15 U.S.C. § 313 — Duties of Secretary of Commerce
submitted 136 years ago by ch. 1266 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 125 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary of Commerce runs weather forecasting and storm warnings for the country. This includes river and flood reporting, seacoast telegraph lines, and marine and farming weather information. The Secretary also collects the climate data needed to do this job.
The Secretary of Commerce is in charge of forecasting weather and issuing storm warnings. The Secretary must display weather and flood signals to help farming, business, and navigation.
The Secretary must gauge and report on rivers. The Secretary must maintain and run seacoast telegraph lines, and collect and send marine information to help business and navigation. The Secretary must report on temperature and rainfall conditions for the cotton industry, and display frost and cold-wave warning signals.
The Secretary must distribute meteorological information to help farming and business. Finally, the Secretary must take whatever weather measurements are needed to establish and record the country's climate conditions, or that are needed to properly carry out these other duties.
The Secretary of Commerce shall have charge of the forecasting of weather, the issue of storm warnings, the display of weather and flood signals for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, and navigation, the gauging and reporting of rivers, the maintenance and operation of seacoast telegraph lines and the collection and transmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation, the reporting of temperature and rain-fall conditions for the cotton interests, the display of frost and cold-wave signals, the distribution of meteorological information in the interests of agriculture and commerce, and the taking of such meteorological observations as may be necessary to establish and record the climatic conditions of the United States, or as are essential for the proper execution of the foregoing duties.
Source credit: (Oct. 1, 1890, ch. 1266, § 3, 26 Stat. 653; May 20, 1926, ch. 344, § 5 (e), 44 Stat. 571; June 23, 1938, ch. 601, title XI, § 1107(k), 52 Stat. 1029; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, § 8, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2421, 54 Stat. 1236; 1965 Reorg. Plan No. 2, §§ 1, 2, eff. July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318.)
- 1890Enacted · Act of Oct. 1, 1890, ch. 1266 · 26 Stat. 653
- 1926Amended · Act of May 20, 1926, ch. 344 · 44 Stat. 571
- 1938Amended · Act of June 23, 1938, ch. 601 · 52 Stat. 1029
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