§ 177. Board of inquiry

Statutory text

Composition

A board of inquiry shall be composed of a chairman and such other members as the President shall determine, and shall have power to sit and act in any place within the United States and to conduct such hearings either in public or in private, as it may deem necessary or proper, to ascertain the facts with respect to the causes and circumstances of the dispute.

Compensation

Members of a board of inquiry shall receive compensation at the rate of $50 for each day actually spent by them in the work of the board, together with necessary travel and subsistence expenses.

Powers of discovery

For the purpose of any hearing or inquiry conducted by any board appointed under this title, the provisions of sections 49 and 50 of title 15 (relating to the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and documents) are made applicable to the powers and duties of such board.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1947
Pub. L. 80–120 · 61 Stat. 136
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 177
(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title II, § 207, 61 Stat. 155.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title II, § 207, 61 Stat. 155.)

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Credits

(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title II, § 207, 61 Stat. 155.)