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

# §205k. Authorization of appropriations; availability


There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter. Appropriations to carry out the provisions of this subchapter may remain available for obligation and expenditure for such period or periods as may be specified in the Acts making such appropriations.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–168, § 13, formerly § 12, Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 1012, renumbered § 13, Pub. L. 100–418, title V, § 5164(c), Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1452.)