Notes on consumer product safety : US Code - Notes

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2051. Congressional findings and declaration of purpose.
2052. Definitions.
2053. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
(a) Establishment; Chairman.
(b) Term; vacancies.
(c) Restrictions on Commissioner's outside
activities.
(d) Quorum; seal; Vice Chairman.
(e) Offices.
(f) Functions of Chairman; request for
appropriations.
(g) Executive Director; officers and employees.
(h) Omitted.
(i) Civil action against United States.
(j) Agenda and priorities; establishment and
comments.
2054. Product safety information and research.
(a) Injury Information Clearinghouse; duties.
(b) Research, investigation and testing of consumer
products.
(c) Grants and contracts for conduct of functions.
(d) Availability to public of information.
2055. Public disclosure of information.
(a) Disclosure requirements for manufacturers or
private labelers; procedures applicable.
(b) Additional disclosure requirements for
manufacturers or private labelers; procedures
applicable.
(c) Communications with manufacturers.
(d) "Act" defined; coverage.
(e) Disclosure of information regarding civil
actions involving consumer product alleged to
have caused death or injury.
2056. Consumer product safety standards.
(a) Types of requirements.
(b) Reliance of Commission upon voluntary
standards.
(c) Contribution of Commission to development cost.
2057. Banned hazardous products.
2057a. Banning of butyl nitrite.
(a) In general.
(b) Lawful purposes.
(c) Definitions.
(d) Effective date.
2057b. Banning of isopropal nitrite and other nitrites.
(a) In general.
(b) Lawful purposes.
(c) "Commercial purpose" defined.
(d) Effective date.
2058. Procedure for consumer product safety rules.
(a) Commencement of proceeding; publication of
prescribed notice of proposed rulemaking;
transmittal of notice.
(b) Voluntary standard; publication as proposed
rule; notice of reliance of Commission on
standard.
(c) Publication of proposed rule; preliminary
regulatory analysis; contents; transmittal of
notice.
(d) Promulgation of rule; time.
(e) Expression of risk of injury; consideration of
available product data; needs of elderly and
handicapped.
(f) Findings; final regulatory analysis; judicial
review of rule.
(g) Effective date of rule or standard; stockpiling
of product.
(h) Amendment or revocation of rule.
(i) Petition to initiate rulemaking.
2059. Repealed.
2060. Judicial review of consumer product safety rules.
(a) Petition by persons adversely affected,
consumers, or consumer organizations.
(b) Additional data, views, or arguments.
(c) Jurisdiction; costs and attorneys' fees;
substantial evidence to support administrative
findings.
(d) Supreme Court review.
(e) Other remedies.
(f) Computation of reasonable fee for attorney.
2061. Imminent hazards.
(a) Filing of action.
(b) Relief; product condemnation and seizure.
(c) Consumer product safety rule.
(d) Jurisdiction and venue; process; subpena.
(e) Employment of attorneys by Commission.
(g) Cost-benefit analysis of compliance with relief
ordered in action for judicial review of
consumer product safety rule not required.
2062. Repealed.
2063. Product certification and labeling.
(a) Certification accompanying product; products
with more than one manufacturer.
(b) Rules to establish reasonable testing programs.
(c) Form and contents of labels.
2064. Substantial product hazards.
(a) "Substantial product hazard" defined.
(b) Noncompliance with applicable consumer product
safety rules; product defects; notice to
Commission by manufacturer, distributor, or
retailer.
(c) Public notice of defect or failure to comply;
mail notice.
(d) Repair; replacement; refunds; action plan.
(e) Reimbursement.
(f) Hearing.
(g) Preliminary injunction.
(h) Cost-benefit analysis of notification or other
action not required.
2065. Inspection and recordkeeping.
2066. Imported products.
(a) Refusal of admission.
(b) Samples.
(c) Modification.
(d) Supervision of modifications.
(e) Product destruction.
(f) Payment of expenses occasioned by refusal of
admission.
(g) Importation conditioned upon manufacturer's
compliance.
(h) Product surveillance program.
2067. Exemption of exports.
(a) Risk of injury to consumers within United
States.
(b) Statement of exportation: filing period,
information; notification of foreign country;
petition for minimum filing period: good
cause.
2068. Prohibited acts.
(a) Designation.
(b) Exception.
2069. Civil penalties.
(a) Amount of penalty.
(b) Relevant factors in determining amount of
penalty.
(c) Compromise of penalty; deductions from penalty.
(d) "Knowingly" defined.
2070. Criminal penalties.
2071. Injunctive enforcement and seizure.
(a) Jurisdiction.
(b) Products liable to proceeding.
2072. Suits for damages.
(a) Persons injured; costs; amount in controversy.
(b) Denial and imposition of costs.
(c) Remedies available.
2073. Private enforcement.
2074. Private remedies.
(a) Liability at common law or under State statute
not relieved by compliance.
(b) Evidence of Commission's inaction inadmissible
in actions relating to consumer products.
(c) Public information.
2075. State standards.
(a) State compliance to Federal standards.
(b) Consumer product safety requirements which
impose performance standards more stringent
than Federal standards.
(c) Exemptions.
2076. Additional functions of Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
(a) Authority to conduct hearings or other
inquiries.
(b) Commission powers; orders.
(c) Noncompliance with subpena or Commission order;
contempt.
(d) Disclosure of information.
(e) Performance and technical data.
(f) Purchase of consumer products by Commission.
(g) Contract authority.
(h) Research, development, and testing facilities.
(i) Recordkeeping; audit.
(j) Report to President and Congress.
(k) Budget estimates and requests; legislative
recommendations; testimony; comments on
legislation.
2076a. Report on civil penalties.
2077. Chronic Hazard Advisory Panels.
(a) Appointment; purposes.
(b) Composition; membership.
(c) Chairman and Vice Chairman; election; term.
(d) Majority vote.
(e) Administrative support services.
(f) Compensation.
(g) Requests for and disclosures of information.
(h) Information from other Federal departments and
agencies.
2078. Cooperation with States and other Federal agencies.
(a) Programs to promote Federal-State cooperation.
(b) Appropriateness of State and local programs.
(c) Cooperation of Federal departments and
agencies.
(d) Utilization of National Institute of Standards
and Technology.
(e) Copies of accident or investigation reports to
other agencies; conditions.
2079. Transfers of functions.
(a) Hazardous substances and poisons.
(b) Flammable fabrics.
(c) Household refrigerators.
(d) Regulation by Commission of consumer products
in accordance with other provisions of law.
(e) Transfer of personnel, property, records, etc.;
continued application of orders, rules, etc.
(f) "Function" defined.
2080. Limitations on jurisdiction of Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
(a) Authority to regulate.
(b) Certain notices of proposed rulemaking; duties
of Chronic Hazard Advisory Panel.
(c) Panel report; incorporation into advance notice
and final rule.
2081. Authorization of appropriations.
2082. Interim cellulose insulation safety standard.
(a) Applicability of specification of General
Services Administration; authority and effect
of interim standard; modifications; criteria;
labeling requirements.
(b) Scope of judicial review.
(c) Enforcement; violations; promulgation of final
standard; procedures applicable to
promulgation; revision of interim standard;
procedures applicable to revision.
(d) Reporting requirements of other Federal
departments, agencies, etc., of violations.
(e) Reporting requirements of Commission to
Congressional committees; contents, time of
submission, etc.
(f) Compliance with certification requirements;
implementation; waiver; rules and regulations.
(g) Authorization of appropriations.
2083. Congressional veto of consumer product safety rules.
(a) Transmission to Congress.
(b) Disapproval by concurrent resolution.
(c) Presumptions from Congressional action or
inaction.
(d) Continuous session of Congress.
2084. Information reporting.
(a) Notification of settlements or judgments.
(b) Calculation of 24-month periods.
(c) Information required to be reported.
(d) Report not deemed an admission of liability.
(e) Definitions.
2085. Low-speed electric bicycles.
(a) Construction.
(b) Definition.
(c) Promulgation of requirements.
(d) Preemption.