Title 29 — Labor
Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure
§ 530. Deprivation of rights by violence; penalty
Statutory text
It shall be unlawful for any person through the use of force or violence, or threat of the use of force or violence, to restrain, coerce, or intimidate, or attempt to restrain, coerce, or intimidate any member of a labor organization for the purpose of interfering with or preventing the exercise of any right to which he is entitled under the provisions of this chapter. Any person who willfully violates this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 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 VI § 610 · 73 Stat. 519
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 530
(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 610, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 541.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 610, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 541.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 610. deprivation of rights under act by violence It shall be unlawful for any person through the use of force or violence, or threat of the use of force or violence, to restrain, coerce, or intimidate, or attempt to restrain, coerce, or intimidate any member of a labor organization for the purpose of interfering with or preventing the exercise of any right to which he is entitled under the provisions of this Act. Any person who willfully violates this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
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