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Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "15 U.S.C. § 1681x"
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description: "Corporate and technological circumvention prohibited"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 15
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title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
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chapter_number: "41"
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chapter_name: "CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION"
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section: "1681x"
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citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1681x"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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# 15 U.S.C. § 1681x - Corporate and technological circumvention prohibited
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## Text
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The Commission shall prescribe regulations, to become effective not later than 90 days after December 4, 2003, to prevent a consumer reporting agency from circumventing or evading treatment as a consumer reporting agency described in section 1681a(p) of this title for purposes of this subchapter, including—
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(1) by means of a corporate reorganization or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, dissolution, divestiture, or asset sale of a consumer reporting agency; or
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(2) by maintaining or merging public record and credit account information in a manner that is substantially equivalent to that described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 1681a(p) of this title, in the manner described in section 1681a(p) of this title.
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(Pub. L. 90–321, title VI, § 629, as added Pub. L. 108–159, title II, § 211(b), Dec. 4, 2003, 117 Stat. 1970.)
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## Notes
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
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Effective DateSection subject to joint regulations establishing effective dates as prescribed by Federal Reserve Board and Federal Trade Commission, except as otherwise provided, see section 3 of Pub. L. 108–159, set out as an Effective Date of 2003 Amendment note under section 1681 of this title.
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