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PUBLIC LAW 89-755-NOV. 3, 1966

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(c) The last sentence of section 305(e) of the National Housing Act is amended by striking out "supplementing" and inserting in lieu thereof "supplementary", (d) Section 308 of the National Housing Act is amended by striking out " ( a ] ". (e) Section 512 of the National Housing Act is amended by striking out "or IX " and inserting in lieu thereof " IX, X, or X I ". (f) Section 1001(c) of the National Housing Act is amended by striking out " 'mortgage' " and inserting in lieu thereof " 'mortgagee' ". (g) Section 1 of the National Housing Act is amended by striking out "and X " wherever it appears and inserting in lieu thereof " X, and X I ". (h) Section 102(h) of the Housing Amendments of 1955 is amended by striking out "section 213 of the National Housing Act, as amended, the Commissioner" and inserting in lieu thereof "section 213 of the National Housing Act, section 221(d)(3) of the National Housing Act, and section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (insofar as the provisions of such sections relate to cooperative housing), the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development", and by striking out "such section" each place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "such sections". Approved November 3, 1966. Public Law 89-755

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AN ACT

To regulate interstate and foreign commerce by preventing the use of unfair or deceptive methods of pacltaging or labeling of certain consumer commodities distributed in such commerce, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Act may

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be cited as the ^ h air Packaging and liabeling Act". DECLARATION OF POLICY

SEC. 2. Informed consumers are essential to the fair and efficient functioning of a free market economy. Packages and their labels should enable consumers to obtain accurate information as to the quantity of the contents and should facilitate value comparisons. Therefore, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to assist consumers and manufacturers in reaching these goals in the marketing of consumer goods. P R O H I B I T I O N OF U N F A I R A N D DECEPTIVE P A C K A G I N G A N D I>ABELING

SEC. 3. (a) I t shall be unlawful for any person engaged in the packaging or labeling of any consumer commodity (as defined in this Act) for distribution in commerce, or for any person (other than a common carrier for hire, a contract carrier for hire, or a freight forwarder for hire) engaged in the distribution in commerce of any packaged or labeled consumer commodity, to distribute or to cause to be distributed in commerce any such commodity if such commodity is contained in a package, or if there is affixed to tnat commodity a label, which does not conform to the provisions of this Act and of regulations promulgated under the authority of this Act.

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