§ 1544. Promotion of tourist travel

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.

1. 1940

   Pub. L. 76–642 § 1 · 54 Stat. 773

   Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 1544

   July 19, 1940, ch. 642, § 1, 54 Stat. 773

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   July 19, 1940, ch. 642, § 1, 54 Stat. 773

2. 1975

   Pub. L. 94–55 § 2(b) · 89 Stat. 262

   Substituted · 15 U.S.C. § 1544

   Pub. L. 94–55 substituted “shall encourage, promote, and develop travel within the United States, including any Commonwealth, territory, and possession thereof, through activities which are in the public interest and which do not compete with activities of any State, city, or private agency” for “is authorized and directed to encourage, promote, and develop travel within the United States, its Territories and possessions, providing such activities do not compete with the activities of private agencies; and to administer all existing travel promotion functions of the Department of Commerce”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 94–55 substituted “shall encourage, promote, and develop travel within the United States, including any Commonwealth, territory, and possession thereof, through activities which are in the public interest and which do not compete with activities of any State, city, or private agency” for “is authorized and directed to encourage, promote, and develop travel within the United States, its Territories and possessions, providing such activities do not compete with the activities of private agencies; and to administer all existing travel promotion functions of the Department of Commerce”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) The first section of such Act of July 19, 1940 (16 U.S.C. 18) is amended to read as follows: “That the Secretary of Commerce shall encourage, promote, and develop travel within the United States, including any Commonwealth, territory, and possession thereof, through activities which are in the public interest and which do not compete with activities of any State, city, or private agency.”.

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