Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-102
§43 Office and Place of Meeting
Title 15 › CHAPTER 2 — FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; PROMOTION OF EXPORT TRADE AND PREVENTION OF UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION › SUBCHAPTER I — FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION › § 43
Summary
Must keep its office in Washington, D.C., but may meet, act, and use members or examiners to investigate anywhere in the United States.
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Title 15, §43
Commerce and Trade, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
The principal office of the Commission shall be in the city of Washington, but it may meet and exercise all its powers at any other place. The Commission may, by one or more of its members, or by such examiners as it may designate, prosecute any inquiry necessary to its duties in any part of the United States.
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Transfer of Functions
of Federal Trade Commission, with certain exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 8 of 1950, § 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1264, set out under section 41 of this title.
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15 U.S.C. § 43
Title 15, Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102