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[CITE: 15USC265]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 6--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME
 
                      SUBCHAPTER IX--STANDARD TIME
 
Sec. 265. Transfer of certain territory to standard central-time 
        zone
        
    The Panhandle and Plains sections of Texas and Oklahoma are 
transferred to and placed within the United States standard central-time 
zone.
    The Secretary of Transportation is authorized and directed to issue 
an order placing the western boundary line of the United States standard 
central-time zone insofar as the same affect Texas and Oklahoma as 
follows:
    Beginning at a point where such western boundary time zone line 
crosses the State boundary line between Kansas and Oklahoma; thence 
westerly along said State boundary line to the northwest corner of the 
State of Oklahoma; thence in a southerly direction along the west State 
boundary line of Oklahoma and the west State boundary line of Texas to 
the southeastern corner of the State of New Mexico; thence in a westerly 
direction along the State boundary line between the States of Texas and 
New Mexico to the Rio Grande River; thence down the Rio Grande River as 
the boundary line between the United States and Mexico: Provided, That 
the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway Company and the Chicago, Rock 
Island and Pacific Railway Company may use Tucumcari, New Mexico, as the 
point at which they change from central to mountain time and vice versa; 
the Colorado Southern and Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Companies 
may use Sixela, New Mexico, as such changing point; the Atchison, Topeka 
and Santa Fe Railway Company and other branches of the Santa Fe system 
may use Clovis, New Mexico, as such changing point, and those railways 
running into or through El Paso may use El Paso as such point: Provided 
further, That this section shall not, except as herein provided, 
interfere with the adjustment of time zones as established by the 
Secretary of Transportation.

(Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 173, Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 1446; Pub. L. 97-449, 
Sec. 2(c), Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2439.)


                               Amendments

    1983--Pub. L. 97-449 substituted ``Secretary of Transportation'' for 
``Interstate Commerce Commission''.


                                 Repeals

    Section 2 of act Mar. 4, 1921, repealed all conflicting laws and 
parts of laws.


 Transfer of El Paso and Hudspeth Counties, Texas, to Mountain Standard 
                                Time Zone

    Pub. L. 91-228, Apr. 10, 1970, 84 Stat. 119, provided: ``That, 
notwithstanding the first section of the Act of March 4, 1921 (15 U.S.C. 
265), the Secretary of Transportation may, upon the written request of 
the County Commissioners Court of El Paso County, Texas, change the 
boundary line between the central standard time zone and the mountain 
standard time zone, so as to place El Paso County in the mountain 
standard time zone, in the manner prescribed in section 1 of the Act of 
March 19, 1918, as amended (15 U.S.C. 261), and section 5 of the Act of 
April 13, 1966 (15 U.S.C. 266). In the same manner, the Secretary of 
Transportation may also place Hudspeth County, Texas, in the mountain 
standard time zone, if the Hudspeth County Commissioners Court so 
requests in writing and if El Paso County is to be placed in that time 
zone.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 260, 260a, 266 of this 
title.
