Title 29 — LaborRelease 119-73not60

§461 Reports

Title 29 › Chapter 11— LABOR-MANAGEMENT REPORTING AND DISCLOSURE PROCEDURE › Subchapter IV— TRUSTEESHIPS › § 461

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

When a labor group takes control of a smaller, subordinate group as a trustee, it must file a report with the Secretary within 30 days after September 14, 1959 or after taking control, and then every six months after that. The report must be signed by the parent group's president and treasurer (or their equivalents) and by the subordinate group's trustees. It must give the subordinate group's name and address, the date the trusteeship began, detailed reasons for starting or continuing the trusteeship, and how members take part in choosing delegates and officers. The first report must also include a full financial statement showing the subordinate group's condition when the trusteeship began. While the trusteeship continues, the parent must also file the annual financial report required by section 431(b), signed by the same officers and trustees. Rules in sections 431(c), 435, 436, 438, and 440 apply to these reports. Willfully failing to follow these rules, making a false material statement, or hiding or destroying related records can bring a fine up to $10,000, up to one year in jail, or both. Each person who signs a report is personally responsible for filing it and for any statement in it they know is false.

Full Legal Text

Title 29, §461

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(a)Every labor organization which has or assumes trusteeship over any subordinate labor organization shall file with the Secretary within thirty days after September 14, 1959 or the imposition of any such trusteeship, and semiannually thereafter, a report, signed by its president and treasurer or corresponding principal officers, as well as by the trustees of such subordinate labor organization, containing the following information: (1) the name and address of the subordinate organization; (2) the date of establishing the trusteeship; (3) a detailed statement of the reason or reasons for establishing or continuing the trusteeship; and (4) the nature and extent of participation by the membership of the subordinate organization in the selection of delegates to represent such organization in regular or special conventions or other policy-determining bodies and in the election of officers of the labor organization which has assumed trusteeship over such subordinate organization. The initial report shall also include a full and complete account of the financial condition of such subordinate organization as of the time trusteeship was assumed over it. During the continuance of a trusteeship the labor organization which has assumed trusteeship over a subordinate labor organization shall file on behalf of the subordinate labor organization the annual financial report required by section 431(b) of this title signed by the president and treasurer or corresponding principal officers of the labor organization which has assumed such trusteeship and the trustees of the subordinate labor organization.

(b)The provisions of section 431(c), 435, 436, 438, and 440 of this title shall be applicable to reports filed under this subchapter.

(c)Any person who willfully violates this section shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

(d)Any person who makes a false statement or representation of a material fact, knowing it to be false, or who knowingly fails to disclose a material fact, in any report required under the provisions of this section or willfully makes any false entry in or willfully withholds, conceals, or destroys any documents, books, records, reports, or statements upon which such report is based, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

(e)Each individual required to sign a report under this section shall be personally responsible for the filing of such report and for any statement contained therein which he knows to be false.

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29 U.S.C. § 461

Title 29 — Labor

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60