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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 8 — Fair Labor Standards

§ 209. Attendance of witnesses

Statutory text

For the purpose of any hearing or investigation provided for in this chapter, 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 jurisdiction, powers, and duties of the Administrator, the Secretary of Labor, and the industry committees.

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.

  1. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

    Pub. L. 75–676 § 9 · 52 Stat. 1060

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 209

    June 25, 1938, ch. 676, § 9, 52 Stat. 1065

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1938, ch. 676, § 9, 52 Stat. 1065

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 9. attendance of witnesses For the purpose of any hearing or investigation provided Attendance of witnesses, etc. for in this Act, the provisions of sections 9 and 10 (relating to the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and documents) of the Federal Trade Commission Act of September 16 11So in original., 38 Stat. 722, 723. 15 U. S. C. §§ 49, 50. 1914, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 15, secs. 49 and 50), are hereby made applicable to the jurisdiction, powers, and duties of the Administrator, the Chief of the Children’s Bureau, and the industry committees.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definition of “Administrator”

The term “Administrator” as meaning the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, see section 204 of this title.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Functions relating to enforcement and administration of equal pay provisions vested by this section in Secretary of Labor and Administrator of Wage and Hour Division of Department of Labor transferred to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1978, § 1, 43 F.R. 19807, 92 Stat. 3781, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, effective , as provided by section 1–101 of Ex. Ord. No. 12106, , 44 F.R. 1053.

Functions of all other officers of Department of Labor and functions of all agencies and employees of that Department, with exception of functions vested by Administrative Procedure Act (now covered by sections 551 et seq. and 701 et seq. of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees) in hearing examiners employed by Department, transferred to Secretary of Labor, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his functions by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by Reorg. Plan No. 6 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5.

“Secretary of Labor” substituted in text for “Chief of the Children’s Bureau” by 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 2. See Transfer of Functions note set out under section 203 of this title.

Credits

1938–1946 · 2 acts
  1. 1938June 25, 1938, ch. 676, § 9, 52 Stat. 1065
  2. 19461946 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 1(b), eff. , 11 F.R. 7873, 60 Stat. 1095.
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(June 25, 1938, ch. 676, § 9, 52 Stat. 1065; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 1(b), eff. , 11 F.R. 7873, 60 Stat. 1095.)

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