---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 202"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "202"
heading: "Repairs to standards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/202"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time"
  - "Subchapter I — Weights, Measures, and Standards Generally"
---

# §202. Repairs to standards


Such necessary repairs and adjustments shall be made to the standards furnished to the several [States](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) and Territories as may be requested by the governors thereof, and also to standard weights and measures that have been or may be supplied to United States customhouses and other offices of the United States under Act of Congress, when requested by the Secretary of Commerce.


## Source credit

(July 11, 1890, ch. 667, § 1, 26 Stat. 242; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, §§ 4, 10, 32 Stat. 826, 829; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Act Mar. 4, 1913, created Department of Labor and renamed Department of Commerce and Labor as Department of Commerce.

### Transfer of Functions

Act Feb. 14, 1903, transferred National Bureau of Standards from Treasury Department to Department of Commerce and Labor.