---
kind: "unit"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
key: "ch41/schV"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter V"
heading: "Debt Collection Practices"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/ch41-schV"
sections_count: 17
---

# Subchapter V — Debt Collection Practices

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade › Chapter 41 — Consumer Credit Protection

## Sections

- [§1692. Congressional findings and declaration of purpose](/usc/15/1692.md)
- [§1692a. Definitions](/usc/15/1692a.md)
- [§1692b. Acquisition of location information](/usc/15/1692b.md)
- [§1692c. Communication in connection with debt collection](/usc/15/1692c.md)
- [§1692d. Harassment or abuse](/usc/15/1692d.md)
- [§1692e. False or misleading representations](/usc/15/1692e.md)
- [§1692f. Unfair practices](/usc/15/1692f.md)
- [§1692g. Validation of debts](/usc/15/1692g.md)
- [§1692h. Multiple debts](/usc/15/1692h.md)
- [§1692i. Legal actions by debt collectors](/usc/15/1692i.md)
- [§1692j. Furnishing certain deceptive forms](/usc/15/1692j.md)
- [§1692k. Civil liability](/usc/15/1692k.md)
- [§1692l. Administrative enforcement](/usc/15/1692l.md)
- [§1692m. Reports to Congress by the Bureau; views of other Federal agencies](/usc/15/1692m.md)
- [§1692n. Relation to State laws](/usc/15/1692n.md)
- [§1692o. Exemption for State regulation](/usc/15/1692o.md)
- [§1692p. Exception for certain bad check enforcement programs operated by private entities](/usc/15/1692p.md)