The Secretary shall take, compile, and publish censuses of manufactures, of mineral industries, and of other businesses, including the distributive trades, service establishments, and transportation (exclusive of means of transportation for which statistics are required by law to be filed with, and are compiled and published by, a designated regulatory body), in the year 1964, then in the year 1968, and every fifth year thereafter, and each such census shall relate to the year immediately preceding the taking thereof.
Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 115868 Stat. 1019Pub. L. 85–207, § 871 Stat. 482Pub. L. 88–53278 Stat. 737(, ; , , ; , , .)
Historical and Revision Notes
June 19, 1948, ch. 502, § 162 Stat. 478June 18, 1954, ch. 31568 Stat. 258Based on title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., § 121 (, ; , ).
section 121 of title 13Section was subsection (a) of , U.S.C., 1952 ed. The remainder of such section 121, which constituted subsection (b) thereof, is incorporated in subchapter IV of this chapter.
section 121 of title 1364 Stat. 1263section 4 of this titleAt the beginning, “The Secretary”, meaning the Secretary of Commerce, was substituted for a reference to the Director of the Bureau of the Census, and, at the end, the provision that the territorial scope of the censuses should be determined by the Secretary was substituted for the provision of , U.S.C., 1952 ed., that such determination should be made by the Director with the approval of the Secretary, to conform with 1950 Reorganization Plan No. 5, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, , which transferred all functions of all officers and employees, agencies and bureaus of the Department of Commerce to the Secretary. However, the Secretary, under that plan, may delegate any of such transferred functions, as well as any other of his functions, to any of such officers, employees, agencies and bureaus. See, also, .
section 121 of title 13The reference in , U.S.C., 1952 ed., to the year “1949” as the year for commencement of the quinquennial censuses was changed to the year “1954”, since the former designation is obsolete, and the provision of such section that the census of manufacturers should not be taken in 1949 was omitted as obsolete.
Changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
Pub. L. 88–5321964— substituted “in the year 1964, then in the year 1968, and” for “in the year 1954 and” and struck out provisions which related to the taking of certain censuses in the year 1955.
Pub. L. 85–207section 191 of this title1957— struck out sentence which included the United States and its territories and such possessions as the Secretary might determine in the censuses to be taken. See .
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Census Data on Women Owned Businesses; Study and Report
Pub. L. 100–533, title V, § 501102 Stat. 2697