15 USC § 2057 - Banned hazardous products

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identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s2057"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "15 USC § 2057 - Banned hazardous products"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "2057"
section_name: "Banned hazardous products"
chapter_number: 47
chapter_name: "CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 92–573, § 8, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1215; Pub. L. 97–35, title XII, § 1203(c), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 713.)"
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# § 2057. Banned hazardous products

Whenever the Commission finds that—

**(1)** a consumer product is being, or will be, distributed in commerce and such consumer product presents an unreasonable risk of injury; and

**(2)** no feasible consumer product safety standard under this chapter would adequately protect the public from the unreasonable risk of injury associated with such product,

the Commission may, in accordance with section 2058 of this title, promulgate a rule declaring such product a banned hazardous product.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 92–573, § 8, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1215; Pub. L. 97–35, title XII, § 1203(c), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 713.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1981— substituted “may, in accordance with” for “may propose and, in accordance with”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1981 Amendment

Amendment by  applicable with respect to regulations under this chapter and chapters 25 and 30 of this title for which notices of proposed rulemaking are issued after , see , set out as a note under .

### Effective Date

Section effective on the sixtieth day following , see , set out as a note under .