Federal

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

2,701 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 7304 — Briefings, hearings, witnesses, and subpoenas
• § 7305 — Additional powers
• § 7306 — Disclosure of information
• § 7307 — National Construction Safety Team report
• § 7308 — National Institute of Standards and Technology actions
• § 7309 — National Institute of Standards and Technology annual report
• § 7310 — Advisory committee
• § 7311 — Additional applicability
• § 7312 — Construction
• § 7313 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 74 — Rules and regulations
• § 7401 — Findings
• § 7402 — Definitions
• § 7403 — National Science Foundation research
• § 7404 — National Science Foundation computer and network security programs
• § 7405 — Consultation
• § 7406 — National Institute of Standards and Technology programs
• § 7407 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 7408 — National Academy of Sciences study on computer and network security in critical infrastructures
• § 7409 — Coordination of Federal cyber security research and development
• § 7410 — Grant eligibility requirements and compliance with immigration laws
• § 7411 — Report on grant and fellowship programs
• § 7421 — Definitions
• § 7422 — No regulatory authority
• § 7423 — No additional funds authorized
• § 7431 — Federal cybersecurity research and development
• § 7432 — National cybersecurity challenges
• § 7441 — Cybersecurity competitions and challenges
• § 7442 — Federal Cyber Scholarship-for-Service Program
• § 7443 — National cybersecurity awareness and education program
• § 7451 — Transferred
• § 7461 — Definitions
• § 7462 — International cybersecurity technical standards
• § 7463 — Cloud computing strategy
• § 7464 — Identity management research and development
• § 75 — Retaliation against country prohibiting importations
• § 7501 — National Nanotechnology Program
• § 7502 — Program coordination
• § 7503 — Advisory Panel
• § 7504 — Quadrennial external review of the National Nanotechnology Program
• § 7505 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 7506 — Department of Commerce programs
• § 7507 — Department of Energy programs
• § 7508 — Additional centers
• § 7509 — Definitions
• § 751 to 760h — Omitted
• § 76 — Retaliation against restriction of importations in time of war
• § 7601 — Availability of contact lens prescriptions to patients
• § 7602 — Immediate payment of fees in limited circumstances
• § 7603 — Prescriber verification
• § 7604 — Expiration of contact lens prescriptions
• § 7605 — Content of advertisements and other representations
• § 7606 — Prohibition of certain waivers
• § 7607 — Rulemaking by Federal Trade Commission
• § 7608 — Violations
• § 7609 — Study and report
• § 761 — Congressional declaration of purpose
• § 7610 — Definitions
• § 762 — Establishment
• § 763 — Repealed. Pub. L. 95–91, title VII, § 709(a)(1) , Aug. 4, 1977 , 91 Stat. 607
• § 764 — Specific functions and purposes
• § 765 — Transfer of functions
• § 766 — Administrative provisions
• § 767 — Transitional and savings provisions
• § 768 — Repealed. Pub. L. 95–91, title VII, § 709(a)(1) , Aug. 4, 1977 , 91 Stat. 607
• § 769 — Definitions
• § 77 — Discrimination against neutral Americans in time of war
• § 770 — Appointments
• § 7701 — Congressional findings and policy
• § 7702 — Definitions
• § 7703 — Prohibition against predatory and abusive commercial e-mail
• § 7704 — Other protections for users of commercial electronic mail
• § 7705 — Businesses knowingly promoted by electronic mail with false or misleading transmission information
• § 7706 — Enforcement generally
• § 7707 — Effect on other laws
• § 7708 — Do-Not-E-Mail registry
• § 7709 — Study of effects of commercial electronic mail
• § 771 — Comptroller General, powers and duties
• § 7710 — Improving enforcement by providing rewards for information about violations; labeling
• § 7711 — Regulations
• § 7712 — Application to wireless
• § 7713 — Separability
• § 772 — Administrator’s information-gathering power
• § 773 — Public disclosure of information
• § 774 — Reports and recommendations
• § 775 — Sex discrimination; enforcement; other legal remedies
• § 776 — Repealed. Pub. L. 105–28, § 2(b)(2) , July 18, 1997 , 111 Stat. 245
• § 777 — Economic analysis of proposed actions
• § 778 — Management oversight review; report to Administrator
• § 779 — Coordination with, and technical assistance to, State governments
• § 77a — Short title
• § 77aa — Schedule of information required in registration statement
• § 77aaa — Short title
• § 77aaaa — Contrary stipulations void
• § 77b — Definitions; promotion of efficiency, competition, and capital formation
• § 77b–1 — Swap agreements
• § 77bb — “Corporation of Foreign Security Holders”; creation; principal office; branch offices
• § 77bbb — Necessity for regulation
• § 77bbbb — Separability
• § 77c — Classes of securities under this subchapter
• § 77cc — Directors of Corporation; appointment, term of office, and removal
• § 77ccc — Definitions
• § 77d — Exempted transactions
• § 77d–1 — Requirements with respect to certain small transactions
• § 77dd — Powers and duties of Corporation, generally
• § 77ddd — Exempted securities and transactions
• § 77e — Prohibitions relating to interstate commerce and the mails
• § 77ee — Directors of Corporation, powers and duties generally
• § 77eee — Securities required to be registered under Securities Act
• § 77f — Registration of securities
• § 77ff — Accounts and annual balance sheet of Corporation; audits
• § 77fff — Securities not registered under Securities Act
• § 77g — Information required in registration statement
• § 77gg — Annual report by Corporation; printing and distribution
• § 77ggg — Qualification of indentures covering securities not required to be registered
• § 77h — Taking effect of registration statements and amendments thereto
• § 77h–1 — Cease-and-desist proceedings
• § 77hh — Assessments by Corporation on holders of foreign securities
• § 77hhh — Integration of procedure with Securities Act and other Acts
• § 77i — Court review of orders
• § 77ii — Subscriptions accepted by Corporation as loans; repayment
• § 77iii — Effective time of qualification
• § 77j — Information required in prospectus
• § 77jj — Loans to Corporation from Reconstruction Finance Corporation authorized
• § 77jjj — Eligibility and disqualification of trustee
• § 77k — Civil liabilities on account of false registration statement
• § 77kk — Representations by Corporation as acting for Department of State or United States forbidden; interference with foreign negotiations forbidden
• § 77kkk — Preferential collection of claims against obligor
• § 77l — Civil liabilities arising in connection with prospectuses and communications
• § 77ll — Effective date of subchapter
• § 77lll — Bondholders’ lists
• § 77m — Limitation of actions
• § 77mm — Short title
• § 77mmm — Reports by indenture trustee
• § 77n — Contrary stipulations void
• § 77nnn — Reports by obligor; evidence of compliance with indenture provisions
• § 77o — Liability of controlling persons
• § 77ooo — Duties and responsibility of the trustee
• § 77p — Additional remedies; limitation on remedies
• § 77ppp — Directions and waivers by bondholders; prohibition of impairment of holder’s right to payment; record date
• § 77q — Fraudulent interstate transactions
• § 77qqq — Special powers of trustee; duties of paying agents
• § 77r — Exemption from State regulation of securities offerings
• § 77r–1 — Preemption of State law
• § 77rrr — Effect of prescribed indenture provisions
• § 77s — Special powers of Commission
• § 77sss — Rules, regulations, and orders
• § 77t — Injunctions and prosecution of offenses
• § 77ttt — Hearings by Commission
• § 77u — Hearings by Commission
• § 77uuu — Special powers of the Commission
• § 77v — Jurisdiction of offenses and suits
• § 77vvv — Judicial review
• § 77w — Unlawful representations
• § 77www — Liability for misleading statements
• § 77x — Penalties
• § 77xxx — Unlawful representations
• § 77y — Jurisdiction of other Government agencies over securities
• § 77yyy — Penalties
• § 77z — Separability
• § 77z–1 — Private securities litigation
• § 77z–2 — Application of safe harbor for forward-looking statements
• § 77z–2a — Conflicts of interest relating to certain securitizations
• § 77z–3 — General exemptive authority
• § 77z–4 — Data standards
• § 77zzz — Effect on existing law
• § 780 — Office of Private Grievances and Redress
• § 7801 — Definitions
• § 7802 — Regulation of unfair and deceptive acts and practices in connection with the contact between an athlete agent and a student athlete
• § 7803 — Enforcement
• § 7804 — Actions by States
• § 7805 — Protection of educational institution
• § 7806 — Limitation
• § 7807 — Sense of Congress
• § 781 — Comprehensive energy plan
• § 782 — Petrochemical report to Congress
• § 783 — Hydroelectric generating facilities; lists, transmittal to Congress; construction schedule and cost estimates for expedited construction program; prospective accomplishments from expedited completion of facilities; statement of appropriated but not obligated funds
• § 784 — Exports of coal and refined petroleum products
• § 785 — Foreign ownership; comprehensive review; sources of information; report to Congress; monitoring activity
• § 786 — Repealed. Pub. L. 95–91, title VII, § 709(a)(1) , Aug. 4, 1977 , 91 Stat. 607
• § 787 — Project Independence Evaluation System documentation; access to model by Congress and public
• § 788 — Use of commercial standards
• § 789 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–106, div. D, title XLIII, § 4304(b)(2) , Feb. 10, 1996 , 110 Stat. 664
• § 78a — Short title
• § 78aa — Jurisdiction of offenses and suits
• § 78aa–1 — Special provision relating to statute of limitations on private causes of action
• § 78aaa — Short title
• § 78b — Necessity for regulation
• § 78bb — Effect on existing law
• § 78bbb — Application of Securities Exchange Act of 1934
• § 78c — Definitions and application
• § 78c–1 — Swap agreements
• § 78c–2 — Securities-related derivatives
• § 78c–3 — Clearing for security-based swaps
• § 78c–4 — Security-based swap execution facilities
• § 78c–5 — Segregation of assets held as collateral in security-based swap transactions
• § 78cc — Validity of contracts
• § 78ccc — Securities Investor Protection Corporation
• § 78d — Securities and Exchange Commission
• § 78d–1 — Delegation of functions by Commission