Title 29 — Labor
Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure
§ 463. Unlawful acts relating to labor organization under trusteeship
Statutory text
During any period when a subordinate body of a labor organization is in trusteeship, it shall be unlawful (1) to count the vote of delegates from such body in any convention or election of officers of the labor organization unless the delegates have been chosen by secret ballot in an election in which all the members in good standing of such subordinate body were eligible to participate, or (2) to transfer to such organization any current receipts or other funds of the subordinate body except the normal per capita tax and assessments payable by subordinate bodies not in trusteeship: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the distribution of the assets of a labor organization in accordance with its constitution and bylaws upon the bona fide dissolution thereof.
Any person who willfully violates this section shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned 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.
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959
Pub. L. 86–257 title III § 303 · 73 Stat. 519
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 463
(Pub. L. 86–257, title III, § 303, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 531.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 86–257, title III, § 303, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 531.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 303. unlawful acts relating to labor organization under trusteeship (a) During any period when a subordinate body of a labor organization is in trusteeship, it shall be unlawful (1) to count the vote of delegates from such body in any convention or election of officers of the labor organization unless the delegates have been chosen by secret ballot in an election in which all the members in good standing of such subordinate body were eligible to participate, or (2) to transfer to such organization any current receipts or other funds of the subordinate body except the normal per capita tax and assessments payable by subordinate bodies not in trusteeship: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the distribution of the assets of a labor organization in accordance with its constitution and bylaws upon the bona fide dissolution thereof. (b) Any person who willfully violates this section shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
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