Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time
§ 242. Duty of United States attorney to enforce law
Statutory text
It shall be the duty of each United States attorney, to whom satisfactory evidence of any violation of sections 237 to 242 of this title is presented, to cause appropriate proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted in the United States court having jurisdiction of such offense.
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 § 6 · 39 Stat. 530
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 242
Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 6, 39 Stat. 531
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 6, 39 Stat. 531Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 6. That it shall be the duty of each district attorney, to whom Prosecutions. satisfactory evidence of any violation of this Act is presented, to cause appropriate proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted in the United States court having jurisdiction of such offense: Provided, Proviso. Penalities effective January 1, 1917. however, That the penal provisions of this Act shall not take effect until January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Act , eff. , substituted “United States attorney” for “district attorney”. See section 541 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
Credits
1916–1948 · 2 acts
- 1916Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 6, 39 Stat. 531
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 1, 62 Stat. 909.
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(Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 6, 39 Stat. 531; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 1, 62 Stat. 909.)