[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR452.32]

[Page 178]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
  CHAPTER IV--OFFICE OF LABOR-MANAGEMENT STANDARDS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 452_GENERAL STATEMENT CONCERNING THE ELECTION PROVISIONS OF THE 
LABOR-MANAGEMENT REPORTING AND DISCLOSURE ACT OF 1959--Table of Contents
 
        Subpart E_Candidacy for Office; Reasonable Qualifications
 
Sec. 452.32  Persons who may be candidates and hold office; secret 
ballot elections.


    Section 401(e) provides that in any election of officers required by 
the Act which is held by secret ballot, every member in good standing 
with the exceptions explained in sections following shall be eligible to 
be a candidate and to hold office. This provision is applicable not only 
to the election of officers in local labor organizations, but also to 
elections of officers in national or international and intermediate 
labor organizations where those elections are held by secret ballot 
referendum among the members, and to the election of delegates to 
conventions at which officers will be elected.