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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 80 — Fasteners

§ 5410. Relationship to State laws

Statutory text

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to preempt any rights or causes of action that any buyer may have with respect to any seller of fasteners under the law of any State, except to the extent that the provisions of this chapter are in conflict with such State law.

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. Fastener Quality Act

    Pub. L. 101–592 § 8 · 104 Stat. 2943

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 5410

    Pub. L. 101–592, § 8, formerly § 11, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 2952

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 101–592, § 8, formerly § 11, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 2952

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 8. MANUFACTURERS’ INSIGNIAS. (a) General Rule.— No fastener which is required by the standards and specifications to which it was manufactured to bear a raised or depressed insignia identifying its manufacturer or private label distributor shall be offered for sale or sold in commerce unless the manufacturer or private label distributor of such fastener has complied with the requirements prescribed by the Secretary in connection with the program established under subsection (b) of this section. (b) Recordation.— The Secretary shall establish, by regulation, a program to provide for the recordation of the insignias of manufacturers and private label distributors described in subsection (a), to ensure the traceability of a fastener to its manufacturer or private label distributor.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 8 of Pub. L. 101–592 was renumbered section 5 and is classified to section 5407 of this title.

Credits

1990–1999 · 2 acts
  1. 1990Pub. L. 101–592, § 8, formerly § 11, , 104 Stat. 2952
  2. 1999renumbered § 8, Pub. L. 106–34, § 8, , 113 Stat. 123.
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(Pub. L. 101–592, § 8, formerly § 11, , 104 Stat. 2952; renumbered § 8, Pub. L. 106–34, § 8, , 113 Stat. 123.)

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