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type: "LegalText"
title: "15 U.S.C. § 46a"
description: "Concurrent resolution essential to authorize investigations"
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title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
chapter_number: "2"
chapter_name: "FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; PROMOTION OF EXPORT TRADE AND PREVENTION OF UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION"
section: "46a"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 46a"
status: "current"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 15 U.S.C. § 46a - Concurrent resolution essential to authorize investigations
## Text
After June 16, 1933, no new investigations shall be initiated by the Commission as the result of a legislative resolution, except the same be a concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress.
(June 16, 1933, ch. 101, § 1, 48 Stat. 291.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Trade Commission Act which comprises this subchapter.
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.