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[CITE: 15USC204]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 6--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME
 
        SUBCHAPTER I--WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND STANDARDS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 204. Metric system authorized

    It shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ 
the weights and measures of the metric system; and no contract or 
dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to 
objection because the weights or measures expressed or referred to 
therein are weights or measures of the metric system.

(R.S. Sec. 3569.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 3569 derived from act July 28, 1866, ch. 301, Sec. 1, 14 
Stat. 339.


           Study of Metric System by the Secretary of Commerce

    Pub. L. 90-472, Aug. 9, 1968, 82 Stat. 693, authorized the Secretary 
of Commerce to conduct a program of investigation, research, and survey 
to determine the impact of increasing worldwide use of the metric system 
on the United States; to appraise the desirability and practicability of 
increasing the use of metric weights and measures in the United States; 
to study the feasibility of retaining and promoting by international use 
of dimensional and other engineering standards based on the customary 
measurement units of the United States; and to evaluate the costs and 
benefits of alternative courses of action which might be feasible for 
the United States. The Secretary was directed to submit to the Congress 
such interim reports as he deemed desirable, and within three years 
after Aug. 9, 1968, a full and complete report of the findings made 
under the study, together with such recommendations as he considered to 
be appropriate and in the best interests of the United States. By its 
own terms, the Act expired thirty days after the submission of the final 
report.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 205a of this title.
