[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC1516]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 40--DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Sec. 1516. Statistical information
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, Sec. 4, 32 Stat. 826.)
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