Title 29 — LaborRelease 119-73
§9 Authorization of special studies, compilations, and transcripts on request; cost
Title 29 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - LABOR STATISTICS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - SPECIAL STATISTICS › § 9
Summary
If the Secretary of Labor agrees, anyone may request in writing special statistical studies, compilations, or transcripts about employment, hours, wages, and other job conditions. The requester must pay the actual cost of the work.
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Title 29, §9
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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.
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Codification This section and section 9a and 9b of this title comprised sections 1 to 3 of act Apr. 13, 1934. 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 Apr. 11, 1935, and June 15, 1937, and was made permanent by act Apr. 15, 1939.
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29 U.S.C. § 9
Title 29 — Labor
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
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