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 636 75TH CONGRESS, 1sT SESSION-CH. 609--AUGUST 12, 1937 continuing State commission required by section 2 of this title. The appropriate administrative agencies of each State shall thereafter enforce and supervise the operation of the laws relating to this com- pact and the laws enacted to make the provisions of said compact effective. Compact open for SEC .7. Any State may at any time become a party to this com- ratification. pact by taking the action required by the preceding section of this title to ratify the same, subject to the consent of the Congress of the United States. Saving clause. SEC. 8. If any part of this compact or the application thereof to any person or circumstance should be held to be contrary to the constitution of any ratifying State or of the United States, all other separable p arts of said compact and the application of such parts to other persons or circumstances shall continue to be in full force and effect. Title III-Mini- TITLE III-MINIMUM WAGE mum wage. Unfair wage to a ,SECTION 1. No employer shall pay a woman or a minor under woman or minor. twenty-one years of n unfair ppressive wage. ag ency Authority of State SEC. 2. The State agency administering the minimum wage law enacted in conformity with this compact shall have authority to investigate the wages of women and minors ; to appoi nt wa ge bo ards, upon which employers, employees, and the public shall have equal representation, for the purpose of recommending minimum fair wage rates for women and minors ; and, after a public hearing, to ent er direct ory orders based on the deter minations of the wa ge boards, together with such administrative rulings as are appro- priate to make the determinations effective ; and may have further authority, without the agency of a wage board, to enter such orders in the case of occupations with less than a specified number of empl oyees. o Adm inistrat ion of SEC. 3. The State administrative agency and the wage boards ap pointed by such agency shall have authority to administer oaths and to require by subpena the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of records relative to the wages of women and minors. Furth er autho rit y SEC. 4. The State administrative agency shall have further author- and functions. ity to inspect to determine compliance with its orders ; to publish the names of employers violating a directory order ; and, after a directory order has been in effect for a specified period, to make such order mandatory after a public hearing thereon. Such mandatory order shall carry a penalty of fine, imprisonment, or both. Sa i d agency shall have authority to reconvene wage boards or to form new wage boards for the purpose of modifying wage orders. It shall have authority at any time on its own motion to modify ad- ministrative regulations after a public hearing thereon. Issuance of special SEC. 5. The State administrative agency shall have authority to licenses. issue special licenses to employees who, by reason of physical or mental condition are incapable of earning the minimum fair-wage rate established for the occupation in which they are employed. Said agency shall have authority to take assignment of wage claims at the request of women or minor employees paid less than the min- imum wage to which they are entitled under a mandatory order, and to bring legal action necessary to collect such claims. Such employees shall be authorized, under the statute, to recover by civil action the full amount to which they are entitled under a mandatory fair-wage order. Remoras to be k ept ; SEC. 6 . Employers sub j ect to the minimum-wagee laws enacted in inspection, etc. ~ g conformity herewith shall be required to keep specified records,