{"identifier":"/us/usc/t29/s652","title":29,"num":"\u00a7\u202f652.","heading":"Definitions","text":"\u00a7\u202f652.\nDefinitions\nFor the purposes of this chapter\u2014\n(1) The term \u201cSecretary\u201d mean\n1\n1 So in original. Probably should be \u201cmeans\u201d.\n(2) The term \u201cCommission\u201d means the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission established under this chapter.\n(3) The term \u201ccommerce\u201d means trade, traffic, commerce, transportation, or communication among the several States, or between a State and any place outside thereof, or within the District of Columbia, or a possession of the United States (other than the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands), or between points in the same State but through a point outside thereof.\n(4) The term \u201cperson\u201d means one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, business trusts, legal representatives, or any organized group of persons.\n(5) The term \u201cemployer\u201d means a person engaged in a business affecting commerce who has employees, but does not include the United States (not including the United States Postal Service) or any State or political subdivision of a State.\n(6) The term \u201cemployee\u201d means an employee of an employer who is employed in a business of his employer which affects commerce.\n(7) The term \u201cState\u201d includes a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.\n(8) The term \u201coccupational safety and health standard\u201d means a standard which requires conditions, or the adoption or use of one or more practices, means, methods, operations, or processes, reasonably necessary or appropriate to provide safe or healthful employment and places of employment.\n(9) The term \u201cnational consensus standard\u201d means any occupational safety and health standard or modification thereof which (1),\n2\n2 So in original. The comma probably should not appear.\n(10) The term \u201cestablished Federal standard\u201d means any operative occupational safety and health standard established by any agency of the United States and presently in effect, or contained in any Act of Congress in force on\nDecember 29, 1970\n(11) The term \u201cCommittee\u201d means the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health established under this chapter.\n(12) The term \u201cDirector\u201d means the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.\n(13) The term \u201cInstitute\u201d means the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health established under this chapter.\n(14) The term \u201cWorkmen\u2019s Compensation Commission\u201d means the National Commission on State Workmen\u2019s Compensation Laws established under this chapter.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t29/s652.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t29/s652","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f652."},{"t":"heading","text":"Definitions","tail":"\n"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"For the purposes of this chapter\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t29/s652/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" The term \u201cSecretary\u201d mean\u202f","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"1"},{"t":"num","text":"1","tail":"\u202fSo in original. 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The comma probably should not appear.","tail":" has been adopted and promulgated by a nationally recognized standards-producing organization under procedures whereby it can be determined by the Secretary that persons interested and affected by the scope or provisions of the standard have reached substantial agreement on its adoption, (2) was formulated in a manner which afforded an opportunity for diverse views to be considered and (3) has been designated as such a standard by the Secretary, after consultation with other appropriate Federal agencies."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t29/s652/10","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(10)"},{"t":"content","text":" The term \u201cestablished Federal standard\u201d means any operative occupational safety and health standard established by any agency of the United States and presently in effect, or contained in any Act of Congress in force on ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"December 29, 1970","tail":"."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t29/s652/11","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(11)"},{"t":"content","text":" The term \u201cCommittee\u201d means the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health established under this chapter.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t29/s652/12","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(12)"},{"t":"content","text":" The term \u201cDirector\u201d means the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t29/s652/13","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(13)"},{"t":"content","text":" The term \u201cInstitute\u201d means the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health established under this chapter.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t29/s652/14","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(14)"},{"t":"content","text":" The term \u201cWorkmen\u2019s Compensation Commission\u201d means the National Commission on State Workmen\u2019s Compensation Laws established under this chapter.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}