---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2309"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2309"
heading: "Procedures applicable to promulgation of rules by Commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2309"
units:
  - "Chapter 50 — Consumer Product Warranties"
---

# §2309. Procedures applicable to promulgation of rules by Commission

- (a) **Oral presentation—** Any rule prescribed under this chapter shall be prescribed in accordance with [section 553 of title 5](/usc/5/553.md); except that the [Commission](/usc/15/2301.md?p=2) shall give interested [persons](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) an opportunity for oral presentations of data, views, and arguments, in addition to written submissions. A transcript shall be kept of any oral presentation. Any such rule shall be subject to judicial review under [section 57a(e) of this title](/usc/15/57a.md?p=e) in the same manner as rules prescribed under [section 57a(a)(1)(B) of this title](/usc/15/57a.md?p=a-1-B), except that [section 57a(e)(3)(B) of this title](/usc/15/57a.md?p=e-3-B) shall not apply.
- (b) **Warranties and warranty practices involved in sale of used motor vehicles—** The [Commission](/usc/15/2301.md?p=2) shall initiate within one year after January 4, 1975, a rulemaking proceeding dealing with warranties and warranty practices in connection with the sale of used motor vehicles; and, to the extent necessary to supplement the protections offered the [consumer](/usc/15/2301.md?p=3) by this chapter, shall prescribe rules dealing with such warranties and practices. In prescribing rules under this subsection, the [Commission](/usc/15/2301.md?p=2) may exercise any authority it may have under this chapter, or other law, and in addition it may require disclosure that a used motor vehicle is sold without any warranty and specify the form and content of such disclosure.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–637, title I, § 109, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2189.)