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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 7 — Labor-Management Relations

§ 162. Offenses and penalties

Statutory text

Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with any member of the Board or any of its agents or agencies in the performance of duties pursuant to this subchapter shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.

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 § 12 · 49 Stat. 449

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 162

    July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 12, 49 Stat. 456

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 12, 49 Stat. 456

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 12. Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with any member of the Board or any of its agents or agencies in the performance of duties pursuant to this Act shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.

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, § 12, 49 Stat. 456
  2. 1947June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title I, § 101, 61 Stat. 151.
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(July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 12, 49 Stat. 456; June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title I, § 101, 61 Stat. 151.)

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