29 USC § 555 - Solicitor

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identifier: "/us/usc/t29/s555"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "29 USC § 555 - Solicitor"
title_number: 29
title_name: "LABOR"
section_number: "555"
section_name: "Solicitor"
chapter_number: 12
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF LABOR"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Mar. 18, 1904, ch. 716, § 1, 33 Stat. 135; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 7, 37 Stat. 738; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 7, June 10, 1933.)"
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# § 555. Solicitor

There shall be a solicitor for the Department of Labor.

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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 18, 1904, ch. 716, § 1, 33 Stat. 135; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 7, 37 Stat. 738; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 7, June 10, 1933.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

The words “of the Department of Justice” were omitted from text on authority of section 7 of Ex. Ord. No. 6166, which transferred the Solicitor for the Department of Labor from the Department of Justice to the Department of Labor.

Section was formerly classified to  prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by , , .

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Compensation of Solicitor

Compensation of solicitor, see , Government Organization and Employees.

## Executive Documents

### 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, §§ 1, 2, 15 F.R. 3174, , set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.