29 C.F.R. Part 404

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Form LM-30 Labor Organization Officer and Employee Report

29 C.F.R. Part 404

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Title 29: Labor


.1.1.1.1PART 404 29 CFR part 404 - LABOR ORGANIZATION OFFICER AND EMPLOYEE REPORTS (2007

Section Contents
§ 404.1   Definitions
§ 404.2   Annual report.
§ 404.3   Form of annual report.
§ 404.4   [Reserved]
§ 404.5   Attorney-client communications exempted.
§ 404.6   Personal responsibility of signatories of reports.
§ 404.7   Maintenance and retention of records.
§ 404.8   Publication of reports required by this part.
§ 404.9   OMB control number.

Authority:  Secs. 202, 207, 208, 73 Stat. 525, 529 (29 U.S.C. 432, 437, 438); Secretary's Order No. 4–2001, 66 FR 29656, (May 31, 2001).

Source:  28 FR 14384, Dec. 27, 1963, unless otherwise noted.

§ 404.1 Definitions

As used in this part the term:

(a) Benefit with monetary value means anything of value, tangible or intangible, including any interest in personal or real property, gift, insurance, retirement, pension, license, copyright, forbearance, bequest or other form of inheritance, office, options, agreement for employment or property, or property of any kind. For reporting purposes, the following are excepted: pension, health, or other benefit payments from a trust that are provided pursuant to a written specific agreement covering such payments.


(b) Dealing means to engage in a transaction (bargain, sell, purchase, agree, contract) or to in any way traffic or trade, including solicitation of business.


(c) Employer means any employer or any group or association of employers engaged in an industry affecting commerce (1) which is, with respect to employees engaged in an industry affecting commerce, an employer within the meaning of any law of the United States relating to the employment of any employees or (2) which may deal with any labor organization concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work, and includes any person acting directly or indirectly as an employer or as an agent of an employer in relation to an employee but does not include the United States or any corporation wholly owned by the Government of the United States or any State or political subdivision thereof.


(d)(1) Fiscal year means the calendar year or other period of 12 consecutive calendar months, on the basis of which financial accounts of the labor organization officer or employee are kept. Where a labor organization officer or employee designates a new fiscal year period prior to the expiration of a previously established fiscal year period, the resultant period of less than 12 consecutive calendar months, and thereafter the newly established fiscal year, shall in that order constitute the fiscal year for purposes of the reports required to be filed by section 202(a) of the Act and the regulations in this part.


(2) A labor organization officer or employee who is subject to section 202(a) of the Act for only a portion of his fiscal year because the labor organization officer or employee first becomes subject to the Act during such fiscal year, may consider such portion as the entire fiscal year in making this report under this part.


(e) Income means all income from whatever source derived, including, but not limited to, compensation for services, fees, commissions, wages, salaries, interest, rents, royalties, copyrights, licenses, dividends, annuities, honorarium, income and interest from insurance and endowment contracts, capital gains, discharge of indebtedness, share of partnership income, bequests or other forms of inheritance, and gifts, prizes or awards.


(f) Labor organization means the local, intermediate, or national or international labor organization that employed the filer of the Form LM-30, or in which the filer held office, during the reporting period, and, in the case of a national or international union officer or an intermediate union officer, any subordinate labor organization of the officer's labor organization.


(g) Labor organization employee means any individual (other than an individual performing exclusively custodial or clerical services) employed by a labor organization within the meaning of any law of the United States relating to the employment of employees.


(h) Labor organization officer means any constitutional officer, any person authorized to perform the functions of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, or other executive functions of a labor organization, and any member of its executive board or similar governing body. An officer is:


(1) A person identified as an officer by the constitution and bylaws of the labor organization;


(2) Any person authorized to perform the functions of president, vice president, secretary, or treasurer;


(3) Any person who in fact has executive or policy-making authority or responsibility; and


(4) A member of a group identified as an executive board or a body which is vested with functions normally performed by an executive board.


(i) Minor child means a son, daughter, stepson, or stepdaughter under 21 years of age.


(j) Trust in which a labor organization is interested means a trust or other fund or organization:


(1) Which was created or established by a labor organization, or one or more of the trustees or one or more members of the governing body of which is selected or appointed by a labor organization, and


(2) A primary purpose of which is to provide benefits for the members of such labor organization or their beneficiaries.


[28 FR 14384, Dec. 27, 1963, as amended at 50 FR 31310, Aug. 1, 1985; 72 FR 36158, July 2, 2007]


§ 404.2 Annual Report 


Every labor organization officer and employee who in any fiscal year has been involved in transactions of the type described in section 202(a) of the Act, or who holds or has held any interest in an employer or a business of the type referred to therein, or who has received any payments of the type referred to in that section, or who holds or has held an interest in or derived income or economic benefit with monetary value from a business any part of which consists of dealing with a trust in which his labor organization is interested, or whose spouse or minor child has been involved in such transactions, holds or has held any such interests, or has received such payments, is required to file with the Office of Labor-Management Standards, within 90 days after the end of his fiscal year, a signed report containing the detailed information required therein by section 202(a) of the Act, and found by the Assistant Secretary under section 208 thereof to be necessary in such report.


[28 FR 14384, Dec. 27, 1963, as amended at 50 FR 31309, Aug. 1, 1985]


§ 404.3 Form of annual report.


On and after the effective date of this section, every labor organization officer and employee required to file an annual report under § 404.2 shall file such report on United States Department of Labor Form LM-30 entitled “Labor Organization Officer and Employee Report,” together with a true copy thereof, in the detail required by the instructions accompanying such form and constituting a part thereof.


§ 404.4 [Reserved]


§ 404.5 Attorney-client communications exempted.


Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to require an attorney who is a member in good standing of the bar of any State, to include in any report required to be filed pursuant to the provisions of section 202(a) of the Act and of this part any information which was lawfully communicated to such attorney by any of his clients in the course of a legitimate attorney-client relationship.


§ 404.6 Personal responsibility of signatories of reports.


Every labor organization officer or employee required to file a report under section 202(a) of the Act and under this part shall be personally responsible for the filing of such report and for any statement contained therein which he knows to be false.


§ 404.7 Maintenance and retention of records.


Every person required to file any report under this part shall maintain records on the matters required to be reported which will provide in sufficient detail the necessary basic information and data from which the documents filed with the Office of Labor-Management Standards may be verified, explained or clarified, and checked for accuracy and completeness, and shall include vouchers, worksheets, receipts, financial and investment statements, contracts, correspondence, and applicable resolutions, in their original electronic and paper formats, and any electronic programs by which they are maintained, available for examination for a period of not less than five years after the filing of the documents based on the information which they contain.


[72 FR 36159, July 2, 2007]


§ 404.8 Publication of reports required by this part.


Inspection and examination of any report or other document filed as required by this part, and the furnishing by the Office of Labor-Management Standards of copies thereof to any person requesting them, shall be governed by Part 70 of this title.


[35 FR 2990, Feb. 13, 1970]


§ 404.9 OMB control number.


The collecting of information requirements in this part have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget and assigned OMB control number 1215-0188.


[59 FR 15116, March 31, 1994; 63 FR 33779, June 19, 1998]






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