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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure

§ 524. Effect on State laws

Statutory text

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair or diminish the authority of any State to enact and enforce general criminal laws with respect to robbery, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, grand larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narcotics laws, murder, rape, assault with intent to kill, or assault which inflicts grievous bodily injury, or conspiracy to commit any of such crimes.

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 VI § 604 · 73 Stat. 519

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 524

    (Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 604, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 540.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 604, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 540.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 604. effect on state laws Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impair or diminish the authority of any State to enact and enforce general criminal laws with respect to robbery, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, grand larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narcotics laws, murder, rape, assault with intent to kill, or assault which inflicts grievous bodily injury, or conspiracy to commit any of such crimes.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 604, , 73 Stat. 540.)

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