Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 15 > Chapter 2 - Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition

• affixed: means attached to the textile fiber product in any manner. See 15 USC 70
• association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
• Chairperson: means the Chairperson of the Council. See 12 USC 5311
• 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. See 15 USC 68
• commerce: means commerce between any State, Territory, or possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof. See 15 USC 69
• 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. See 15 USC 70
• commerce: means commerce between any State, Territory, or possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof. See 15 USC 45e
• 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. See 15 USC 55
• Commission: means the Federal Trade Commission. See 15 USC 68
• Commission: means the Federal Trade Commission. See 15 USC 70
• Commission: means the Federal Trade Commission. See 15 USC 7710
• Commission: means the Federal Trade Commission. See 15 USC 45e
• Commission: means the Federal Trade Commission. See 15 USC 55
• Commission: means the Securities and Exchange Commission. See 15 USC 64
• contact lens fitting: means the process that begins after the initial eye examination and ends when a successful fit has been achieved or, in the case of a renewal prescription, ends when the prescriber determines that no change in prescription is required, and such term may include&mdash. See 15 USC 7610
• contact lens prescription: means a prescription, issued in accordance with State and Federal law, that contains sufficient information for the complete and accurate filling of a prescription, including the following:

  (A) Name of the patient. See 15 USC 7610

• corporation: includes associations, joint-stock companies, and insurance companies. See
• county: includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. See 1 USC 2
• dealer: means any person who engages either for all or part of his time, directly or indirectly, as agent, broker, or principal, in the business of offering, buying, selling, or otherwise dealing or trading in securities issued by another person. See 15 USC 64
• development: means any or all undertakings necessary for planning, land acquisition, demolition, construction, or equipment, in connection with a low-income housing project. See 42 USC 1396r-1b
• domestic: when applied to a corporation or partnership means created or organized in the United States or under the law of the United States or of any State unless, in the case of a partnership, the Secretary provides otherwise by regulations. See
• fabric: means any material woven, knitted, felted, or otherwise produced from, or in combination with, any natural or manufactured fiber, yarn, or substitute therefor. See 15 USC 70
• families: includes families consisting of a single person in the case of (i) an elderly person, (ii) a disabled person, (iii) a displaced person, (iv) the remaining member of a tenant family, (v) a youth described in section 1437f(x)(2)(B) of this title, and (vi) any other single persons. See 42 USC 1396r-1b
• Federal Trade Commission Act: means the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes" approved September 26, 1914, as amended, and the Federal Trade Commission Act approved March 21, 1938. See 15 USC 68
• Federal Trade Commission Act: means the Act entitled "An Act to create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes" approved September 26, 1914, as amended [15 U. See 15 USC 69
• Federal Trade Commission Act: means the Act entitled "An Act to create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes" approved September 26, 1914, as amended [15 U. See 15 USC 45e
• fiduciary: means a guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, receiver, conservator, or any person acting in any fiduciary capacity for any person. See
• foreign: when applied to a corporation or partnership means a corporation or partnership which is not domestic. See
• foreign commerce: as used in this title , includes commerce with a foreign country. See
• foreign nonbank financial company: means a company (other than a company that is, or is treated in the United States as, a bank holding company) that is&mdash. See 12 USC 5311
• foreign trust: means any trust other than a trust described in subparagraph (E) of paragraph (30). See
• fur: means any animal skin or part thereof with hair, fleece, or fur fibers attached thereto, either in its raw or processed state, but shall not include such skins as are to be converted into leather or which in processing shall have the hair, fleece, or fur fiber completely removed. See 15 USC 69
• fur product: means any article of wearing apparel made in whole or in part of fur or used fur. See 15 USC 69
• Fur Products Name Guide: means the register issued by the Commission pursuant to section 69e of this title. See 15 USC 69
• group: include any committee, subgroup, or representative of such entities. See 15 USC 69g
• 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. See 15 USC 70
• including: when used in a definition contained in this title shall not be deemed to exclude other things otherwise within the meaning of the term defined. See
• income: means income from all sources of each member of the household, as determined in accordance with criteria prescribed by the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, except that any amounts not actually received by the family and any amounts which would be eligible for exclusion under section 1382b(a)(7) of this title or any deferred Department of Veterans Affairs disability benefits that are received in a lump sum amount or in prospective monthly amounts may not be considered as income under this paragraph. See 42 USC 1396r-1b
• invoice: means a written account, memorandum, list, or catalog, which is issued in connection with any commercial dealing in fur products or furs, and describes the particulars of any fur products or furs, transported or delivered to a purchaser, consignee, factor, bailee, correspondent, or agent, or any other person who is engaged in dealing commercially in fur products or furs. See 15 USC 69
• 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. See 15 USC 70
• member agency: means an agency represented by a voting member of the Council. See 12 USC 5311
• narcotic: means opium and coca leaves and the several alkaloids derived therefrom, the best known of these alkaloids being morphia, heroin, and codeine, obtained from opium, and cocaine derived from the coca plant. See 42 USC 201
• nonbank financial company: means a U. See 12 USC 5311
• nonbank financial company supervised by the Board of Governors: means a nonbank financial company that the Council has determined under section 5323 of this title shall be supervised by the Board of Governors. See 12 USC 5311
• oath: includes affirmation, and "sworn" includes affirmed. See 1 USC 1
• offer: shall include every attempt or offer to dispose of, or solicitation of an offer to buy, a security or interest in a security, for value. See 15 USC 64
• Office of Financial Research: means the office established under section 5342 of this title. See 12 USC 5311
• officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
• operation: means any or all undertakings appropriate for management, operation, services, maintenance, security (including the cost of security personnel), or financing in connection with a low-income housing project. See 42 USC 1396r-1b
• organization: means a person other than an individual. See 16 USC 7644
• Pacific Northwest: means (1) the region consisting of the States of Oregon and Washington, the State of Montana west of the Continental Divide, and such portions of the States of Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming within the Columbia drainage basin and of the State of Idaho as the Secretary may determine to be within the marketing area of the Federal Columbia River power system, and (2) any contiguous areas, not in excess of seventy-five airline miles from said region, which are a part of the service area of a rural electric cooperative served by the Administrator on December 5, 1980, which has a distribution system from which it serves both within and without said region. See 16 USC 835-1
• partner: includes a member in such a syndicate, group, pool, joint venture, or organization. See
• person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or any other form of business enterprise. See 15 USC 70
• person: includes partnerships, corporations, and associations. See 15 USC 71
• person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, business trust, or any organized group of any of the foregoing. See 15 USC 45e
• person: includes partnerships, corporations, and associations. See 15 USC 57c
• person: means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint-stock company, a trust, any unincorporated organization, or a government or political subdivision thereof. See 15 USC 64
• person: shall be construed to mean and include an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, association, company or corporation. See
• petty offense: means a Class B misdemeanor, a Class C misdemeanor, or an infraction, for which the maximum fine is no greater than the amount set forth for such an offense in section 3571(b)(6) or (7) in the case of an individual or section 3571(c)(6) or (7) in the case of an organization. See 16 USC 7901
• possession: includes , among other possessions, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. See 42 USC 201
• prescriber: means , with respect to contact lens prescriptions, an ophthalmologist, optometrist, or other person permitted under State law to issue prescriptions for contact lenses in compliance with any applicable requirements established by the Food and Drug Administration. See 15 USC 7610
• project: means (A) housing developed, acquired, or assisted by a public housing agency under this chapter, and (B) the improvement of any such housing. See 42 USC 1396r-1b
• recycled wool: means (1) the resulting fiber when wool has been woven or felted into a wool product which, without ever having been utilized in any way by the ultimate consumer, subsequently has been made into a fibrous state, or (2) the resulting fiber when wool or reprocessed wool has been spun, woven, knitted, or felted into a wool product which, after having been used in any way by the ultimate consumer, subsequently has been made into a fibrous state. See 15 USC 68
• regulated public utility: means &mdash. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Army. See 16 USC 3771
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. See 42 USC 1396r-1b
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Energy. See 16 USC 835-1
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate. See
• sell: shall include every contract of sale or disposition of a security or interest in a security, for value. See 15 USC 64
• Service: means the Public Health Service. See 42 USC 201
• shareholder: includes a member in an association, joint-stock company, or insurance company. See
• special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States: as used in this title , includes:

  (1) The high seas, any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, and any vessel belonging in whole or in part to the United States or any citizen thereof, or to any corporation created by or under the laws of the United States, or of any State, Territory, District, or possession thereof, when such vessel is within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State. See 16 USC 7151

• State: means the State of Louisiana. See 16 USC 3771
• State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
• State: includes the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the territories and possessions of the United States, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. See 42 USC 1396r-1b
• State: includes a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See 15 USC 7710
• State: means any of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. See
• State: shall be construed to include the District of Columbia, where such construction is necessary to carry out provisions of this title. See
• stock: includes shares in an association, joint-stock company, or insurance company. See
• subscription: includes a mark when the person making the same intended it as such. See 1 USC 1
• subsidiary: include only the United States activities and subsidiaries of such foreign company, except as otherwise provided. See 12 USC 5311
• Surgeon General: means the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. See 42 USC 201
• Tax Court: means the United States Tax Court. See
• taxable year: means the calendar year, or the fiscal year ending during such calendar year, upon the basis of which the taxable income is computed under subtitle A. See
• taxpayer: means any person subject to any internal revenue tax. See
• Territory: includes the insular possessions of the United States, and also any Territory of the United States. See 15 USC 70
• Territory: includes the insular possessions of the United States, and also any Territory of the United States. See 15 USC 55
• Territory: means Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the insular possessions of the United States. See 15 USC 64
• Territory: includes the insular possessions of the United States and also any Territory of the United States. See 15 USC 68
• 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. See 15 USC 70
• textile fiber product: means &mdash. See 15 USC 70
• trade or business: includes the performance of the functions of a public office. See
• transaction: includes a series of transactions. See
• trust: shall include only a trust where the interest or interests of the beneficiary or beneficiaries are evidenced by a security. See 15 USC 64
• 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. See 15 USC 70
• United States: means the several States, the District of Columbia, and the Territories and possessions of the United States. See 15 USC 69
• United States: as used in this title in a territorial sense, includes all places and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, except the Canal Zone. See 16 USC 7143a
• United States: means the several States, the District of Columbia, and the Territories and possessions of the United States. See 15 USC 45e
• United States: when used in a geographical sense includes only the States and the District of Columbia. See
• used fur: means fur in any form which has been worn or used by an ultimate consumer. See 15 USC 69
• vehicle: includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land. See 1 USC 4
• vessel: includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. See 1 USC 3
• waste fur: means the ears, throats, or scrap pieces which have been severed from the animal pelt, and shall include mats or plates made therefrom. See 15 USC 69
• wool: means the fiber from the fleece of the sheep or lamb or hair of the Angora or Cashmere goat (and may include the so-called specialty fibers from the hair of the camel, alpaca, llama, and vicuna) which has never been reclaimed from any woven or felted wool product. See 15 USC 68
• wool product: means any product, or any portion of a product, which contains, purports to contain, or in any way is represented as containing wool or recycled wool. See 15 USC 68
• writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1
• written: shall include printed, lithographed, or any means of graphic communication. See 15 USC 64
• yarn: means a strand of textile fiber in a form suitable for weaving, knitting, braiding, felting, webbing, or otherwise fabricating into a fabric. See 15 USC 70