Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 9 — National Weather Service
§ 326. Maintenance of printing office in Washington, D.C.
Statutory text
When so specified in appropriation Acts, the National Weather Service is authorized to maintain a printing office in the city of Washington for the printing of weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications: Provided, That no printing shall be done by the National Weather Service which could be done at the Government Publishing Office without impairing the service of said Service.
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. 80–373 § 2 · 62 Stat. 286
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 326
June 2, 1948, ch. 373, § 2, 62 Stat. 286
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 2, 1948, ch. 373, § 2, 62 Stat. 286Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. When so specified in appropriation Acts, the Weather Bureau is authorized to maintain a printing office in the city of Washington for the printing of weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications: Provided, That no printing shall be done by the Weather Bureau which could be done at the Government Printing Office without impairing the service of said Bureau.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Government Publishing Office” substituted for “Government Printing Office” in text on authority of section 1301(b) of Pub. L. 113–235, set out as a note preceding section 301 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Weather Bureau consolidated with Coast and Geodetic Survey to form new agency in Department of Commerce known as Environmental Science Services Administration by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1965, eff. , 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318, set out as a note under section 311 of this title. Functions of Bureau and Chief of Bureau transferred to Secretary of Commerce by Reorg. Plan. Subsequently, Environmental Science Services Administration abolished and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration established. By Department Organization Order 25–5A, Secretary delegated to NOAA his functions under this chapter of the Code. By order of Acting Associate Administrator of NOAA, organizational name of Weather Bureau changed to National Weather Service. For further details, see Codification note set out under section 311 of this title.
Credits
1948–2014 · 4 acts
- 1948June 2, 1948, ch. 373, § 2, 62 Stat. 286
- 19651965 Reorg. Plan No. 2, eff. , 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318
- 19701970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. , 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090
- 2014Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), , 128 Stat. 2537.
Show as published
(June 2, 1948, ch. 373, § 2, 62 Stat. 286; 1965 Reorg. Plan No. 2, eff. , 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. , 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), , 128 Stat. 2537.)