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Timestamp: 2020-08-04 18:18:00
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1453', '§4', '§107', '§1', '§107', '§3', '§2', '§3']

[USC02] 15 USC 1453: Requirements of labeling; placement, form, and contents of statement of quantity; supplemental statement of quantity
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15 USC 1453: Requirements of labeling; placement, form, and contents of statement of quantity; supplemental statement of quantity Text contains those laws in effect on August 3, 2020
No person subject to the prohibition contained in section 1452 of this title shall distribute or cause to be distributed in commerce any packaged consumer commodity unless in conformity with regulations which shall be established by the promulgating authority pursuant to section 1455 of this title which shall provide that-
(3) The separate label statement of net quantity of contents appearing upon or affixed to any package-
( Pub. L. 89–755, §4, Nov. 3, 1966, 80 Stat. 1297 ; Pub. L. 102–245, title I, §107(a), Feb. 14, 1992, 106 Stat. 13 ; Pub. L. 102–329, §§1, 3, Aug. 3, 1992, 106 Stat. 847 , 848.)
1992-Pub. L. 102–245, §107, which directed amendment of section, effective two years after Feb. 14, 1992, by substituting "weight or mass" for "weight" in subsecs. (a)(2), (4), (5) and (b) and "weights or masses" for "weights" in subsec. (a)(5), by inserting ", using the most appropriate units of the SI metric system as the primary system for measuring quantity" after "panel of that label" in subsec. (a)(2), by substituting "that also displays the avoirdupois system of measure, and that contains" for "containing" in subsec. (a)(3)(A)(i), by inserting "that also displays the avoirdupois system of measure" after "random package" in subsec. (a)(3)(A)(ii), by inserting "that also displays the avoirdupois system of measure" after "linear measure" in subsec. (a)(3)(A)(iii), and by inserting "that also displays the avoirdupois system of measure" in subsec. (a)(3)(A)(iv), was repealed by Pub. L. 102–329, §3.
Pub. L. 102–329, §2, Aug. 3, 1992, 106 Stat. 847 , provided that: "The amendments made by section 1 [amending this section and section 1454 of this title] shall take effect on February 14, 1994. The amendments made by section 1 shall have no effect on the sale or distribution of products whose labels have been printed before such effective date. Nothing in the amendments made by section 1 shall apply to unit pricing, advertising, recipe programs, nutrition labeling, or other general pricing information. Nothing in the amendments made by section 1 shall be construed to require changes in package size or to affect in any way the size of packages."
Section 107(b) of Pub. L. 102–245, which provided that section 107 of Pub. L. 102–245 which amended this section and section 1454 of this title was to take effect 2 years after Feb. 14, 1992, was repealed by Pub. L. 102–329, §3, Aug. 3, 1992, 106 Stat. 848 .