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29 U.S.C. § 1861 — Private right of action
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**(a) Maintenance of civil action in district court by aggrieved person** Any person aggrieved by a violation of this chapter or any regulation under this chapter by a farm labor contractor, agricultural employer, agricultural association, or other person may file suit in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the parties, without respect to the amount in controversy and without regard to the citizenship of the parties and without regard to exhaustion of any alternative administrative remedies provided herein.
**(b) Appointment of attorney and commencement of action** Upon application by a complainant and in such circumstances as the court may deem just, the court may appoint an attorney for such complainant and may authorize the commencement of the action.
**(c) Award of damages or other equitable relief; amount; criteria; appeal**
(1) If the court finds that the respondent has intentionally violated any provision of this chapter or any regulation under this chapter, it may award damages up to and including an amount equal to the amount of actual damages, or statutory damages of up to $500 per plaintiff per violation, or other equitable relief, except that (A) multiple infractions of a single provision of this chapter or of regulations under this chapter shall constitute only one violation for purposes of determining the amount of statutory damages due a plaintiff; and (B) if such complaint is certified as a class action, the court shall award no more than the lesser of up to $500 per plaintiff per violation, or up to $500,000 or other equitable relief.
(2) In determining the amount of damages to be awarded under paragraph (1), the court is authorized to consider whether an attempt was made to resolve the issues in dispute before the resort
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**(a) Maintenance of civil action in district court by aggrieved person** Any person aggrieved by a violation of this chapter or any regulation under this chapter by a farm labor contractor, agricultural employer, agricultural association, or other person may file suit in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the parties, without respect to the amount in controversy and without regard to the citizenship of the parties and without regard to exhaustion of any alternative administrative remedies provided herein.
**(b) Appointment of attorney and commencement of action** Upon application by a complainant and in such circumstances as the court may deem just, the court may appoint an attorney for such complainant and may authorize the commencement of the action.
**(c) Award of damages or other equitable relief; amount; criteria; appeal**
(1) If the court finds that the respondent has intentionally violated any provision of this chapter or any regulation under this chapter, it may award damages up to and including an amount equal to the amount of actual damages, or statutory damages of up to $500 per plaintiff per violation, or other equitable relief, except that (A) multiple infractions of a single provision of this chapter or of regulations under this chapter shall constitute only one violation for purposes of determining the amount of statutory damages due a plaintiff; and (B) if such complaint is certified as a class action, the court shall award no more than the lesser of up to $500 per plaintiff per violation, or up to $500,000 or other equitable relief.
(2) In determining the amount of damages to be awarded under paragraph (1), the court is authorized to consider whether an attempt was made to resolve the issues in dispute before the resort to litigation.
(3) Any civil action brought under this section shall be subject to appeal as provided in chapter 83 of title 28.
**(d) Workers’ compensation benefits; exclusive remedy**
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, where a State workers’ compensation law is applicable and coverage is provided for a migrant or seasonal agricultural worker, the workers’ compensation benefits shall be the exclusive remedy for loss of such worker under this chapter in the case of bodily injury or death in accordance with such State’s workers’ compensation law.
(2) The exclusive remedy prescribed by paragraph (1) precludes the recovery under subsection (c) of actual damages for loss from an injury or death but does not preclude recovery under subsection (c) for statutory damages or equitable relief, except that such relief shall not include back or front pay or in any manner, directly or indirectly, expand or otherwise alter or affect (A) a recovery under a State workers’ compensation law or (B) rights conferred under a State workers’ compensation law.
**(e) Expansion of statutory damages** If the court finds in an action which is brought by or for a worker under subsection (a) in which a claim for actual damages is precluded because the worker’s injury is covered by a State workers’ compensation law as provided by subsection (d) that—
(1)
(A) the defendant in the action violated [section 1841(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section1841/b&num=0&edition=prelim) by knowingly requiring or permitting a driver to drive a vehicle for the transportation of migrant or seasonal agricultural workers while under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance (as defined in [section 802 of title 21](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section802&num=0&edition=prelim)) and the defendant had actual knowledge of the driver’s condition, and
(B) such violation resulted in injury to or death of the migrant or seasonal worker by or for whom the action was brought and such injury or death arose out of and in the course of employment as determined under the State workers’ compensation law,
(2)
(A) the defendant violated a safety standard prescribed by the Secretary under [section 1841(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section1841/b&num=0&edition=prelim) which the defendant was determined in a previous judicial or administrative proceeding to have violated, and
(B) such safety violation resulted in an injury or death described in paragraph (1)(B),
(3)
(A)
(i) the defendant willfully disabled or removed a safety device prescribed by the Secretary under [section 1841(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section1841/b&num=0&edition=prelim), or
(ii) the defendant in conscious disregard of the requirements of [section 1841(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section1841/b&num=0&edition=prelim) failed to provide a safety device required under such section, and
(B) such disablement, removal, or failure to provide a safety device resulted in an injury or death described in paragraph (1)(B), or
(4)
(A) the defendant violated a safety standard prescribed by the Secretary under [section 1841(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section1841/b&num=0&edition=prelim),
(B) such safety violation resulted in an injury or death described in paragraph (1)(B), and
(C) the defendant at the time of the violation of [section 1841(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section1841/b&num=0&edition=prelim) also was—
(i) an unregistered farm labor contractor in violation of [section 1811(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section1811/a&num=0&edition=prelim), or
(ii) a person who utilized the services of a farm labor contractor of the type specified in clause (i) without taking reasonable steps to determine that the farm labor contractor possessed a valid certificate of registration authorizing the performance of the farm labor contracting activities which the contractor was requested or permitted to perform with the knowledge of such person,
the court shall award not more than $10,000 per plaintiff per violation with respect to whom the court made the finding described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4), except that multiple infractions of a single provision of this chapter shall constitute only one violation for purposes of determining the amount of statutory damages due to a plaintiff under this subsection and in the case of a class action, the court shall award not more than the lesser of up to $10,000 per plaintiff or up to $500,000 for all plaintiffs in such class action.
**(f) Tolling of statute of limitations** If it is determined under a State workers’ compensation law that the workers’ compensation law is not applicable to a claim for bodily injury or death of a migrant or seasonal agricultural worker, the statute of limitations for bringing an action for actual damages for such injury or death under subsection (a) shall be tolled for the period during which the claim for such injury or death under such State workers’ compensation law was pending. The statute of limitations for an action for other actual damages, statutory damages, or equitable relief arising out of the same transaction or occurrence as the injury or death of the migrant or seasonal agricultural worker shall be tolled for the period during which the claim for such injury or death was pending under the State workers’ compensation law.
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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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As used in this subchapter:
(1) The term “addict” means any individual who habitually uses any narcotic drug so as to endanger the public morals, health, safety, or welfare, or who is so far addicted to the use of narcotic drugs as to have lost the power of self-control with reference to his addiction.
(2) The term “administer” refers to the direct application of a controlled substance to the body of a patient or research subject by—
(A) a practitioner (or, in his presence, by his authorized agent), or
(B) the patient or research subject at the direction and in the presence of the practitioner,
whether such application be by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means.
(3) The term “agent” means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser; except that such term does not include a common or contract carrier, public warehouseman, or employee of the carrier or warehouseman, when acting in the usual and lawful course of the carrier’s or warehouseman’s business.
(4) The term “Drug Enforcement Administration” means the Drug Enforcement Administration in the Department of Justice.
(5) The term “control” means to add a drug or other substance, or immediate precursor, to a schedule under part B of this subchapter, whether by transfer from another schedule or otherwise.
(6) The term “controlled substance” means a drug or other substance, or immediate precursor, included in schedule I, II, III, IV, or V of part B of this subchapter. The term does not include distilled spirits, wine, malt beverages, or tobacco, as those terms are defined or used in subtitle E of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
(7) The term “counterfeit substance” means a controlled substance which, or the container or labelin
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**(a) Mode of transportation subject to coverage**
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), this section applies to the transportation of any migrant or seasonal agricultural worker.
(2) This section does not apply to the transportation of any migrant or seasonal agricultural worker on a tractor, combine, harvester, picker, or other similar machinery and equipment while such worker is actually engaged in the planting, cultivating, or harvesting of any agricultural commodity or the care of livestock or poultry.
**(b) Applicability of standards, licensing, and insurance requirements; promulgation of regulations for standards; criteria, etc., for regulations; amount of insurance required**
(1) When using, or causing to be used, any vehicle for providing transportation to which this section applies, each agricultural employer, agricultural association, and farm labor contractor shall—
(A) ensure that such vehicle conforms to the standards prescribed by the Secretary under paragraph (2) of this subsection and other applicable Federal and State safety standards,
(B) ensure that each driver has a valid and appropriate license, as provided by State law, to operate the vehicle, and
(C) have an insurance policy or a liability bond that is in effect which insures the agricultural employer, the agricultural association, or the farm labor contractor against liability for damage to persons or property arising from the ownership, operation, or the causing to be operated, of any vehicle used to transport any migrant or seasonal agricultural worker.
(2)
(A) For purposes of paragraph (1)(A), the Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to protect the health and safety of migrant and seasonal agricultural workers.
(B) To the extent consistent with
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TITLE 29—LABOR
§ 1855
(Pub. L. 97–470, title V, § 504, Jan. 14, 1983, 96
Stat. 2597; Pub. L. 102–392, title III, § 325(a), Oct.
6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1728; Pub. L. 104–49, §§ 1(a)(2),
2(a), 3, Nov. 15, 1995, 109 Stat. 432, 433.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1995—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104–49, § 1(a)(2), amended
subsec. (d) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (d)
read as follows:
‘‘(d)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
chapter, where a State workers’ compensation law is
applicable and coverage is provided for a migrant or
seasonal agricultural worker, the workers’ compensa-
tion benefits shall be the exclusive remedy for loss of
such worker under this chapter in the case of bodily in-
jury or death.
‘‘(2) The exclusive remedy prescribed by paragraph (1)
precludes the recovery under subsection (c) of actual
damages for loss from an injury or death but does not
preclude recovery under subsection (c) for statutory
damages or an injunction.’’
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104–49, § 2(a), added subsec. (e).
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 104–49, § 3, added subsec. (f).
1992—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 102–392 added subsec. (d).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1995 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 104–49, § 1(b), Nov. 15, 1995, 109 Stat. 432, pro-
vided that: ‘‘The amendment made by subsection (a)(2)
[amending this section] shall apply to all cases in
which a final judgment has not been entered.’’
Pub. L. 104–49, § 2(b), Nov. 15, 1995, 109 Stat. 433, pro-
vided that: ‘‘The amendment made by subsection (a)
[amending this section] shall apply to all cases in
which a final judgment has not been entered.’’
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1992 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 102–392, title III, § 325(c), Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat.
1728, provided that the amendment of this section b
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