Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time
§ 207. Preparation of standards by Secretary of Commerce
Statutory text
The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and required to prepare suitable standards in accordance with section 206 of this title.
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. 52–221 § 2 · 27 Stat. 746
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 207
Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 221, § 2, 27 Stat. 746
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 221, § 2, 27 Stat. 746Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and required Secretary of Treasury to prepare standard. Variation allowed. to prepare suitable standards in accordance herewith.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Act , created Department of Labor, and renamed Department of Commerce and Labor as Department of Commerce.
Transfer of Functions
Act , transferred National Bureau of Standards from Treasury Department to Department of Commerce and Labor.
Credits
1893–1913 · 3 acts
- 1893Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 221, § 2, 27 Stat. 746
- 1903Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829
- 1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736.
Show as published
(Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 221, § 2, 27 Stat. 746; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736.)