---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 785.8"
title: "29"
number: "785.8"
heading: "Effect of custom, contract, or agreement."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/785.8"
---

# §785.8. Effect of custom, contract, or agreement.


The principles are applicable, even though there may be a custom, contract, or agreement not to pay for the time so spent with special statutory exceptions discussed in §§ [785.9](/cfr/29/785.9.md) and [785.26](/cfr/29/785.26.md).


## Notes

### Amendments

[35 FR 15289, Oct. 1, 1970]

### Authority

Authority: 52 Stat. 1060; 29 U.S.C. 201-219; 29 U.S.C. 254. Pub. L. 104-188, 100 Stat. 1755.

### Source

Source: 26 FR 190, Jan. 11, 1961, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[35 FR 15289, Oct. 1, 1970]