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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 7 — National Institute of Standards and Technology

§ 277. Regulations

Statutory text

The Secretary of Commerce shall, from time to time, make regulations regarding the payment of fees, the limits of tolerance to be attained in standards submitted for verification, the sealing of standards, the disbursement and receipt of moneys, and such other matters as he may deem necessary for carrying this chapter into effect.

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. Pub. L. 56–872 § 9 · 31 Stat. 1449

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 277

    Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, § 9, 31 Stat. 1450

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, § 9, 31 Stat. 1450

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 9. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, from time to time, make regulations regarding the payment of fees, the limits of tolerance to be attained in standards submitted for verification, the sealing of standards, the disbursement and receipt of moneys, and such other matters as he may deem necessary for carrying this Act into effect.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Act , substituted “Secretary of Commerce” for “Secretary of Commerce and Labor”.

Transfer of Functions

Act , transferred power and authority of Secretary of the Treasury over Bureau of Standards to Secretary of Commerce and Labor.

Credits

1901–1913 · 3 acts
  1. 1901Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, § 9, 31 Stat. 1450
  2. 1903Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829
  3. 1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736.
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(Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, § 9, 31 Stat. 1450; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736.)

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