Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 15 : Section 1681x


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 1681x. Corporate and technological circumvention prohibited

      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 - 
        (1) by means of a corporate reorganization or restructuring,
      including a merger, acquisition, dissolution, divestiture, or
      asset sale of a consumer reporting agency; or
        (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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