
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.
Fair Packaging and Labeling Act
Pub. L. 89–755 § 12 · 80 Stat. 1296
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 1461
(Pub. L. 89–755, § 12, Nov. 3, 1966, 80 Stat. 1302.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 89–755, § 12, Nov. 3, 1966, 80 Stat. 1302.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 12. effect upon state law It is hereby declared that it is the express intent of Congress to supersede any and all laws of the States or political subdivisions thereof insofar as they may now or hereafter provide for the labeling of the net quantity or contents of the package of any consumer commodity covered by this Act which are less stringent than or require information different from the requirements of section 4 of this Act or regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
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