---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 934"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "934"
heading: "Compensation notice"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/934"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation"
---

# §934. Compensation notice


Every [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) who has secured [compensation](/usc/33/902.md?p=12) under the provisions of this chapter shall keep posted in a conspicuous place or places in and about his place or places of business typewritten or printed notices, in accordance with a form prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/33/902.md?p=6), stating that such [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) has secured the payment of [compensation](/usc/33/902.md?p=12) in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Such notices shall contain the name and address of the [carrier](/usc/33/902.md?p=5), if any, with whom the [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) has secured payment of [compensation](/usc/33/902.md?p=12) and the date of the expiration of the policy.


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 34, 44 Stat. 1441; Pub. L. 98–426, § 27(a)(2), Sept. 28, 1984, 98 Stat. 1654.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–426 substituted “Secretary” for “commission”. See Transfer of Functions note set out under section 902 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 98–426 effective Sept. 28, 1984, see section 28(e)(1) of Pub. L. 98–426, set out as a note under section 901 of this title.