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29 U.S.C. § 1452

Penalty for failure to provide notice

United States · Title 29 — LABOR · Status: effective

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29 U.S.C. § 1452, Penalty for failure to provide notice, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/466339
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Any person who fails, without reasonable cause, to provide a notice required under this subtitle or any implementing regulations shall be liable to the corporation in an amount up to $100 for each day for which such failure continues. The corporation may bring a civil action against any such person in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or in any district court of the United States within the jurisdiction of which the plan assets are located, the plan is administered, or a defendant resides or does business, and process may be served in any district where a defendant resides, does business, or may be found.

Legislative history

The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.

  • Enacted byPub. L. 93-406(H.R. 2)1974-09-02
    Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
    House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
  • Amended byPub. L. 96-364(H.R. 3904)1980-09-26
    An act to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to improve retirement income security under private multiemployer pension plans by strengthening the funding requirements for those plans, to authorize plan preservation measures for financially troubled multiemployer pension plans, and to revise the manner in which the pension plan termination insurance provisions apply to multiemployer plans, and for other purposes.
    House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally