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[CITE: 15USC242]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 6--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME
 
                     SUBCHAPTER VI--STANDARD BARRELS
 
Sec. 242. Duty of United States attorney to enforce law

    It shall be the duty of each United States attorney, to whom 
satisfactory evidence of any violation of sections 237 to 242 of this 
title is presented, to cause appropriate proceedings to be commenced and 
prosecuted in the United States court having jurisdiction of such 
offense.

(Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, Sec. 6, 39 Stat. 531; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 
Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 909.)

                         Change of Name

    Act June 25, 1948, eff. Sept. 1, 1948, substituted ``United States 
attorney'' for ``district attorney''. See section 541 of Title 28, 
Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 240, 241 of this title.
