Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS) is an agency of the University of Tennessee Institute for Public Service (IPS) that provides assistance and training to municipal officials and employees in Tennessee, among them mayors, council members, city managers, city administrators, city recorders, and department heads. [1]
New York Department of Agriculture and Markets, Bureau of Weights and Measures [14] North Carolina Department of Agriculture, Standards Division [15] Ohio Department of Agriculture, Weights and Measures Division [16] Oregon Department of Agriculture, Weights and Measures Program [17] Measurement Canada [18]
Local government training programs are designed for county commissioners, city council members, mayors, city and county managers and planners, municipal and county clerks, financial managers, and others involved in local government. The institute also conducts specific training for newly elected officials in city and county governments.
The Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (established as the Committee on a Uniform System of Coinage, Weights, and Measures) was a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives from 1864 to 1946.
The General Conference on Weights and Measures (abbreviated CGPM from the French: Conférence générale des poids et mesures) [1]: 117 is the supreme authority of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), the intergovernmental organization established in 1875 under the terms of the Metre Convention through which member states act together on matters related to measurement ...
The new law is something that Michiganders asked for last year, when voters passed a package of improvements to voting in a statewide ballot measure labeled Proposal 2, and known as "Promote the ...
The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 is an Act of Congress that was signed into law by U.S. President Gerald Ford on December 23, 1975. [1] It declared the metric system "the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce", but permitted the use of United States customary units in all activities.
In his first annual message to Congress (what later came to be called "State of the Union Addresses") on January 8, 1790 (a few months before Jefferson's report to the House of Representatives), George Washington stated, "Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am ...