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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 18 — Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation

§ 929. Record of injury or death

Statutory text

Every employer shall keep a record in respect of any injury to an employee. Such record shall contain such information of disease, other disability, or death in respect of such injury as the Secretary may by regulation require, and shall be available to inspection by the Secretary or by any State authority at such times and under such conditions as the Secretary may by regulation prescribe.

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. 69–509 § 29 · 44 Stat. 1424

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 929

    Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 29, 44 Stat. 1438

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 29, 44 Stat. 1438

  2. Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act Amendments of 1984

    Pub. L. 98–426 § 27(a)(2) · 98 Stat. 1639

    Substituted · 33 U.S.C. § 929

    Pub. L. 98–426, § 27(a)(2), substituted “Secretary” for “commission”. See Transfer of Functions note set out under section 902 of this title

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 98–426, § 27(a)(2), substituted “Secretary” for “commission”. See Transfer of Functions note set out under section 902 of this title.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (2) by striking out “commission” each place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof “Secretary”; and

    Effective date note
    Amendment by Pub. L. 98–426 effective Sept. 28, 1984, see section 28(e)(1) of Pub. L. 98–426, set out as a note under section 901 of this title.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–426, § 27(a)(2), substituted “Secretary” for “commission”. See Transfer of Functions note set out under section 902 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 98–426 effective , see section 28(e)(1) of Pub. L. 98–426, set out as a note under section 901 of this title.

Credits

1927–1984 · 2 acts
  1. 1927Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 29, 44 Stat. 1438
  2. 1984Pub. L. 98–426, § 27(a)(2), , 98 Stat. 1654.
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(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 29, 44 Stat. 1438; Pub. L. 98–426, § 27(a)(2), , 98 Stat. 1654.)

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