Title 29 — LaborRelease 119-73not60

§177 Board of Inquiry

Title 29 › Chapter 7— LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS › Subchapter III— CONCILIATION OF LABOR DISPUTES; NATIONAL EMERGENCIES › § 177

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President picks a chair and other members for a board of inquiry. The board can meet anywhere in the United States and hold hearings in public or in private. Its job is to find the facts about what caused a dispute and the circumstances around it. Members are paid $50 for each day they actually work for the board and are reimbursed for needed travel and meal/lodging costs. The board can require witnesses to attend and can demand books, papers, and documents under the rules in sections 49 and 50 of Title 15.

Full Legal Text

Title 29, §177

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(a)A board of inquiry shall be composed of a chairman and such other members as the President shall determine, and shall have power to sit and act in any place within the United States and to conduct such hearings either in public or in private, as it may deem necessary or proper, to ascertain the facts with respect to the causes and circumstances of the dispute.

(b)Members of a board of inquiry shall receive compensation at the rate of $50 for each day actually spent by them in the work of the board, together with necessary travel and subsistence expenses.

(c)For the purpose of any hearing or inquiry conducted by any board appointed under this title, the provisions of section 49 and 50 of title 15 (relating to the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and documents) are made applicable to the powers and duties of such board.

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Citation

29 U.S.C. § 177

Title 29 — Labor

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60