TITLE 33 > CHAPTER 18 > § 915

 
                NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
         CHAPTER 18--LONGSHORE AND HARBOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION
 
Sec. 915. Invalid agreements

    (a) No agreement by an employee to pay any portion of premium paid 
by his employer to a carrier or to contribute to a benefit fund or 
department maintained by such employer for the purpose of providing 
compensation or medical services and supplies as required by this 
chapter shall be valid, and any employer who makes a deduction for such 
purpose from the pay of any employee entitled to the benefits of this 
chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 
shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.
    (b) No agreement by an employee to waive his right to compensation 
under this chapter shall be valid.

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, Sec. 15, 44 Stat. 1434.)