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[CITE: 15USC70c]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
   CHAPTER 2--FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; PROMOTION OF EXPORT TRADE AND 
               PREVENTION OF UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION
 
           SUBCHAPTER V--TEXTILE FIBER PRODUCTS IDENTIFICATION
 
Sec. 70c. Removal of stamp, tag, label, or other identification


(a) Removal or mutilation after shipment in commerce

    After shipment of a textile fiber product in commerce it shall be 
unlawful, except as provided in this subchapter, to remove or mutilate, 
or cause or participate in the removal or mutilation of, prior to the 
time any textile fiber product is sold and delivered to the ultimate 
consumer, any stamp, tag, label, or other identification required by 
this subchapter to be affixed to such textile fiber product, and any 
person violating this section shall be guilty of an unfair method of 
competition, and an unfair or deceptive act or practice, under the 
Federal Trade Commission Act [15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.].

(b) Substitution of stamp, tag, etc.

    Any person--
        (1) introducing, selling, advertising, or offering for sale, in 
    commerce, or importing into the United States, a textile fiber 
    product subject to the provisions of this subchapter, or
        (2) selling, advertising, or offering for sale a textile fiber 
    product whether in its original state or contained in other textile 
    fiber products, which has been shipped, advertised, or offered for 
    sale, in commerce,

may substitute for the stamp, tag, label, or other means of 
identification required to be affixed to such textile product pursuant 
to section 70b(b) of this title, a stamp, tag, label, or other means of 
identification conforming to the requirements of section 70b(b) of this 
title, and such substituted stamp, tag, label, or other means of 
identification shall show the name or other identification issued and 
registered by the Commission of the person making the substitution.

(c) Affixing of stamp, tag, etc. to individual unit of broken package

    If any person other than the ultimate consumer breaks a package 
which bears a stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification 
conforming to the requirements of section 70b of this title, and if such 
package contains one or more units of a textile fiber product to which a 
stamp, tag, label, or other identification conforming to the 
requirements of section 70b of this title is not affixed, such person 
shall affix a stamp, tag, label, or other identification bearing the 
information on the stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification 
attached to such broken package to each unit of textile fiber product 
taken from such broken package.

(Pub. L. 85-897, Sec. 5, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1720.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal Trade Commission Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act 
Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, 38 Stat. 717, as amended, which is classified 
generally to subchapter I (Sec. 41 et seq.) of this chapter. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 58 of this 
title and Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 70b, 70d, 70f, 70i of this 
title.
