15 U.S.C. § 262 — Duty to observe standard time of zones

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Common carriers doing interstate business must follow the standard time of their time zone. This also applies whenever a federal law, rule, or deadline depends on time. The Secretary of Transportation decides how strictly this must be followed.

This section is one undivided rule with two parts. First, within each time zone created under this chapter, the zone's standard time must, as far as practical, govern the schedules of all common carriers doing interstate or foreign business — and the Secretary of Transportation decides how far "as far as practical" stretches. Second, this same standard applies whenever any federal statute, order, rule, or regulation talks about the time some officer or department of the government must act, or the time within which someone's legal rights start or end, or the time within which any person under U.S. jurisdiction must or must not do something. In those cases too, the relevant time means the zone's U.S. standard time, as far as practical, again as determined by the Secretary of Transportation.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

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.

Source credit: (Mar. 19, 1918, ch. 24, § 2, 40 Stat. 451; Pub. L. 89–387, § 4(b), Apr. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 108; Pub. L. 97–449, § 2(c), Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2439.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1918Enacted · Act of Mar. 19, 1918, ch. 24 · 40 Stat. 451
1966Amended · Pub. L. 89-387 · 80 Stat. 108
1983Amended · Pub. L. 97-449 · 96 Stat. 2439

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 24 on 1918-03-19.

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