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[CITE: 15USC203]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 6--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME
 
        SUBCHAPTER I--WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND STANDARDS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 203. Replacing lost standard weights and measures; cost

    The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to furnish 
precise copies of standard weights and measures, bearing the seal of the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology and accompanied by a 
suitable certificate, to any State, Territory, or institution heretofore 
furnished with the same, upon application in writing by the governor in 
the case of a State or Territory, or by the official head in the case of 
an institution, setting forth that the copies of standards applied for 
are to replace similar ones heretofore furnished, in accordance with 
law, which have been lost or destroyed: Provided, That the applicant 
shall, before the said standards are delivered, first deposit with the 
Secretary of Commerce the amount of money necessary to defray all 
expenses incurred by the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
in furnishing the same, which amount shall be covered into the Treasury 
of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts as soon as 
the weights or measures are delivered for transportation into the hands 
of such persons as are designated by the officers ordering the same.

(Aug. 18, 1894, ch. 301, Sec. 1, 28 Stat. 383; Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, 
Sec. 1, 31 Stat. 1449; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, Sec. 10, 32 Stat. 829; 
Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 736; Pub. L. 100-418, title V, 
Sec. 5115(c), Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1433.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-418 substituted ``National Institute of Standards 
and Technology'' for ``Bureau of Standards'' in two places.

                         Change of Name

    Act Mar. 4, 1913, created Department of Labor and renamed Department 
of Commerce and Labor as Department of Commerce.
    Act Mar. 3, 1901, provided that Office of Standard Weights and 
Measures should thereafter be known as National Bureau of Standards.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Act Feb. 14, 1903, transferred National Bureau of Standards from 
Treasury Department to Department of Commerce and Labor.
