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title: "19 U.S.C. § 6e"
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title_number: 19
title_name: "CUSTOMS DUTIES"
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chapter_name: "COLLECTION DISTRICTS, PORTS, AND OFFICERS"
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citation: "19 U.S.C. § 6e"
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# 19 U.S.C. § 6e - Overtime compensation based on standard or daylight saving time

## Text

On and after June 30, 1949, overtime compensation of customs officers and employees, as authorized by law, shall be based either on standard or daylight saving time, whichever is observed where overtime services are performed.

(June 30, 1949, ch. 286, title I, 63 Stat. 360.)