Sec. 12.
This state hereby accepts the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser act.
The state employment service is established in the employment security commission which shall be so administered as to cooperate with any federal agency charged with the administration of the Wagner-Peyser act and to conform with the requirements of the Wagner-Peyser act. Free public employment offices which shall be designated as the state employment service offices shall be established and maintained by the commission in such number and such places as may be necessary for the proper administration of this act and for the purpose of performing such functions as are within the purview of the Wagner-Peyser act. The commission is designated and constituted the agency of this state for the purpose of the Wagner-Peyser act.
The commission is authorized and empowered, subject to the approval of any federal agency charged with the administration of the Wagner-Peyser act, to establish and operate in each employment service office established in the state, a department or division, the sole function and purpose of which shall be to secure and make available, insofar as is possible, suitable employment for persons over 45 years of age.
All moneys made available by, or received by this state under said act of congress, shall be paid into the administration fund created by this act, and said moneys are appropriated and made available to the state employment service to be expended only for the uses and purposes for which same are received, as provided by this act and by said Wagner-Peyser act.
For the purpose of establishing and maintaining free public employment offices, the commission is authorized to enter into agreements with any political subdivision of this state, or with any private, nonprofit organization, and as a part of any such agreement the commission may accept moneys, services, or quarters as a contribution to the administration fund.
“Employment office” means a free public employment office or branch thereof which is operated by this state or another state as a part of a state controlled system of public employment offices, or by a federal agency which is charged with the administration of an unemployment compensation program or of free public employment offices.
“Wagner-Peyser act” means the act passed by the congress of the United States of America, entitled “An act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the states in the promotion of said system, and for other purposes,” approved June 6, 1933, being 48 statutes 113; United States code, title 29, section 49(c), as amended, known as the Wagner-Peyser act.
History: 1936, Ex. Sess., Act 1, Imd. Eff. Dec. 24, 1936 ;-- Am. 1939, Act 324, Imd. Eff. June 22, 1939 ;-- Am. 1941, Act 364, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1941 ;-- CL 1948, 421.12 ;-- Am. 1951, Act 251, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1951 ;-- Am. 1955, Act 178, Eff. Oct. 14, 1955 ;-- Am. 1963, Act 124, Eff. Sept. 6, 1963 ;-- Am. 1971, Act 231, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 1972
Last modified: October 10, 2016