Volume 75 · 518
Public Law 87–247
To amend section 17 of the Interstate Commerce Act so as to authorize the delegation of certain duties to employee boards.
Approved September 14, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 17 of the Interstate Commerce Act so as to authorize the delegation of certain duties to employee boards.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That paragraph (5)
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Employee boards.
of section 17 of the Interstate Commerce Act (49 U.S.C. 17(5)) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “When deemed by the Commission to be appropriate for the efficient and orderly conduct of its business, it may authorize duly designated employee boards to perform, under this paragraph, functions of the same character as those which may be performed thereunder by duly designated divisions.”
Approved September 14, 1961.