---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 524"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "524"
heading: "Effect on State laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/524"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure"
  - "Subchapter VII — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §524. Effect on State laws


Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair or diminish the authority of any [State](/usc/29/402.md?p=b) to enact and enforce general criminal laws with respect to robbery, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, grand larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narcotics laws, murder, rape, assault with intent to kill, or assault which inflicts grievous bodily injury, or conspiracy to commit any of such crimes.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 604, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 540.)