15 U.S.C. § 1153 — Rules, regulations, and fees
submitted 76 years ago by ch. 936 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 175 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary may issue rules and charge reasonable fees to carry out this chapter. The chapter favors services paying for themselves and prevents special-use publications from being charged to the public, but does not require fees for Federal agencies or specified public-benefit and reciprocal publications.
The Secretary may issue, change, or cancel orders, rules, and regulations needed to carry out this chapter. The Secretary may set reasonable fees or charges for services and documents or publications provided under it. As far as feasible and consistent with this chapter’s goals, each service and function should pay for itself or recover its own costs. The public should not pay for publications or services specially benefiting private groups or people. But this does not require fees for services or publications supplied to a Federal agency or instrumentality, publications exchanged under reciprocal information arrangements, or publications issued mainly for the public’s general benefit.
The Secretary is authorized to make, amend, and rescind such orders, rules, and regulations as he may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, and to establish, from time to time, a schedule or schedules of reasonable fees or charges for services performed or for documents or other publications furnished under this chapter.
It is the policy of this chapter, to the fullest extent feasible and consistent with the objectives of this chapter, that each of the services and functions provided herein shall be self-sustaining or self-liquidating and that the general public shall not bear the cost of publications and other services which are for the special use and benefit of private groups and individuals; but nothing herein shall be construed to require the levying of fees or charges for services performed or publications furnished to any agency or instrumentality of the Federal Government, or for publications which are distributed pursuant to reciprocal arrangements for the exchange of information or which are otherwise issued primarily for the general benefit of the public.
Source credit: (Sept. 9, 1950, ch. 936, § 3, 64 Stat. 823; Pub. L. 91–412, § 3(e), Sept. 25, 1970, 84 Stat. 864.)
- 1950Enacted · Act of Sept. 9, 1950, ch. 936 · 64 Stat. 823
- 1970Amended · Pub. L. 91-412 · 84 Stat. 864
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 936 on 1950-09-09.
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