Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73
§2071 Injunctive enforcement and seizure
Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 47— - CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY › § 2071
Summary
U.S. district courts can order people or businesses to stop breaking consumer safety rules. They can stop violations of 2068, stop making, selling, distributing, or importing products that break an order under 2064(d), or stop selling products that fail a consumer product safety rule.
Full Legal Text
Title 15, §2071
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(a)The United States district courts shall have jurisdiction to take the following action:
(1)Restrain any violation of section 2068 of this title.
(2)Restrain any person from manufacturing for sale, offering for sale, distributing in commerce, or importing into the United States a product in violation of an order in effect under section 2064(d) of this title.
(3)Restrain any person from distributing in commerce a product which does not comply with a consumer product safety rule.
(b)Any consumer product—
(1)which fails to conform with an applicable consumer product safety rule, or
(2)the manufacture for sale, offering for sale, distribution in commerce, or the importation into the United States of which has been prohibited by an order in effect under section 2064(d) of this title,
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1976—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94–284, §§ 11(b), 12(c)(1), designated existing provision as par. (1) and (3), added par. (2), and in provision following par. (3) substituted “(without regard to section 2076(b)(7)(A) of this title)” for “(with the concurrence of the Attorney General)”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94–284, § 12(c)(2), amended subsec. (b) generally, inserting provision designated as par. (2) which included within consumer products liable to proceedings, a product of which the manufacture for sale, offering for sale, distribution in commerce, or importation into the United States has been prohibited.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective on the sixtieth day following Oct. 27, 1972, see section 34 of Pub. L. 92–573, set out as a note under section 2051 of this title.
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Citation
15 U.S.C. § 2071
Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73