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[CITE: 29USC628]

 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
              CHAPTER 14--AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT
 
Sec. 628. Rules and regulations; exemptions

    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.

(Pub. L. 90-202, Sec. 9, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 605; 1978 Reorg. Plan 
No. 1, Sec. 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1979, 43 F.R. 19807, 92 Stat. 3781.)

                          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, Sec. 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.