{"data":{"id":"us/15-u.s.c.-234","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"15 U.S.C. § 234","heading":"Standard barrel for fruits or other dry commodity","body":"The standard barrel for fruits, vegetables, and other dry commodities other than cranberries shall be of the following dimensions when measured without distention of its parts: Length of stave, twenty-eight and one-half inches; diameter of heads, seventeen and one-eighth inches; distance between heads, twenty-six inches; circumference of bulge, sixty-four inches, outside measurement; and the thickness of staves not greater than four-tenths of an inch: Provided, That any barrel of a different form having a capacity of seven thousand and fifty-six cubic inches shall be a standard barrel. The standard barrel for cranberries shall be of the following dimensions when measured without distention of its parts: Length of staves, twenty-eight and one-half inches; diameter of head, sixteen and one-fourth inches; distance between heads, twenty-five and one-fourth inches; circumference of bulge, fifty-eight and one-half inches, outside measurement; and the thickness of staves not greater than four-tenths of an inch.","path":["Title 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE","CHAPTER 6—WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc15@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:56:39Z","sha256":"8ef62c48b289bb32f6285fdb6a326869c3a3724fb729ac34341cb4ca7e43867a","source_id":"us","stale":true,"prev":"us/15-u.s.c.-233","next":"us/15-u.s.c.-235"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}