29 U.S.C. § 1137
Section 1137 · Administration
This is § 507 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 619 F. Supp. 1457 - International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen Local 1 of Rhode Island v. Menard & Co. Masonry Building Contractors (1985)
Most recently applied in Gouveia v. Pulley (In Re Pulley) (October 1989)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 5 (relating to administrative procedure), shall be applicable to this subchapter.
(b) Omitted.
(c) No employee of the Department of Labor or the Department of the Treasury shall administer or enforce this subchapter or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to any employee benefit plan under which he is a participant or beneficiary, any employee organization of which he is a member, or any employer organization in which he has an interest. This subsection does not apply to an employee benefit plan which covers only employees of the United States.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
References in Text
The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, referred to in subsec. (c), is classified generally to Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.
Codification
Subsec. (b) of this section amended section 5108 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Amendments
1989—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101–239 substituted “Internal Revenue Code of 1986” for “Internal Revenue Code of 1954”.
Effective Date of 1989 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 101–239 effective, except as otherwise provided, as if included in the provision of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99–514, to which such amendment relates, see section 7891(f) of Pub. L. 101–239, set out as a note under section 1002 of this title.
Regulations
Secretary authorized, effective Sept. 2, 1974, to promulgate regulations wherever provisions of this subchapter call for the promulgation of regulations, see section 1031 of this title.