Title 29 — Labor
Part 6 · Chapter 18 — Employee Retirement Income Security Program
§ 1453. Election of plan status
Statutory text
Authority, time, and criteria
Within one year after , a multiemployer plan may irrevocably elect, pursuant to procedures established by the corporation, that the plan shall not be treated as a multiemployer plan for any purpose under this chapter or the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, if for each of the last 3 plan years ending prior to the effective date of the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980—
the plan was not a multiemployer plan because the plan was not a plan described in section 1002(37)(A)(iii) of this title and section 414(f)(1)(C) of title 26 (as such provisions were in effect on the day before ); and
the plan had been identified as a plan that was not a multiemployer plan in substantially all its filings with the corporation, the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of the Treasury.
Requirements
An election described in subsection (a) shall be effective only if—
the plan is amended to provide that it shall not be treated as a multiemployer plan for all purposes under this chapter and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, and
written notice of the amendment is provided to the corporation within 60 days after the amendment is adopted.
Effective date
An election described in subsection (a) shall be treated as being effective as of .
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
Pub. L. 93–406 title IV § 4303 · 88 Stat. 829
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 1453
(Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4303, as added Pub. L. 96–364, title I, § 108(f), Sept. 26, 1980, 94 Stat. 1270.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4303, as added Pub. L. 96–364, title I, § 108(f), Sept. 26, 1980, 94 Stat. 1270.)
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b)(1), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–406, known as the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Titles I, III, and IV of such Act are classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1001 of this title and Tables.
The Internal Revenue Code of 1954, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b)(1), was redesignated the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 by Pub. L. 99–514, § 2, , 100 Stat. 2095, and is classified to Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.
For the effective date of the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980, referred to in subsec. (a), see section 1461(e) of this title.
Credits
(Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4303, as added Pub. L. 96–364, title I, § 108(f), , 94 Stat. 1270.)