Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 40 — Department of Commerce
§ 1519. Annual and special reports
Statutory text
The Secretary of Commerce shall annually, at the close of each fiscal year, make a report in writing to Congress, giving an account of all moneys received and disbursed by him and his Department, and describing the work done by the Department in fostering, promoting, and developing the foreign and domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, and fishery industries; of the United States, and making such recommendations as he shall deem necessary for the effective performance of the duties and purposes of the Department. He shall also from time to time make such special investigations and reports as he may be required to do by the President, or by either House of Congress, or which he himself may deem necessary and urgent.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 57–552 § 8 · 32 Stat. 825
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 1519
Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 8, 32 Stat. 829
Source evidence
Code source credit
Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 8, 32 Stat. 829Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 8. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall annually, Annual report. at the close of each fiscal year, make a report in writing to Congress, giving an account of all moneys received and disbursed by him and his Department, and describing the work done by the Department in fostering, promoting, and developing the foreign and domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, shipping, and fishery industries, and the transportation facilities, of the United States, and making such recommendations as he shall deem necessary for the effective performance of the duties and purposes of the Department. He shall Special investigations mid reports. also from time to time make such special investigations and reports as he may be required to do by the President, or by either House of Congress, or which he himself may deem necessary and urgent.Maritime Act of 1981
Pub. L. 97–31 § 12(7) · 95 Stat. 151
Struck · 15 U.S.C. § 1519
Pub. L. 97–31 struck out references to shipping and transportation facilities
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 97–31 struck out references to shipping and transportation facilities.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(7) Sections 3 and 8 of the Act of February 14, 1903 (15 U.S.C. 1512 and 1519), are amended by striking “shipping,” and “, and the transportation facilities”.
2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 604 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, , 80 Stat. 378.
Amendments
1981—Pub. L. 97–31 struck out references to shipping and transportation facilities.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Act Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, 37 Stat. 736, provided that the Department of Commerce and Labor and Secretary of Commerce and Labor were to be thereafter called the Department of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce and that the act creating the Department of Commerce and Labor (act ) was amended accordingly.
Credits
1903–1981 · 2 acts
- 1903Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 8, 32 Stat. 829
- 1981Pub. L. 97–31, § 12(7), , 95 Stat. 154.
Show as published
(Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 8, 32 Stat. 829; Pub. L. 97–31, § 12(7), , 95 Stat. 154.)