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[CITE: 15USC2057]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                   CHAPTER 47--CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
 
Sec. 2057. Banned hazardous products

    Whenever the Commission finds that--
        (1) a consumer product is being, or will be, distributed in 
    commerce and such consumer product presents an unreasonable risk of 
    injury; and
        (2) no feasible consumer product safety standard under this 
    chapter would adequately protect the public from the unreasonable 
    risk of injury associated with such product,

the Commission may, in accordance with section 2058 of this title, 
promulgate a rule declaring such product a banned hazardous product.

(Pub. L. 92-573, Sec. 8, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1215; Pub. L. 97-35, 
title XII, Sec. 1203(c), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 713.)


                               Amendments

    1981--Pub. L. 97-35 substituted ``may, in accordance with'' for 
``may propose and, in accordance with''.


                    Effective Date of 1981 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 97-35 applicable with respect to regulations 
under this chapter and chapters 25 and 30 of this title for which 
notices of proposed rulemaking are issued after Aug. 14, 1981, see 
section 1215 of Pub. L. 97-35, set out as a note under section 2052 of 
this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2057a, 2057b, 2058, 2060 of 
this title.
