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Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-110

§1711 Limitation of Actions

Title 15 › CHAPTER 42 — INTERSTATE LAND SALES › § 1711

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

You must start a lawsuit to enforce these sale or lease rules within three years. For some kinds of violations, the three-year clock starts on the day you signed the contract or lease. For other kinds that you would not see right away, the three-year clock starts when you discover the problem or when you should have discovered it if you had been reasonably careful. Other rights in the law must also be enforced within three years after signing the contract or lease. That deadline applies even if a deed was later given to the buyer.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §1711

Commerce and Trade, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)section 1703(a) violations
No action shall be maintained under section 1709 of this title with respect to—
(1)a violation of subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2)(D) of section 1703 of this title more than three years after the date of signing of the contract of sale or lease; or
(2)a violation of subsection (a)(2)(A), (a)(2)(B), or (a)(2)(C) of section 1703 of this title more than three years after discovery of the violation or after discovery should have been made by the exercise of reasonable diligence.
(b)section 1703(b) to (e) violations
No action shall be maintained under section 1709 of this title to enforce a right created under subsection (b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 1703 of this title unless brought within three years after the signing of the contract or lease, notwithstanding delivery of a deed to a purchaser.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1979—Pub. L. 96–153 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), substituted provisions setting forth limitations relating to any action maintained under section 1709 of this title, for provisions setting forth limitations relating to any action maintained to enforce any liability created under section 1709(a) or (b)(2) of this title, and added subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1979 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 96–153 effective on

Effective Date

of

Regulations

implementing such amendment, but in no case later than six months following Dec. 21, 1979, see section 410 of Pub. L. 96–153, set out as a note under section 1701 of this title.

Effective Date

Section effective upon the expiration of two hundred and seventy days after Aug. 1, 1968, see section 1423 of Pub. L. 90–448, set out as a note under section 1701 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

15 U.S.C. § 1711

Title 15, Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110