§1812 — Title 29 Labor | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must give a registration certificate, including one as an employee of a farm labor contractor, after investigating and approving someone who files a written application with certain required information. The application must have a sworn statement of the applicant’s permanent home and the contracting work requested; identification of the vehicles and the housing to be used for migrant or seasonal agricultural workers, and if the applicant owns or controls them, proof they meet section 1841 (vehicles) and section 1823 (housing); the applicant’s fingerprints; and a sworn consent that a court may name the Secretary to accept legal papers if the applicant leaves or cannot be reached.

Title 29, §1812

Labor — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Secretary, after appropriate investigation and approval, shall issue a certificate of registration (including a certificate of registration as an employee of a farm labor contractor) to any person who has filed with the Secretary a written application containing the following:

(1)a declaration, subscribed and sworn to by the applicant, stating the applicant’s permanent place of residence, the farm labor contracting activities for which the certificate is requested, and such other relevant information as the Secretary may require;

(2)a statement identifying each vehicle to be used to transport any migrant or seasonal agricultural worker and, if the vehicle is or will be owned or controlled by the applicant, documentation showing that the applicant is in compliance with the requirements of section 1841 of this title with respect to each such vehicle;

(3)a statement identifying each facility or real property to be used to house any migrant agricultural worker and, if the facility or real property is or will be owned or controlled by the applicant, documentation showing that the applicant is in compliance with section 1823 of this title with respect to each such facility or real property;

(4)a set of fingerprints of the applicant; and

(5)a declaration, subscribed and sworn to by the applicant, consenting to the designation by a court of the Secretary as an agent available to accept service of summons in any action against the applicant, if the applicant has left the jurisdiction in which the action is commenced or otherwise has become unavailable to accept service.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective 90 days from Jan. 14, 1983, see section 524 of Pub. L. 97–470, set out as a note under section 1801 of this title.

§1812 Issuance of certificate of registration

Summary

Title 29, §1812

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Citations & Metadata