Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/4402?qt-us_code_tabs=2
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 4402', '§ 3', '§ 204', '§ 301', '§ 204', '§ 205', '§ 204', '§ 204']

15 U.S. Code § 4402 - Smokeless tobacco warning | LII / Legal Information Institute
It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, package, sell, offer to sell, distribute, or import for sale or distribution within the United States any smokeless tobacco product unless the product package bears, in accordance with the requirements of this chapter, one of the following labels:
Each label statement required by paragraph (1) shall be—
Required labels (1)
The label statements shall be in English, except that—
The Secretary shall review each plan submitted under subparagraphs (A) and (B) and approve it if the plan—
Television and radio advertising It is unlawful to advertise smokeless tobacco on any medium of electronic communications subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission.
Authority to revise warning label statements The Secretary may, by a rulemaking conducted under section 553 of title 5, adjust the format, type size, and text of any of the label requirements, require color graphics to accompany the text, increase the required label area from 30 percent up to 50 percent of the front and rear panels of the package, or establish the format, type size, and text of any other disclosures required under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, if the Secretary finds that such a change would promote greater public understanding of the risks associated with the use of smokeless tobacco products.
(Pub. L. 99–252, § 3,Feb. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 30; Pub. L. 111–31, div. A, title II, §§ 204(a), 205
(a),June 22, 2009, 123 Stat. 1846, 1848.)
The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, referred to in subsecs. (b)(4) and (d), is act June 25, 1938, ch. 675, 52 Stat. 1040, which is classified generally to chapter 9 (§ 301 et seq.) of Title 21, Food and Drugs. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 301 of Title 21 and Tables.
2009—Pub. L. 111–31, § 204(a), amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section consisted of subsecs. (a) to (f) relating to smokeless tobacco warning labels and television and radio advertising.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 111–31, § 205(a), amended section as amended by Pub. L. 111–31, § 204, by adding subsec. (d).
Pub. L. 111–31, div. A, title II, § 204(b),June 22, 2009, 123 Stat. 1848, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall take effect 12 months after the date of enactment of this Act [June 22, 2009]. Such effective date shall be with respect to the date of manufacture, provided that, in any case, beginning 30 days after such effective date, a manufacturer shall not introduce into the domestic commerce of the United States any product, irrespective of the date of manufacture, that is not in conformance with section 3 of the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act of 1986 (15 U.S.C. 4402), as amended by subsection (a).”
Subsec. (a) effective one year after Feb. 27, 1986, and subsecs. (b) to (e) effective Feb. 27, 1986, see section 11 ofPub. L. 99–252, set out as a note under section 4401 of this title.