---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 34"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "34"
heading: "Definitions applicable to sections 34 to 36"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/34"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade"
---

# §34. Definitions applicable to sections 34 to 36


For purposes of sections 34 to [36](/usc/15/36.md) of this title—

- (1) the term “local government” means—
  - (A) a city, county, parish, town, township, village, or any other general function governmental unit established by [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) law, or
  - (B) a school district, sanitary district, or any other special function governmental unit established by [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) law in one or more [States](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2),
- (2) the term “[person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6)” has the meaning given it in subsection (a) of the first section of the Clayton Act [[15 U.S.C. 12(a)](/usc/15/12.md?p=a)], but does not include any [local government](#1) as defined in [paragraph (1)](#1) of this section, and
- (3) the term “[State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2)” has the meaning given it in section 4G(2) of the Clayton Act ([15 U.S.C. 15g(2)](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2)).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–544, § 2, Oct. 24, 1984, 98 Stat. 2750.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 98–544, § 6, Oct. 24, 1984, 98 Stat. 2751, provided that: “This Act [enacting this section, sections 35 and 36 of this title, and provisions set out as a note under section 1 of this title] shall take effect thirty days before the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 24, 1984].”