15 U.S.C. § 236
Variations from standard permitted; prosecutions; law not applicable to certain barrels
United States · Title 15 — COMMERCE AND TRADE · Status: effective
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- 15 U.S.C. § 236, Variations from standard permitted; prosecutions; law not applicable to certain barrels, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/440294
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Reasonable variations shall be permitted and tolerance shall be established by rules and regulations made by the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and approved by the Secretary of Commerce. Prosecutions for offenses under this section or sections 234 or 235 of this title may be begun upon complaint of local sealers of weights and measures or other officers of the several States and Territories appointed to enforce the laws of the said States or Territories, respectively, relating to weights and measures: Provided, however, That nothing in this section or sections 234 and 235 of this title shall apply to barrels used in packing or shipping commodities sold exclusively by weight or numerical count.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally