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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. · Sec. 15

Sec. 15. prohibited acts

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## Sec. 15 prohibited acts ###
(a)After the expiration of one hundred and twenty days from the date of enactment of this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person— ####
(1)to transport, offer for transportation, ship, deliver, or sell in commerce, or to ship, deliver, or sell with knowledge that shipment or delivery or sale thereof in commerce is intended, any goods in the production of which any employee was employed in violation of section 6 or section 7, or in violation of any regulation or order of the Secretary of Labor issued under section 14; except that no provision of this Act shall impose any liability upon any common carrier for the transportation in commerce in the regular course of its business of any goods not produced by such common carrier, and no provision of this Act shall excuse any common carrier from its obligation to accept any goods for transportation; and except that any such transportation, offer, shipment, delivery, or sale of such goods by a purchaser who acquired them in good faith in reliance on written assurance from the producer that the goods were produced in compliance with the requirements of the Act, and who acquired such goods for value without notice of any such violation, shall not be deemed unlawful; ####
(2)to violate any of the provisions of section 6 or section 7, or any of the provisions of any regulation or order of the Secretary issued under section 14; ####
(3)to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to this Act, or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding, or has served or is about to serve on an industry committee; ####
(4)to violate any of the provisions of section 12; ####
(5)to violate any of the provisions of section 11(c) or any regulation or order made or continued in effect under the provisions of section 11(d), or to make any statement, report, or record filed or kept pursuant to the provisions of such section or of any regulation or order thereunder, knowing such statement, report, or record to be false in a material respect; and ####
(6)to violate any of the provisions of section 18D. ###
(b)For the purposes of subsection (a)(1) proof that any employee was employed in any place of employment where goods shipped or sold in commerce were produced, within ninety days prior to the removal of the goods from such place of employment, shall be prima facie evidence that such employee was engaged in the production of such goods. **[**[29 U.S.C. 215](/us/usc/t29/s215)**]** Enacted June 25, 1938, ch. 676, sec. 15, 52 Stat. 1068; amended October 26, 1949, ch. 736, sec. 13, 63 Stat. 919.
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