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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 7 — Labor-Management Relations

§ 155. National Labor Relations Board; principal office, conducting inquiries throughout country; participation in decisions or inquiries conducted by member

Statutory text

The principal office of the Board shall be in the District of Columbia, but it may meet and exercise any or all of its powers at any other place. The Board may, by one or more of its members or by such agents or agencies as it may designate, prosecute any inquiry necessary to its functions in any part of the United States. A member who participates in such an inquiry shall not be disqualified from subsequently participating in a decision of the Board in the same case.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 74–372 § 5 · 49 Stat. 449

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 155

    July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 5, 49 Stat. 452

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 5, 49 Stat. 452

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. The principal office of the Board shall be in the District of Columbia, but it may meet and exercise any or all of its powers Prosecution of inquiries. at any other place. The Board may, by one or more of its members or by such agents or agencies as it may designate, prosecute any inquiry necessary to its functions in any part of the United States. A member who participates in such an inquiry shall not be disqualified from subsequently participating in a decision of the Board in the same ease.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1947—Act , reenacted section without change.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1947 Amendment

For effective date of amendment by act , see section 104 of act , set out as a note under section 151 of this title.

Credits

1935–1947 · 2 acts
  1. 1935July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 5, 49 Stat. 452
  2. 1947June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title I, § 101, 61 Stat. 140.
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(July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 5, 49 Stat. 452; June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title I, § 101, 61 Stat. 140.)

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