Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part B · Chapter 152 — Energy Independence and Security
§ 17301. Prohibition on market manipulation
Statutory text
It is unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, to use or employ, in connection with the purchase or sale of crude oil 1 gasoline or petroleum distillates at wholesale, any manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance, in contravention of such rules and regulations as the Federal Trade Commission may prescribe as necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of United States citizens.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original. A comma probably should appear.
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.
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
Pub. L. 110–140 title VIII § 811 · 121 Stat. 1492
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 17301
(Pub. L. 110–140, title VIII, § 811, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1723.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 110–140, title VIII, § 811, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1723.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 811. PROHIBITION ON MARKET MANIPULATION. It is unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, to use or employ, in connection with the purchase or sale of crude oil gasoline or petroleum distillates at wholesale, any manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance, in contravention of such rules and regulations as the Federal Trade Commission may prescribe as necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of United States citizens.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective on the date that is 1 day after , see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.