§ 1. — Design and duties of bureau generally.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 29USC1]
TITLE 29--LABOR
CHAPTER 1--LABOR STATISTICS
SUBCHAPTER I--BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Sec. 1. Design and duties of bureau generally
The general design and duties of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States
useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general
and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation
to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women,
and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and
moral prosperity.
(June 13, 1888, ch. 389, Sec. 1, 25 Stat. 182; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552,
Sec. 4, 32 Stat. 826; Mar. 18, 1904, ch. 716, 33 Stat. 136; Mar. 4,
1913, ch. 141, Sec. 3, 37 Stat. 737.)
Codification
Act June 27, 1884, created Bureau of Labor in Department of the
Interior.
Section 1 of act June 13, 1888, created Department of Labor and
outlined its general design and duties, and section 9 of that act
transferred Bureau of Labor to Department of Labor.
Act Feb. 14, 1903, placed Department of Labor under jurisdiction and
made it a part of Department of Commerce and Labor.
Act Mar. 18, 1904, changed name of Department of Labor to Bureau of
Labor in Department of Commerce and Labor.
Act Mar. 4, 1913, created Department of Labor and transferred Bureau
of Labor from Department of Commerce and Labor to newly created
Department of Labor, redesignating such transferred Bureau as Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of Labor, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Labor,
with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 6 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, 15
F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.
