<section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" style="-uslm-lc:I80" id="id50fe2afb-f67c-11e5-87ee-a95dc0577289" identifier="/us/usc/t5/s8478a"><num value="8478a">§ 8478a.</num><heading> Investigative authority</heading><content>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">Any authority available to the Secretary of Labor under section 504 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 is hereby made available to the Secretary of Labor, and any officer designated by the Secretary of Labor, to determine whether any person has violated, or is about to violate, any provision of section 8477 or 8478.</p>
</content><sourceCredit id="id50fe2afc-f67c-11e5-87ee-a95dc0577289">(Added <ref href="/us/pl/99/556/tI">Pub. L. 99–556, title I</ref>, § 110(a), <date date="1986-10-27">Oct. 27, 1986</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/100/3132">100 Stat. 3132</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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<heading class="centered smallCaps">References in Text</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Section 504 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, referred to in text, is classified to <ref href="/us/usc/t29/s1134">section 1134 of Title 29</ref>, Labor.</p>
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