Title 29 — LaborRelease 119-73
§483 Application of other laws; existing rights and remedies; exclusiveness of remedy for challenging election
Title 29 › Chapter CHAPTER 11— - LABOR-MANAGEMENT REPORTING AND DISCLOSURE PROCEDURE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— - ELECTIONS › § 483
Summary
Labor groups must hold officer elections only as their own constitution or bylaws require, unless this part of the law provides otherwise. Pre-election ways to enforce those rules stay the same. If an election has already been held, any challenge must use the procedure in this part of the law and no other.
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Title 29, §483
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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.
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Effective Date
Section applicable ninety days after Sept. 14, 1959, 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.
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29 U.S.C. § 483
Title 29 — Labor
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73