15-U.S.C.-1516
§1516 – Statistical Information
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Title 15 > Chapter 40 > Section 1516
Details
- Reference: Section 1516
- Legend: §1516 – Statistical Information
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
The Secretary of Commerce shall have control of the work of gathering and distributing statistical information naturally relating to the subjects confided to his department; and he shall have the power and authority to rearrange the statistical work of the bureaus and offices confided to the Department of Commerce, and to consolidate any of the statistical bureaus and offices above described. He shall also have authority to call upon other departments of the Government for statistical data and results obtained by them; and he may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as to him may seem wise.
(Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, §4, 32 Stat. 826.)
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 601 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, §1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.
Change of Name
Act Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, 37 Stat. 736, provided that Department of Commerce and Labor and Secretary of Commerce and Labor were to be thereafter called Department of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce.
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15-U.S.C.-1515 in the Legal Encyclopedia: Trade Law
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