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Title 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADEChapter 6 - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME
Subchapter VI - STANDARD BARRELS
Section 242 - Duty of United States attorney to enforce law

15 U.S.C. § 242

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Current through P.L. 118-107 (published on www.congress.gov on 11/21/2024)
Section 242 - Duty of United States attorney to enforce law

It shall be the duty of each United States attorney, to whom satisfactory evidence of any violation of sections 237 to 242 of this title is presented, to cause appropriate proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted in the United States court having jurisdiction of such offense.

15 U.S.C. § 242

Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, §6, 39 Stat. 531; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, §1, 62 Stat. 909.

STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES

CHANGE OF NAMEAct June 25, 1948, eff. Sept. 1, 1948, substituted "United States attorney" for "district attorney". See section 541 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.