{"identifier":"/us/usc/t15/s1681x","title":15,"num":"\u00a7\u202f1681x.","heading":"Corporate and technological circumvention prohibited","text":"\u00a7\u202f1681x.\nCorporate and technological circumvention prohibited\nThe Commission shall prescribe regulations, to become effective not later than 90 days after\n(1) by means of a corporate reorganization or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, dissolution, divestiture, or asset sale of a consumer reporting agency; or\n(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\nsection 1681a(p) of this title\nsection 1681a(p) of this title","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t15/s1681x.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t15/s1681x","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f1681x."},{"t":"heading","text":"Corporate and technological circumvention prohibited","tail":"\n"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"The Commission shall prescribe regulations, to become effective not later than 90 days after ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"December 4, 2003","tail":", to prevent a consumer reporting agency from circumventing or evading treatment as a consumer reporting agency described in "},{"t":"ref","text":"section 1681a(p) of this title","href":"/us/usc/t15/s1681a/p","tail":" for purposes of this subchapter, including\u2014"}]},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t15/s1681x/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" by means of a corporate reorganization or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, dissolution, divestiture, or asset sale of a consumer reporting agency; or","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t15/s1681x/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" 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 ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 1681a(p) of this title","href":"/us/usc/t15/s1681a/p","tail":", in the manner described in "},{"t":"ref","text":"section 1681a(p) of this title","href":"/us/usc/t15/s1681a/p","tail":"."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}