Title 29 — LaborRelease 119-73
§628 Rules and regulations; exemptions
Title 29 › Chapter CHAPTER 14— - AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT › § 628
Summary
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission may make rules under the federal rulemaking law and grant reasonable exemptions to this chapter when it serves the public interest.
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Title 29, §628
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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.
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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 Jan. 1, 1979, as provided by section 1–101 of Ex. Ord. No. 12106, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1053.
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29 U.S.C. § 628
Title 29 — Labor
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73