29 U.S.C. § 634
Section 634 · Authorization of appropriations
This is § 17 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
Amended 3 times on record
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Vazquez v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. (1975)
Most recently applied in Brannigan v. Board of Education of Levittown Union Free School District (May 2005)
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.
There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this chapter.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
1978—Pub. L. 95–256 struck out “, not in excess of $5,000,000 for any fiscal year,” after “sums”.
1974—Pub. L. 93–259, §28(a)(5), increased appropriations authorization to $5,000,000 from $3,000,000.
Effective Date of 1974 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 93–259 effective May 1, 1974, see section 29(a) of Pub. L. 93–259, set out as a note under section 202 of this title.
Transfer of Functions
Functions relating to age discrimination administration and enforcement vested by this section in Secretary of Labor or Civil Service Commission transferred to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1978, §2, 43 F.R. 19807, 92 Stat. 3781, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, effective Jan. 1, 1979, as provided by section 1–101 of Ex. Ord. No. 12106, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1053.