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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 14 — Age Discrimination in Employment

§ 628. Rules and regulations; exemptions

Statutory text

In accordance with the provisions of subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission may issue such rules and regulations as it may consider necessary or appropriate for carrying out this chapter, and may establish such reasonable exemptions to and from any or all provisions of this chapter as it may find necessary and proper in the public interest.

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. Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967

    Pub. L. 90–202 § 9 · 81 Stat. 602

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 628

    Pub. L. 90–202, § 9, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 605

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 90–202, § 9, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 605

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 9. rules and regulations In accordance with the provisions of subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5, United States Code, the Secretary of Labor may issue 80 Stat. 381. such rules and regulations as he may consider necessary or appropriate for carrying out this Act, and may establish such reasonable exemptions to and from any or all provisions of this Act as he may find necessary and proper in the public interest.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

“Equal Employment Opportunity Commission” and “it” substituted in text for “Secretary of Labor” and “he”, respectively, pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1978, § 2, 43 F.R. 19807, 92 Stat. 3781, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, which transferred all functions vested by this section in Secretary of Labor to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, effective , as provided by section 1–101 of Ex. Ord. No. 12106, , 44 F.R. 1053.

Credits

1967–1979 · 2 acts
  1. 1967Pub. L. 90–202, § 9, , 81 Stat. 605
  2. 19791978 Reorg. Plan No. 1, § 2, eff. , 43 F.R. 19807, 92 Stat. 3781.
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(Pub. L. 90–202, § 9, , 81 Stat. 605; 1978 Reorg. Plan No. 1, § 2, eff. , 43 F.R. 19807, 92 Stat. 3781.)

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