§ 318. Weather signals on mail cars

Statutory text

The Secretary of Commerce, in cooperation with the United States Postal Service, may arrange a plan by which there shall be displayed on all cars and other conveyances used for transporting United States mail suitable flags or other signals to indicate weather forecasts, cold-wave warnings, frost warnings, and so forth, to be furnished by the Secretary.

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.

1896
Pub. L. 54–140 · 29 Stat. 99
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 318
Apr. 25, 1896, ch. 140, 29 Stat. 108
Source evidence
Code source credit
Apr. 25, 1896, ch. 140, 29 Stat. 108

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

“United States Postal Service” substituted in text for “Postmaster General” pursuant to Pub. L. 91–375, § 4(a), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 773, set out as a note under section 201 of Title 39, Postal Service, which abolished the office of Postmaster General of the Post Office Department and transferred its functions to the United States Postal Service.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Office of Chief of Weather Bureau abolished and functions transferred to Secretary of Commerce by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1965, eff. July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318. Reorg. Plan No. IV of 1940 transferred Weather Bureau from Department of Agriculture to Department of Commerce. For further details, see notes set out under section 311 of this title.

Credits

1896–1970 · 4 acts

1896Apr. 25, 1896, ch. 140, 29 Stat. 108
19401940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, § 8, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2421, 54 Stat. 1236
19651965 Reorg. Plan No. 2, §§ 1, 2, eff. July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318
1970Pub. L. 91–375, § 4(a), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 773.

Show as published

(Apr. 25, 1896, ch. 140, 29 Stat. 108; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, § 8, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2421, 54 Stat. 1236; 1965 Reorg. Plan No. 2, §§ 1, 2, eff. July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318; Pub. L. 91–375, § 4(a), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 773.)