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[CITE: 15USC236]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 6--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME
 
                     SUBCHAPTER VI--STANDARD BARRELS
 
Sec. 236. Variations from standard permitted; prosecutions; law 
        not applicable to certain barrels
        
    Reasonable variations shall be permitted and tolerance shall be 
established by rules and regulations made by the Director of the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology and approved by the 
Secretary of Commerce. Prosecutions for offenses under this section or 
sections 234 or 235 of this title may be begun upon complaint of local 
sealers of weights and measures or other officers of the several States 
and Territories appointed to enforce the laws of the said States or 
Territories, respectively, relating to weights and measures: Provided, 
however, That nothing in this section or sections 234 and 235 of this 
title shall apply to barrels used in packing or shipping commodities 
sold exclusively by weight or numerical count.

(Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 158, Sec. 3, 38 Stat. 1187; 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''.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of all other officers of Department of Commerce and 
functions of all agencies and employees of such Department, with a few 
exceptions, transferred to Secretary of Commerce, with power vested in 
him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his 
functions by any of such officers, agencies, and employees, by Reorg. 
Plan No. 5 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 
Stat. 1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization 
and Employees.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 235 of this title.
