# Substantial Product Hazard List: Extension Cords
> **US Consumer Product Safety Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2015-07-27 · Effective 2015-08-26 · 80 FR 44262
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-18294
- **Category:** final-rule
- **Agency:** US Consumer Product Safety Commission
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 44262
- **CFR reference:** 16 CFR 1120
- **Publication date:** 2015-07-27
- **Effective date:** 2015-08-26
- **Docket:** CPSC Docket No. CPSC-2015-0003
## Abstract

The Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC" or "Commission") is issuing a final rule to specify that extension cords (both indoor and outdoor use extension cords) that do not contain one or more of five applicable readily observable characteristics set forth in the rule, as addressed in a voluntary standard, are deemed a substantial product hazard under the Consumer Product Safety Act ("CPSA").

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/07/27/2015-18294/substantial-product-hazard-list-extension-cords)
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