Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 47 — Consumer Product Safety
§ 2057. Banned hazardous products
Statutory text
Whenever the Commission finds that—
a consumer product is being, or will be, distributed in commerce and such consumer product presents an unreasonable risk of injury; and
no feasible consumer product safety standard under this chapter would adequately protect the public from the unreasonable risk of injury associated with such product,
the Commission may, in accordance with section 2058 of this title, promulgate a rule declaring such product a banned hazardous product.
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.
Consumer Product Safety Act
Pub. L. 92–573 § 8 · 86 Stat. 1207
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 2057
Pub. L. 92–573, § 8, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1215
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 92–573, § 8, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1215Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 8. banned hazardous products Whenever the Commission finds that— (1) a consumer product is being, or will be, distributed in commerce and such consumer product presents an unreasonable risk of injury; and (2) no feasible consumer product safety standard under this Act would adequately protect the public from the unreasonable risk of injury associated with such product, the Commission may propose and, in accordance with section 9, promulgate a rule declaring such product a banned hazardous product.Pub. L. 97–35 title XII § 1203(c) · 95 Stat. 357
Substituted · 15 U.S.C. § 2057
Pub. L. 97–35 substituted “may, in accordance with” for “may propose and, in accordance with”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 97–35 substituted “may, in accordance with” for “may propose and, in accordance with”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(c) Section 8 (15 U.S.C. 2057) is amended by striking out “propose and”.Effective date note
Amendment by Pub. L. 97–35 applicable with respect to regulations under this chapter and chapters 25 and 30 of this title for which notices of proposed rulemaking are issued after Aug. 14, 1981, see section 1215 of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as a note under section 2052 of this title.
2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1981—Pub. L. 97–35 substituted “may, in accordance with” for “may propose and, in accordance with”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1981 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 97–35 applicable with respect to regulations under this chapter and chapters 25 and 30 of this title for which notices of proposed rulemaking are issued after , see section 1215 of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as a note under section 2052 of this title.
Effective Date
Section effective on the sixtieth day following , see section 34 of Pub. L. 92–573, set out as a note under section 2051 of this title.
Credits
1972–1981 · 2 acts
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(Pub. L. 92–573, § 8, , 86 Stat. 1215; Pub. L. 97–35, title XII, § 1203(c), , 95 Stat. 713.)