15 U.S.C. § 318 — Weather signals on mail cars

submitted 130 years ago by ch. 140 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 56 words · no verdicts yet

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The Secretary of Commerce can work with the Postal Service on a weather-signal plan. Mail vehicles would display flags or signals showing forecasts and warnings. The Secretary supplies these signals.

This section lets the Secretary of Commerce use mail vehicles to display weather warnings. Working with the United States Postal Service, the Secretary of Commerce may set up a plan to display flags or other signals on mail cars and other mail-transporting vehicles. These signals show things like weather forecasts, cold-wave warnings, and frost warnings. The Secretary is the one who furnishes the signals used.

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

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.

Source credit: (Apr. 25, 1896, ch. 140, 29 Stat. 108; 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; Pub. L. 91–375, § 4(a), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 773.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1896Enacted · Act of Apr. 25, 1896, ch. 140 · 29 Stat. 108
1970Amended · Pub. L. 91-375 · 84 Stat. 773

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 140 on 1896-04-25.

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