Volume 68
Public Law 83–434
To amend the Standard Container Act of May 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 685; 15 U. S. C. 257–2571), to provide for a three-eighths bushel basket for fruits and vegetables.
Approved June 28, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Standard Container Act of May 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 685; 15 U. S. C. 257–2571), to provide for a three-eighths bushel basket for fruits and vegetables.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of
Fruit and vegetable 3/8-bushel basket.
the Act entitled “An Act to fix standards for hampers, round-stave baskets, and splint-baskets for fruits and vegetables, and for other purposes”, approved May 21, 1928, is amended by (1) inserting after
“one-fourth bushel” and before “one-half bushel”, the words “three-eighths bushel”, and (2) by inserting after subparagraph (b) an additional subparagraph (bb) reading as follows:
“(bb) The standard three-eighths bushel hamper or round-stave
Capacity.
basket shall contain eight hundred and six and four-tenths cubic inches.”
Sec. 2.
This Act shall take effect immediately after the date of its
Effective date.
enactment.
Approved June 28, 1954.