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Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73

§262 Duty to observe standard time of zones

Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 6— - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IX— - STANDARD TIME › § 262

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Use each time zone's standard time to set schedules for all transport companies that cross state lines or go between countries, as much as possible as the Secretary of Transportation decides. Also, when federal laws, orders, rules, or deadlines set a time for a government action or for anyone under U.S. authority, the time meant is the standard time of the zone where the action happens, again as much as the Secretary of Transportation allows.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §262

Commerce and Trade — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Within the respective zones created under the authority of sections 261 to 264 of this title the standard time of the zone shall insofar as practicable (as determined by the Secretary of Transportation) govern the movement of all common carriers engaged in interstate or foreign commerce. In all statutes, orders, rules, and regulations relating to the time of performance of any act by any officer or department of the United States, whether in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of the Government, or relating to the time within which any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, it shall be understood and intended that the time shall insofar as practicable (as determined by the Secretary of Transportation) be the United States standard time of the zone within which the act is to be performed.

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Amendments

1983—Pub. L. 97–449 substituted “Secretary of Transportation” for “Interstate Commerce Commission”. 1966—Pub. L. 89–387 inserted “insofar as practicable (as determined by the Interstate Commerce Commission)” in two places and substituted “engaged in interstate or foreign commerce” for “engaged in commerce between the several States or between a State and any one of the Territories of the United States, or between a State or the Territory of Alaska and any one of the insular possessions of the United States or any foreign country”.

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 262

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73