Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time
§ 260. Congressional declaration of policy; adoption and observance of uniform standard of time; authority of Secretary of Transportation
Statutory text
It is the policy of the United States to promote the adoption and observance of uniform time within the standard time zones prescribed by sections 261 to 264 of this title, as modified by section 265 of this title. To this end the Secretary of Transportation is authorized and directed to foster and promote widespread and uniform adoption and observance of the same standard of time within and throughout each such standard time zone.
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.
Uniform Time Act of 1966
Pub. L. 89–387 § 2 · 80 Stat. 107
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 260
Pub. L. 89–387, § 2, Apr. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 107
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 89–387, § 2, Apr. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 107Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. It is the policy of the United States to promote the adoption and observance of uniform time within the standard time zones prescribed by the Act entitled “An Act to save daylight and to provide standard time for the United States”, approved March 19, 1918 (40 Stat. 450; 15 U.S.C. 261–264), as modified by the Act entitled “An Act to transfer the Panhandle and Plains section of Texas and Oklahoma to the United States standard central time zone”, approved March 4, 1921 (41 Stat. 1446; 15 U.S.C. 265). To this end the Interstate Commerce Commission is authorized and directed to foster and promote widespread and uniform adoption and observance of the same standard of time within and throughout each such standard time zone.Pub. L. 97–449 § 2(c) · 96 Stat. 2413
Substituted · 15 U.S.C. § 260
Pub. L. 97–449 substituted “Secretary of Transportation” for “Interstate Commerce Commission”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 97–449 substituted “Secretary of Transportation” for “Interstate Commerce Commission”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(c) The Act of March 19, 1918 (15 U.S.C. 261–264), the Act of March 4, 1921 (15 U.S.C. 265), and the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260, 260a, 261–263, 266, 267) are amended by striking out the words “Interstate Commerce Commission” wherever they appear and substituting “Secretary of Transportation”.
2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1983—Pub. L. 97–449 substituted “Secretary of Transportation” for “Interstate Commerce Commission”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Pub. L. 89–387, § 6, , 80 Stat. 108, provided that: “This Act [enacting this section and sections 260a, 266, and 267 of this title and amending sections 261 to 263 of this title] shall take effect on ; except that if any State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any possession of the United States, or any political subdivision thereof, observes daylight saving time in the year 1966, such time shall advance the standard time otherwise applicable in such place by one hour and shall commence at 2 o’clock antemeridian on the last Sunday in April of the year 1966 and shall end at 2 o’clock antemeridian on the last Sunday in October of the year 1966.”
Short Title
Pub. L. 89–387, § 1, , 80 Stat. 107, provided: “That this Act [enacting this section and sections 260a, 266, and 267 of this title and amending sections 261 to 263 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Uniform Time Act of 1966’.”
Credits
1966–1983 · 2 acts
- 1966Pub. L. 89–387, § 2, , 80 Stat. 107
- 1983Pub. L. 97–449, § 2(c), , 96 Stat. 2439.
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(Pub. L. 89–387, § 2, , 80 Stat. 107; Pub. L. 97–449, § 2(c), , 96 Stat. 2439.)