Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-102

§2415 Powers of the Center

Title 15 › CHAPTER 51 — NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE › SUBCHAPTER II — NATIONAL CENTER FOR PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE › § 2415

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Center can make contracts or funding agreements to do its work. It can hold or pay for conferences, meetings, workshops, or other events with public or private partners to share information it collects. The Center can study issues and give advice to the President and Congress. It can run programs and get facilities to collect, organize, analyze, and report data, and do other needed studies and reports.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §2415

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In carrying out its functions, the Center is authorized—
(1)to enter into contracts or other funding arrangements, or modifications thereof, in order to carry out the provisions of this chapter;
(2)to organize and conduct, directly by contract or other funding arrangements with other public agencies or private organizations, conferences, meetings, seminars, workshops, or other forums for the presentation and dissemination of relevant information generated or collected pursuant to the provisions of this chapter;
(3)to make such studies and recommendations to the President and to Congress as may be necessary to carry out the functions of the Center;
(4)to implement a program and secure necessary facilities for the collection, collation, analysis, and interpretation of data and information as required in order to carry out the public information functions under this chapter; and
(5)to undertake such other studies, reviews, activities, and to make such recommendations and reports as may be required to carry out the functions of the Center.

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 2415

Title 15, Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102