---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 5723"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "5723"
heading: "Enforcement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/5723"
units:
  - "Chapter 83 — Telephone Disclosure and Dispute Resolution"
  - "Subchapter II — Billing and Collection"
---

# §5723. Enforcement


The [Commission](/usc/15/5714.md?p=4) shall enforce the requirements of this subchapter. For the purpose of the exercise by the [Commission](/usc/15/5714.md?p=4) of its functions and powers under the Federal Trade Commission Act [[15 U.S.C. 41](/usc/15/41.md) et seq.], a violation of any requirement imposed under this subchapter shall be deemed a violation of a requirement imposed under that Act. All the functions and powers of the [Commission](/usc/15/5714.md?p=4) under that Act are available to the [Commission](/usc/15/5714.md?p=4) to enforce compliance by any [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) with the requirements imposed under this subchapter, irrespective of whether that [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) is engaged in commerce or meets any other jurisdictional tests in that Act. The [Commission](/usc/15/5714.md?p=4) may prescribe such regulations as are necessary or appropriate to implement the provisions of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–556, title III, § 303, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4192.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Federal Trade Commission Act, referred to in text, is act Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, 38 Stat. 717, which is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 41 et seq.) of chapter 2 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 58 of this title and Tables.