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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure

§ 462. Purposes for establishment of trusteeship

Statutory text

Trusteeships shall be established and administered by a labor organization over a subordinate body only in accordance with the constitution and bylaws of the organization which has assumed trusteeship over the subordinate body and for the purpose of correcting corruption or financial malpractice, assuring the performance of collective bargaining agreements or other duties of a bargaining representative, restoring democratic procedures, or otherwise carrying out the legitimate objects of such labor organization.

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. Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959

    Pub. L. 86–257 title III § 302 · 73 Stat. 519

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 462

    (Pub. L. 86–257, title III, § 302, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 531.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 86–257, title III, § 302, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 531.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 302. purposes for which a trusteeship may be established Trusteeships shall be established and administered by a labor organization over a subordinate body only in accordance with the constitution and bylaws of the organization which has assumed trusteeship over the subordinate body and for the purpose of correcting corruption or financial malpractice, assuring the performance of collective bargaining agreements or other duties of a bargaining representative, restoring democratic procedures, or otherwise carrying out the legitimate objects of such labor organization.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 86–257, title III, § 302, , 73 Stat. 531.)

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