---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 3059"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "3059"
heading: "Unfair or deceptive acts or practices"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/3059"
units:
  - "Chapter 57A — Horseracing Integrity and Safety"
---

# §3059. Unfair or deceptive acts or practices


The sale of a [covered horse](/usc/15/3051.md?p=4), or of any other horse in anticipation of its future participation in a covered race, shall be considered an unfair or deceptive act or practice in or affecting commerce under [section 45(a) of this title](/usc/15/45.md?p=a) if the seller—

- (1) knows or has reason to know the horse has been administered—
  - (A) a bisphosphonate prior to the horse’s fourth birthday; or
  - (B) any other substance or method the [Authority](/usc/15/3051.md?p=1) determines has a long-term degrading effect on the soundness of the [covered horse](/usc/15/3051.md?p=4); and
- (2) fails to disclose to the buyer the [administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) of the bisphosphonate or other substance or method described in [paragraph (1)(B)](#1-B).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–260, div. FF, title XII, § 1210, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 3274.)