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[CITE: 15USC224]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 6--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME
 
                 SUBCHAPTER V--STANDARDS OF ELECTRICITY
 
Sec. 224. Establishment of values of primary electric and 
        photometric units in absolute measure; legal values
        
    It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Commerce to establish the 
values of the primary electric and photometric units in absolute 
measure, and the legal values for these units shall be those represented 
by, or derived from, national reference standards maintained by the 
Department of Commerce.

(July 21, 1950, ch. 484, Sec. 12, 64 Stat. 370.)
