§2071 — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

Summary

Federal district courts can order people to stop certain product-related actions. They can stop anyone who breaks section 2068; who makes, offers for sale, sells in commerce, or imports a product that violates an order under section 2064(d); or who distributes a product that does not meet a consumer product safety rule. It covers any consumer product that either fails a safety rule or whose making, sale, distribution, or import is banned by an order under section 2064(d).

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,

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.

§2071 Injunctive Enforcement and Seizure