Title 29 — Labor
Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure
§ 483. Application of other laws; existing rights and remedies; exclusiveness of remedy for challenging election
Statutory text
No labor organization shall be required by law to conduct elections of officers with greater frequency or in a different form or manner than is required by its own constitution or bylaws, except as otherwise provided by this subchapter. Existing rights and remedies to enforce the constitution and bylaws of a labor organization with respect to elections prior to the conduct thereof shall not be affected by the provisions of this subchapter. The remedy provided by this subchapter for challenging an election already conducted shall be exclusive.
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 IV § 403 · 73 Stat. 519
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 483
(Pub. L. 86–257, title IV, § 403, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 534.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 86–257, title IV, § 403, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 534.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 403. application of other laws No labor organization shall be required by law to conduct elections of officers with greater frequency or in a different form or manner than is required by its own constitution or bylaws, except as otherwise provided by this title. Existing rights and remedies to enforce the constitution and bylaws of a labor organization with respect to elections prior to the conduct thereof shall not be affected by the provisions or this title. The remedy provided by this title for challenging an election already conducted shall be exclusive.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section applicable ninety days after , in the case of certain labor organizations, see section 404 of Pub. L. 86–257, set out as a note under section 481 of this title.