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15 U.S.C. § 1001Prize-fight films as subjects of interstate or foreign commerce

submitted 86 years ago by ch. 443 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 86 words · no verdicts yet

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A film or pictorial representation of a prize fight becomes subject to the destination jurisdiction’s police-power laws when it crosses into that State, Territory, or possession.

A film or other picture showing a prize fight or an encounter between pugilists, whatever it is called, that is transported into a State, Territory, or possession for use, sale, storage, exhibition, or another disposition loses its status as interstate or foreign commerce, to the extent that, after crossing the boundary, it is subject to that jurisdiction’s laws enacted under its police power.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Every film or other pictorial representation of any prize fight or encounter of pugilists, under whatever name, transported into any State, Territory, or possession, for use, sale, storage, exhibition, or other disposition therein is divested of its character as a subject of interstate or foreign commerce to the extent that it shall upon crossing the boundary of such State, Territory, or possession, be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State, Territory, or possession enacted in the exercise of its police power.

Source credit: (June 29, 1940, ch. 443, § 1, 54 Stat. 686.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1940Enacted · Act of June 29, 1940, ch. 443 · 54 Stat. 686

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 443 on 1940-06-29.

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