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Title 29, LaborRelease 119-110

§1863 Agreements with Federal and State Agencies

Title 29 › CHAPTER 20 — MIGRANT AND SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL WORKER PROTECTION › SUBCHAPTER V — GENERAL PROVISIONS › Part B — Administrative Provisions › § 1863

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can make agreements with federal and state agencies to use their buildings and services, to give them authority (but not the power to make rules) to help carry out this law, and to pay or transfer money to them to cover costs from those agreements. If a State is given that authority, it must have a written plan. The plan must say what jobs the State will do, how it will do them, and what resources it will use, and must promise the Secretary that the State will follow the plan and perform at least as well as the Department of Labor.

Full Legal Text

Title 29, §1863

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(a)Scope of agreements
The Secretary may enter into agreements with Federal and State agencies (1) to use their facilities and services, (2) to delegate, subject to subsection (b), to Federal and State agencies such authority, other than rulemaking, as may be useful in carrying out this chapter, and (3) to allocate or transfer funds to, or otherwise pay or reimburse, such agencies for expenses incurred pursuant to agreements under clause (1) or (2) of this section.
(b)Delegation of authority pursuant to written State plan
Any delegation to a State agency pursuant to subsection (a)(2) shall be made only pursuant to a written State plan which—
(1)shall include a description of the functions to be performed, the methods of performing such functions, and the resources to be devoted to the performance of such functions; and
(2)provides assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that the State agency will comply with its description under paragraph (1) and that the State agency’s performance of functions so delegated will be at least comparable to the performance of such functions by the Department of Labor.

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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.

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Citation

29 U.S.C. § 1863

Title 29, Labor

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110