Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73
§1681x Corporate and technological circumvention prohibited
Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 41— - CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - CREDIT REPORTING AGENCIES › § 1681x
Summary
The Commission must issue rules, effective no later than 90 days after December 4, 2003, to stop consumer reporting agencies from avoiding being treated under section 1681a(p). The rules must cover attempts to dodge those rules by reorganizing (for example, mergers or asset sales) or by combining public‑record and credit‑account data in similar ways.
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Title 15, §1681x
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The Commission shall prescribe regulations, to become effective not later than 90 days after December 4, 2003, to prevent a consumer reporting agency from circumventing or evading treatment as a consumer reporting agency described in section 1681a(p) of this title for purposes of this subchapter, including—
(1)by means of a corporate reorganization or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, dissolution, divestiture, or asset sale of a consumer reporting agency; or
(2)by maintaining or merging public record and credit account information in a manner that is substantially equivalent to that described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 1681a(p) of this title, in the manner described in section 1681a(p) of this title.
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Section subject to joint
Regulations
establishing
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s as prescribed by Federal Reserve Board and Federal Trade Commission, except as otherwise provided, see section 3 of Pub. L. 108–159, set out as an
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of 2003 Amendment note under section 1681 of this title.
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15 U.S.C. § 1681x
Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73