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title: "29 U.S.C. § 525"
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title_number: 29
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# 29 U.S.C. § 525 - Service of process

## Text

For the purposes of this chapter, service of summons, subpena, or other legal process of a court of the United States upon an officer or agent of a labor organization in his capacity as such shall constitute service upon the labor organization.

(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 605, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 540.)