Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73not60
§318 Weather Signals on Mail Cars
Title 15 › Chapter 9— NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE › § 318
Summary
The Secretary of Commerce can work with the U.S. Postal Service to set up a plan to put flags or other signals on mail cars and vehicles. Those flags or signals, supplied by the Secretary, would show weather forecasts and warnings like cold-wave and frost alerts.
Full Legal Text
Title 15, §318
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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.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
“United States Postal Service” substituted in text for “Postmaster General” pursuant to Pub. L. 91–375, § 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.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
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.
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Citation
15 U.S.C. § 318
Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60