---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 205h"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "205h"
heading: "Compensation of Board members; travel expenses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/205h"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time"
  - "Subchapter II — Metric Conversion"
---

# §205h. Compensation of Board members; travel expenses


Members of the [Board](/usc/15/205c.md?p=1) who are not in the regular full-time employ of the United States shall, while attending meetings or conferences of the [Board](/usc/15/205c.md?p=1) or while otherwise engaged in the business of the [Board](/usc/15/205c.md?p=1), be entitled to receive compensation at a rate not to exceed the daily rate currently being paid grade 18 of the General Schedule (under [section 5332 of title 5](/usc/5/5332.md)), including traveltime. While so serving, on the business of the [Board](/usc/15/205c.md?p=1) away from their homes or regular places of business, members of the [Board](/usc/15/205c.md?p=1) may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by [section 5703 of title 5](/usc/5/5703.md), for [persons](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) employed intermittently in the Government service. Payments under this section shall not render members of the [Board](/usc/15/205c.md?p=1) employees or officials of the United States for any purpose. Members of the [Board](/usc/15/205c.md?p=1) who are in the employ of the United States shall be entitled to travel expenses when traveling on the business of the [Board](/usc/15/205c.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–168, § 9, Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 1011.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### References in Other Laws to GS–16, 17, or 18 Pay Rates

References in laws to the rates of pay for GS–16, 17, or 18, or to maximum rates of pay under the General Schedule, to be considered references to rates payable under specified sections of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, see section 529 [title I, § 101(c)(1)] of Pub. L. 101–509, set out in a note under section 5376 of Title 5.