§ 70. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC70]
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. 70. Definitions
As used in this subchapter--
(a) The term ``person'' means an individual, partnership,
corporation, association or any other form of business enterprise.
(b) The term ``fiber'' or ``textile fiber'' means a unit of matter
which is capable of being spun into a yarn or made into a fabric by
bonding or by interlacing in a variety of methods including weaving,
knitting, braiding, felting, twisting, or webbing, and which is the
basic structural element of textile products.
(c) The term ``natural fiber'' means any fiber that exists as such
in the natural state.
(d) The term ``manufactured fiber'' means any fiber derived by a
process of manufacture from any substance which, at any point in the
manufacturing process, is not a fiber.
(e) The term ``yarn'' means a strand of textile fiber in a form
suitable for weaving, knitting, braiding, felting, webbing, or otherwise
fabricating into a fabric.
(f) The term ``fabric'' means any material woven, knitted, felted,
or otherwise produced from, or in combination with, any natural or
manufactured fiber, yarn, or substitute therefor.
(g) The term ``household textile articles'' means articles of
wearing apparel, costumes and accessories, draperies, floor coverings,
furnishings, beddings, and other textile goods of a type customarily
used in a household regardless of where used in fact.
(h) The term ``textile fiber product'' means--
(1) any fiber, whether in the finished or unfinished state, used
or intended for use in household textile articles;
(2) any yarn or fabric, whether in the finished or unfinished
state, used or intended for use in household textile articles; and
(3) any household textile article made in whole or in part of
yarn or fabric;
except that such term does not include a product required to be labeled
under the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939 [15 U.S.C. 68 et seq.].
(i) The term ``affixed'' means attached to the textile fiber product
in any manner.
(j) The term ``Commission'' means the Federal Trade Commission.
(k) The term ``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.
(l) The term ``Territory'' includes the insular possessions of the
United States, and also any Territory of the United States.
(m) The term ``ultimate consumer'' means a person who obtains a
textile fiber product by purchase or exchange with no intent to sell or
exchange such textile fiber product in any form.
(Pub. L. 85-897, Sec. 2, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1717.)
References in Text
The Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939, referred to in subsec.
(h)(3), is act Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 871, 54 Stat. 1128, as amended, which
is classified generally to subchapter III (Sec. 68 et seq.) of this
chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short
Title note set out under section 68 of this title and Tables.
Effective Date
Section 15 of Pub. L. 85-897 provided that: ``This Act [this
subchapter] shall take effect eighteen months after enactment [Sept. 2,
1958], except for the promulgation of rules and regulations by the
Commission, which shall be promulgated within nine months after the
enactment of this Act. The Commission shall provide for the exception of
any textile fiber product acquired prior to the effective date of this
Act.''
Short Title
Section 1 of Pub. L. 85-897 provided: ``That this Act [this
subchapter] may be cited as the `Textile Fiber Products Identification
Act'.''
Separability
Section 13 of Pub. L. 85-897 provided that: ``If any provision of
this Act [this subchapter], or the application thereof to any person, as
that term is herein defined, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act
and the application of the remaining provisions to any person shall not
be affected thereby.''
