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[CITE: 15USC318]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                   CHAPTER 9--NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
 
Sec. 318. Weather signals on mail cars

    The Secretary of Commerce, in cooperation with the United States 
Postal Service, may arrange a plan by which there shall be displayed on 
all cars and other conveyances used for transporting United States mail 
suitable flags or other signals to indicate weather forecasts, cold-wave 
warnings, frost warnings, and so forth, to be furnished by the 
Secretary.

(Apr. 25, 1896, ch. 140, 29 Stat. 108; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, Sec. 8, 
eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2421, 54 Stat. 1236; 1965 Reorg. Plan No. 2, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318; Pub. L. 91-
375, Sec. 4(a), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 773.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``United States Postal Service'' substituted in text for 
``Postmaster General'' pursuant to Pub. L. 91-375, Sec. 4(a), Aug. 12, 
1970, 84 Stat. 773, set out as a note under section 201 of Title 39, 
Postal Service, which abolished the office of Postmaster General of the 
Post Office Department and transferred its functions to the United 
States Postal Service.
    Office of Chief of Weather Bureau abolished and functions 
transferred to Secretary of Commerce by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1965, eff. 
July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318. Reorg. Plan No. IV of 1940 
transferred Weather Bureau from Department of Agriculture to Department 
of Commerce. For further details, see notes set out under section 311 of 
this title.
