---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 1844"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "1844"
heading: "Compliance with written agreements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/1844"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection"
  - "Subchapter IV — Further Protections for Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers"
---

# §1844. Compliance with written agreements

- (a) **Applicability to contracting activity or worker protection—** No [farm labor contractor](/usc/29/1802.md?p=7) shall violate, without justification, the terms of any written agreements made with an [agricultural employer](/usc/29/1802.md?p=2) or an [agricultural association](/usc/29/1802.md?p=1) pertaining to any contracting activity or worker protection under this chapter.
- (b) **Statutory liability—** Written agreements under this section do not relieve a [person](/usc/29/1802.md?p=9) of any responsibility that such [person](/usc/29/1802.md?p=9) would otherwise have under this chapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–470, title IV, § 404, Jan. 14, 1983, 96 Stat. 2596.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 90 days from Jan. 14, 1983, see section 524 of Pub. L. 97–470, set out as a note under section 1801 of this title.