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[CITE: 15USC44]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
   CHAPTER 2--FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; PROMOTION OF EXPORT TRADE AND 
               PREVENTION OF UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION
 
                 SUBCHAPTER I--FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
 
Sec. 44. Definitions

    The words defined in this section shall have the following meaning 
when found in this subchapter, to wit:
    ``Commerce'' means commerce among the several States or with foreign 
nations, or in any Territory of the United States or in the District of 
Columbia, or between any such Territory and another, or between any such 
Territory and any State or foreign nation, or between the District of 
Columbia and any State or Territory or foreign nation.
    ``Corporation'' shall be deemed to include any company, trust, so-
called Massachusetts trust, or association, incorporated or 
unincorporated, which is organized to carry on business for its own 
profit or that of its members, and has shares of capital or capital 
stock or certificates of interest, and any company, trust, so-called 
Massachusetts trust, or association, incorporated or unincorporated, 
without shares of capital or capital stock or certificates of interest, 
except partnerships, which is organized to carry on business for its own 
profit or that of its members.
    ``Documentary evidence'' includes all documents, papers, 
correspondence, books of account, and financial and corporate records.
    ``Acts to regulate commerce'' means subtitle IV of title 49 and the 
Communications Act of 1934 [47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.] and all Acts 
amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.
    ``Antitrust Acts'' means the Act entitled ``An Act to protect trade 
and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies'', approved July 
2, 1890; also sections 73 to 77, inclusive, of an Act entitled ``An Act 
to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other 
purposes'', approved August 27, 1894; also the Act entitled ``An Act to 
amend sections 73 and 76 of the Act of August 27, 1894, entitled `An Act 
to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other 
purposes' '', approved February 12, 1913; and also the Act entitled ``An 
Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and 
monopolies, and for other purposes'', approved October 15, 1914.
    ``Banks'' means the types of banks and other financial institutions 
referred to in section 57a(f)(2) of this title.

(Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, Sec. 4, 38 Stat. 719; Mar. 21, 1938, ch. 49, 
Sec. 2, 52 Stat. 111; Pub. L. 102-242, title II, Sec. 212(g)(1), Dec. 
19, 1991, 105 Stat. 2302.)

                       References in Text

    The Communications Act of 1934, referred to in text, is act June 19, 
1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, as amended, which is classified 
principally to chapter 5 (Sec. 151 et seq.) of Title 47, Telegraphs, 
Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs. For complete classification of this Act 
to the Code, see section 609 of Title 47 and Tables.
    The Act entitled ``An Act to protect trade and commerce against 
unlawful restraints and monopolies,'' approved July 2, 1890, referred to 
in the text, is known as the Sherman Act, and is classified to sections 
1 to 7 of this title.
    Sections 73 to 77, inclusive, of an Act entitled ``An Act to reduce 
taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other 
purposes'', approved August 27, 1894, referred to in text, are known as 
the Wilson Tariff Act. Sections 73 to 76 are classified to sections 8 to 
11 of this title, and section 77 was not classified to the Code.
    Act February 12, 1913, is set out as amendments to sections 8 and 11 
of this title.
    The Act entitled ``An Act to supplement existing laws against 
unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes'', approved 
October 15, 1914, referred to in text, is the Clayton Act. For 
classification of the Act to the Code, see References in Text note set 
out under section 12 of this title.

                          Codification

    ``Subtitle IV of title 49'' substituted in text for ``the Act 
entitled `An Act to regulate commerce', approved February 14, 1887, and 
all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto'' on authority of 
Pub. L. 95-473, Sec. 3(b), Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1466, the first 
section of which enacted subtitle IV of Title 49, Transportation.


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-242 added par. defining ``Banks''.
    1938--Act Mar. 21, 1938, amended section generally.
