---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1001"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1001"
heading: "Prize-fight films as subjects of interstate or foreign commerce"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1001"
units:
  - "Chapter 19 — Miscellaneous"
---

# §1001. Prize-fight films as subjects of interstate or foreign commerce


Every film or other pictorial representation of any prize fight or encounter of pugilists, under whatever name, transported into any [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2), Territory, or possession, for use, sale, storage, exhibition, or other disposition therein is divested of its character as a subject of interstate or foreign commerce to the extent that it shall upon crossing the boundary of such [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2), Territory, or possession, be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2), Territory, or possession enacted in the exercise of its police power.


## Source credit

(June 29, 1940, ch. 443, § 1, 54 Stat. 686.)