§ 318. — Weather signals on mail cars.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC318]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 9--NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
Sec. 318. Weather signals on mail cars
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.
(Apr. 25, 1896, ch. 140, 29 Stat. 108; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, Sec. 8,
eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2421, 54 Stat. 1236; 1965 Reorg. Plan No. 2,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318; Pub. L. 91-
375, Sec. 4(a), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 773.)
Transfer of Functions
``United States Postal Service'' substituted in text for
``Postmaster General'' pursuant to Pub. L. 91-375, Sec. 4(a), Aug. 12,
1970, 84 Stat. 773, set out as a note under section 201 of Title 39,
Postal Service, which abolished the office of Postmaster General of the
Post Office Department and transferred its functions to the United
States Postal Service.
Office of Chief of Weather Bureau abolished and functions
transferred to Secretary of Commerce by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1965, eff.
July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318. Reorg. Plan No. IV of 1940
transferred Weather Bureau from Department of Agriculture to Department
of Commerce. For further details, see notes set out under section 311 of
this title.
