Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-102
§1516 Statistical Information
Title 15 › CHAPTER 40 — DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE › § 1516
Summary
The Secretary of Commerce controls collecting and sharing statistics related to the department's work. The Secretary can reorganize or combine the department's statistical offices, request statistics from other federal agencies, and combine, organize, and publish that data as they think best.
Full Legal Text
Title 15, §1516
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The Secretary of Commerce shall have control of the work of gathering and distributing statistical information naturally relating to the subjects confided to his department; and he shall have the power and authority to rearrange the statistical work of the bureaus and offices confided to the Department of Commerce, and to consolidate any of the statistical bureaus and offices above described. He shall also have authority to call upon other departments of the Government for statistical data and results obtained by them; and he may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as to him may seem wise.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 601 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378. Section is based on part of the first par. of section 4 of act Feb. 14, 1903. The rest of the first par. and the second par. of section 4 are classified to section 1511 and 1515 of this title, respectively.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Act Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, 37 Stat. 736, provided that the Department of Commerce and Labor and Secretary of Commerce and Labor were to be thereafter called the Department of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce and that the act creating the Department of Commerce and Labor (act Feb. 14, 1903) was amended accordingly.
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Citation
15 U.S.C. § 1516
Title 15, Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102