---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1211"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1211"
heading: "Prohibition against transportation of refrigerators without safety devices"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1211"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Household Refrigerators"
---

# §1211. Prohibition against transportation of refrigerators without safety devices


It shall be unlawful for any [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) to introduce or deliver for introduction into interstate commerce any household refrigerator manufactured on or after the date this section takes effect unless it is equipped with a [device](/usc/15/55.md?p=d), enabling the door thereof to be opened from the inside, which conforms with standards prescribed pursuant to [section 1213 of this title](/usc/15/1213.md).


## Source credit

(Aug. 2, 1956, ch. 890, § 1, 70 Stat. 953.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

For date this section takes effect, referred to in text, see Effective Date note below.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Act Aug. 2, 1956, ch. 890, § 5, 70 Stat. 953, provided that: “This Act [this chapter] shall take effect on the date of its enactment [Aug. 2, 1956], except that the first section of this Act [this section] shall take effect one year and 90 days after the date of publication of commercial standards first established under section 3 of this Act [section 1213 of this title]. In the event of a change in said commercial standards first established, a like period shall be allowed for compliance with said change in commercial standards.”

### Transfer of Functions

Functions of Secretary of Commerce and Federal Trade Commission under this chapter transferred to Consumer Product Safety Commission, see section 2079 of this title.