15 U.S.C. § 70
As used in this subchapter—
(a)
The term “person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or any other form of business enterprise.
(b)
The term “fiber” or “textile fiber” means a unit of matter which is capable of being spun into a
yarn or made into a
fabric by bonding or by interlacing in a variety of methods including weaving, knitting, braiding, felting, twisting, or webbing, and which is the basic structural element of textile products.
(c)
The term “natural fiber” means any
fiber that exists as such in the natural
state.
(d)
The term “manufactured fiber” means any
fiber derived by a process of manufacture from any substance which, at any point in the manufacturing process, is not a
fiber.
(e)
The term “yarn” means a strand of
textile fiber in a form suitable for weaving, knitting, braiding, felting, webbing, or otherwise fabricating into a
fabric.
(f)
The term “fabric” means any material woven, knitted, felted, or otherwise produced from, or in combination with, any natural or
manufactured fiber,
yarn, or substitute therefor.
(g)
The term “household textile articles” means articles of wearing apparel, costumes and accessories, draperies, floor coverings, furnishings, beddings, and other textile goods of a type customarily used in a household regardless of where used in fact.
(h)
The term “textile fiber product” means—
(3)
any household textile article made in whole or in part of
yarn or
fabric;
except that such term does not include a product required to be labeled under the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939 [15 U.S.C. 68 et seq.].
(j)
The term “Commission” means the Federal Trade Commission.
(k)
The term “commerce” means commerce among the several
States or with foreign nations, or in any
Territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia, or between any such
Territory and another, or between any such
Territory and any
State or foreign nation or between the District of Columbia and any
State or
Territory or foreign nation.
(l)
The term “Territory” includes the insular possessions of the United States, and also any Territory of the United States.
Notes, amendments, and revision history
(Pub. L. 85–897, § 2, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1717.)
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939, referred to in subsec. (h)(3), is act Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 871, 54 Stat. 1128, which is classified generally to subchapter III (§ 68 et seq.) of this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 68 of this title and Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Pub. L. 85–897, § 15, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1724, provided that: “This Act [this subchapter] shall take effect eighteen months after enactment [Sept. 2, 1958], except for the promulgation of rules and regulations by the Commission, which shall be promulgated within nine months after the enactment of this Act. The Commission shall provide for the exception of any textile fiber product acquired prior to the effective date of this Act.”
Short Title
Pub. L. 85–897, § 1, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1717, provided: “That this Act [this subchapter] may be cited as the ‘Textile Fiber Products Identification Act’.”
Separability
Pub. L. 85–897, § 13, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1723, provided that: “If any provision of this Act [this subchapter], or the application thereof to any person, as that term is herein defined, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of the remaining provisions to any person shall not be affected thereby.”