---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 278o"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "278o"
heading: "User fees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/278o"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — National Institute of Standards and Technology"
---

# §278o. User fees


The Institute shall not implement a policy of charging fees with respect to the use of Institute research facilities by research associates in the absence of express statutory authority to charge such fees.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, § 30, as added Pub. L. 100–418, title V, § 5161, Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1450.)