Prize-fight films as subjects of interstate or foreign commerce
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Title
15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter
CH19
Release
119-84
Release Date
2026-04-17
Section Text
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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.
(June 29, 1940, ch. 443, § 1, 54 Stat. 686.)
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