---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 69g"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "69g"
heading: "Condemnation and injunction proceedings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/69g"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition"
  - "Subchapter IV — Labeling of Fur Products"
---

# §69g. Condemnation and injunction proceedings

- (a) **Grounds for condemnation; disposition of merchandise—**
  - (1) Any [fur product](/usc/15/69.md?p=d) or [fur](/usc/15/69.md?p=b) shall be liable to be proceeded against in the district court of the [United States](/usc/15/69.md?p=k) for the district in which found, and to be seized for confiscation by process of libel for condemnation, if the [Commission](/usc/15/69.md?p=g) has reasonable cause to believe such [fur product](/usc/15/69.md?p=d) or [fur](/usc/15/69.md?p=b) is being manufactured or held for shipment, or shipped, or held for sale or exchange after shipment, in [commerce](/usc/15/69.md?p=j), in violation of the provisions of this subchapter, and if after notice from the [Commission](/usc/15/69.md?p=g) the provisions of this subchapter with respect to such [fur product](/usc/15/69.md?p=d) or [fur](/usc/15/69.md?p=b) are not shown to be complied with. Proceedings in such libel cases shall conform as nearly as may be to suits in rem in admiralty, and may be brought by the [Commission](/usc/15/69.md?p=g).
  - (2) If such [fur products](/usc/15/69.md?p=d) or [furs](/usc/15/69.md?p=b) are condemned by the court, they shall be disposed of, in the discretion of the court, by destruction, by sale, by delivery to the owner or [claimant](/usc/15/7a.md?p=4) thereof upon payment of legal costs and charges and upon execution of good and sufficient bond to the effect that such [fur](/usc/15/69.md?p=b) or [fur products](/usc/15/69.md?p=d) will not be disposed of until properly marked, advertised, and invoiced as required under the provisions of this subchapter; or by such charitable disposition as the court may deem proper. If such [furs](/usc/15/69.md?p=b) or [fur products](/usc/15/69.md?p=d) are disposed of by sale, the proceeds, less legal costs and charges, shall be paid into the Treasury of the [United States](/usc/15/69.md?p=k) as miscellaneous receipts.
- (b) **Grounds for temporary injunction or restraining order; issuance without bond—** Whenever the [Commission](/usc/15/69.md?p=g) has reason to believe that—
  - (1) any [person](/usc/15/69.md?p=a) is volating,[^1] or is about to violate, section [69a](/usc/15/69a.md), [69d](/usc/15/69d.md), or [69h(b)](/usc/15/69h.md?p=b) of this title; and
  - (2) it would be to the public interest to enjoin such violation until complaint is issued by the [Commission](/usc/15/69.md?p=g) under the [Federal Trade Commission Act](/usc/15/69.md?p=h) [[15 U.S.C. 41](/usc/15/41.md) et seq.] and such complaint dismissed by the [Commission](/usc/15/69.md?p=g) or set aside by the court on review, or until order to cease and desist made thereon by the [Commission](/usc/15/69.md?p=g) has become final within the meaning of said Act,

  the [Commission](/usc/15/69.md?p=g) may bring suit in the district court of the [United States](/usc/15/69.md?p=k) or in the [United States](/usc/15/69.md?p=k) court of any Territory, for the district or Territory in which such [person](/usc/15/69.md?p=a) resides or transacts business, to enjoin such violation, and upon proper showing a temporary injunction or restraining order shall be granted without bond.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “violating,”.

## Source credit

(Aug. 8, 1951, ch. 298, § 9, 65 Stat. 180.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Federal Trade Commission Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is defined in section 69 of this title.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of Federal Trade Commission, with certain exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 8 of 1950, § 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1264, set out under section 41 of this title.