Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time
§ 240. Rules and regulations
Statutory text
Rules and regulations for the enforcement of sections 237 to 242 of this title, not inconsistent with the provisions of said sections, shall be made by the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and approved by the Secretary of Commerce, and such rules and regulations shall include reasonable variations or tolerances which may be allowed.
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. 64–396 § 4 · 39 Stat. 530
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 240
Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 4, 39 Stat. 531
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 4, 39 Stat. 531Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. That rules and regulations for the enforcement of this Act, Regulations, etc., to be made. not inconsistent with the provisions of the Act, shall be made by the Director of the Bureau of Standards and approved by the Secretary of Commerce, and that such rules and regulations shall include reasonable Variations allowed. variations or tolerances which may be allowed.Technology Competitiveness Act
Pub. L. 100–418 title V § 5115(c) · 102 Stat. 1107
Substituted · 15 U.S.C. § 240
Pub. L. 100–418 substituted “National Institute of Standards and Technology” for “Bureau of Standards”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 100–418 substituted “National Institute of Standards and Technology” for “Bureau of Standards”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(c) Amendments to Other Laws.— References in any other Federal 15 USC 271 note. law to the National Bureau of Standards shall be deemed to refer to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1988—Pub. L. 100–418 substituted “National Institute of Standards and Technology” for “Bureau of Standards”.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Functions of all other officers of Department of Commerce and functions of all agencies and employees of such Department, with a few exceptions, transferred to Secretary of Commerce, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his functions by any of such officers, agencies, and employees, by Reorg. Plan No. 5 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Credits
1916–1988 · 2 acts
- 1916Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 4, 39 Stat. 531
- 1988Pub. L. 100–418, title V, § 5115(c), , 102 Stat. 1433.
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(Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 4, 39 Stat. 531; Pub. L. 100–418, title V, § 5115(c), , 102 Stat. 1433.)