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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 1 — Labor Statistics

§ 9. Authorization of special studies, compilations, and transcripts on request; cost

Statutory text

The Department of Labor is authorized, within the discretion of the Secretary of Labor, upon the written request of any person, to make special statistical studies relating to employment, hours of work, wages, and other conditions of employment; to prepare from its records special statistical compilations; and to furnish transcripts of its studies, tables, and other records, upon the payment of the actual cost of such work by the person requesting it.

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. Pub. L. 73–118 § 1 · 48 Stat. 582

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 9

    Apr. 13, 1934, ch. 118, § 1, 48 Stat. 582

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Apr. 13, 1934, ch. 118, § 1, 48 Stat. 582

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

This section and sections 9a and 9b of this title comprised sections 1 to 3 of act . Section 4 of that act provided as follows: “This Act shall cease to be effective one year after the date of its enactment.” The act was temporarily extended by acts , and , and was made permanent by act .

Credits

1934–1939 · 4 acts
  1. 1934Apr. 13, 1934, ch. 118, § 1, 48 Stat. 582
  2. 1935Apr. 11, 1935, ch. 59, 49 Stat. 154
  3. 1937June 15, 1937, ch. 349, 50 Stat. 259
  4. 1939Apr. 15, 1939, ch. 71, 53 Stat. 581.
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(Apr. 13, 1934, ch. 118, § 1, 48 Stat. 582; Apr. 11, 1935, ch. 59, 49 Stat. 154; June 15, 1937, ch. 349, 50 Stat. 259; Apr. 15, 1939, ch. 71, 53 Stat. 581.)

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