---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2303"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2303"
heading: "Designation of written warranties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2303"
units:
  - "Chapter 50 — Consumer Product Warranties"
---

# §2303. Designation of written warranties

- (a) **Full (statement of duration) or limited warranty—** Any [warrantor](/usc/15/2301.md?p=5) warranting a [consumer product](/usc/15/2301.md?p=1) by means of a [written warranty](/usc/15/2301.md?p=6) shall clearly and conspicuously designate such warranty in the following manner, unless exempted from doing so by the [Commission](/usc/15/2301.md?p=2) pursuant to [subsection (c)](#c) of this section:
  - (1) If the [written warranty](/usc/15/2301.md?p=6) meets the Federal minimum standards for warranty set forth in [section 2304 of this title](/usc/15/2304.md), then it shall be conspicuously designated a “full (statement of duration) warranty”.
  - (2) If the [written warranty](/usc/15/2301.md?p=6) does not meet the Federal minimum standards for warranty set forth in [section 2304 of this title](/usc/15/2304.md), then it shall be conspicuously designated a “limited warranty”.
- (b) **Applicability of requirements, standards, etc., to representations or statements of customer satisfaction—** This section and sections [2302](/usc/15/2302.md) and [2304](/usc/15/2304.md) of this title shall not apply to statements or representations which are similar to expressions of general policy concerning customer satisfaction and which are not subject to any specific limitations.
- (c) **Exemptions by Commission—** In addition to exercising the authority pertaining to disclosure granted in [section 2302 of this title](/usc/15/2302.md), the [Commission](/usc/15/2301.md?p=2) may by rule determine when a [written warranty](/usc/15/2301.md?p=6) does not have to be designated either “full (statement of duration)” or “limited” in accordance with this section.
- (d) **Applicability to consumer products costing more than $10 and not designated as full warranties—** The provisions of subsections [(a)](#a) and [(c)](#c) of this section apply only to warranties which pertain to [consumer products](/usc/15/2301.md?p=1) actually costing the [consumer](/usc/15/2301.md?p=3) more than $10 and which are not designated “full (statement of duration) warranties”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–637, title I, § 103, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2187.)