29 USC § 524a - Elimination of racketeering activities threat; State legislation governing collective bargaining representative

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section_name: "Elimination of racketeering activities threat; State legislation governing collective bargaining representative"
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# § 524a. Elimination of racketeering activities threat; State legislation governing collective bargaining representative

29 U.S.C. 151

Notwithstanding this or any other Act regulating labor-management relations, each State shall have the authority to enact and enforce, as part of a comprehensive statutory system to eliminate the threat of pervasive racketeering activity in an industry that is, or over time has been, affected by such activity, a provision of law that applies equally to employers, employees, and collective bargaining representatives, which provision of law governs service in any position in a local labor organization which acts or seeks to act in that State as a collective bargaining representative pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act [ et seq.], in the industry that is subject to that program.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 2201, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2192.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, probably means title II of , , , known as the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1984 Amendment note set out under , Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and Tables.

The National Labor Relations Act, referred to in text, is , , which is classified generally to subchapter II (§ 151 et seq.) of chapter 7 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see  and Tables.

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, which comprises this chapter.