Title 42The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§4907 Labeling

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 65— - NOISE CONTROL › § 4907

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Federal regulators must make rules to identify products that either make noise that can harm public health or welfare or are sold for cutting down noise. For each product named, the rules must require a clear notice to buyers about the noise level it makes or how well it reduces noise. The rules will say where the notice goes, what it looks like, and which measurement methods and units to use. A separate rule about how regulations are made also applies. States and local governments may set their own labeling rules if they do not conflict with the federal rules.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §4907

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Administrator shall by regulation designate any product (or class thereof)—
(1)which emits noise capable of adversely affecting the public health or welfare; or
(2)which is sold wholly or in part on the basis of its effectiveness in reducing noise.
(b)For each product (or class thereof) designated under subsection (a) the Administrator shall by regulation require that notice be given to the prospective user of the level of the noise the product emits, or of its effectiveness in reducing noise, as the case may be. Such regulations shall specify (1) whether such notice shall be affixed to the product or to the outside of its container, or to both, at the time of its sale to the ultimate purchaser or whether such notice shall be given to the prospective user in some other manner, (2) the form of the notice, and (3) the methods and units of measurement to be used. section 4905(c)(2) of this title shall apply to the prescribing of any regulation under this section.
(c)This section does not prevent any State or political subdivision thereof from regulating product labeling or information respecting products in any way not in conflict with regulations prescribed by the Administrator under this section.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 4907

Title 42The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73