§ 55. Contract, rule, regulation, or device exempting from liability; set-off

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. 1908

   Pub. L. 60–149 § 5 · 35 Stat. 65

   Enacted · 45 U.S.C. § 55

   (Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, § 5, 35 Stat. 66.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, § 5, 35 Stat. 66.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 5. That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, Attempts to evade liability by contract, etc., void. the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by this Act, shall to that extent be void: Provided, That in any Proviso. Certain contributions by employers to be deducted. action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this Act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity that may have been paid to the injured employee or the person entitled thereto on account of the injury or death for which said action was brought.

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