FEDERAL · 15 U.S.C. · Chapter 29

Manufacture, sale, or possession within specific jurisdictions; penalty

15 U.S.C. § 1243
Title15Commerce and Trade
Chapter29 — MANUFACTURE, TRANSPORTATION, OR DISTRIBUTION OF SWITCHBLADE KNIVES

This text of 15 U.S.C. § 1243 (Manufacture, sale, or possession within specific jurisdictions; penalty) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering United States primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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15 U.S.C. § 1243.

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Whoever, within any Territory or possession of the United States, within Indian country (as defined in section 1151 of title 18), or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States (as defined in section 7 of title 18), manufactures, sells, or possesses any switchblade knife, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

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History

(Pub. L. 85–623, §3, Aug. 12, 1958, 72 Stat. 562.)

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Effective Date
Section effective on the sixtieth day after Aug. 12, 1958, see section 6 of Pub. L. 85–623, set out as a note under section 1241 of this title.

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