---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 1145"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "1145"
heading: "Delinquent contributions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/1145"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Employee Retirement Income Security Program"
  - "Subchapter I — Protection of Employee Benefit Rights"
  - "Subtitle B — Regulatory Provisions"
  - "Part 5 — administration and enforcement"
---

# §1145. Delinquent contributions


Every employer who is obligated to make contributions to a [multiemployer plan](/usc/29/1301.md?p=a-3) under the terms of the plan or under the terms of a collectively bargained agreement shall, to the extent not inconsistent with law, make such contributions in accordance with the terms and conditions of such plan or such agreement.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–406, title I, § 515, as added Pub. L. 96–364, title III, § 306(a), Sept. 26, 1980, 94 Stat. 1295.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Effective Date

Section effective Sept. 26, 1980, except as specifically provided, see section 1461(e) of this title.