§203 — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Commerce must send exact replacement standard weights and measures, with the NIST seal and a certificate, to any State, Territory, or institution that had them before. The governor (for a State or Territory) or the head of the institution must ask in writing and say the originals were lost or destroyed. The requester must first pay the cost to cover NIST’s expenses. That payment goes into the U.S. Treasury as miscellaneous receipts when the items are turned over for shipping to the people named by the ordering officers.

Title 15, §203

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The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to furnish precise copies of standard weights and measures, bearing the seal of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and accompanied by a suitable certificate, to any State, Territory, or institution heretofore furnished with the same, upon application in writing by the governor in the case of a State or Territory, or by the official head in the case of an institution, setting forth that the copies of standards applied for are to replace similar ones heretofore furnished, in accordance with law, which have been lost or destroyed: Provided, That the applicant shall, before the said standards are delivered, first deposit with the Secretary of Commerce the amount of money necessary to defray all expenses incurred by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in furnishing the same, which amount shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts as soon as the weights or measures are delivered for transportation into the hands of such persons as are designated by the officers ordering the same.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1988—Pub. L. 100–418 substituted “National Institute of Standards and Technology” for “Bureau of Standards” in two places.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Act Mar. 4, 1913, created Department of Labor and renamed Department of Commerce and Labor as Department of Commerce. Act Mar. 3, 1901, provided that Office of Standard Weights and Measures should thereafter be known as National Bureau of Standards.

Transfer of Functions

Act Feb. 14, 1903, transferred National Bureau of Standards from Treasury Department to Department of Commerce and Labor.

§203 Replacing Lost Standard Weights and Measures; Cost