Title 29
SECTION 403.2
403.2 Annual financial report.
§ 403.2 Annual financial report.(a) Every labor organization shall, as prescribed by the regulations in this part, file with the Office of Labor-Management Standards within 90 days after the end of each of its fiscal years, a financial report signed by its president and treasurer, or corresponding principal officers.
(b) Every labor organization shall include in its annual financial report filed as provided in paragraph (a) of this section, in such detail as may be necessary accurately to disclose its financial condition and operations for its preceding fiscal year and in such categories as prescribed by the Secretary under the provisions of this part, the information required by section 201(b) of the Act and found by the Secretary under section 208 thereof to be necessary in such report.
(c) If, on the date for filing the annual financial report of a labor organization required under section 201(b) of the Act and this section, such labor organization is in trusteeship, the labor organization which has assumed trusteeship over such labor organization shall file such report as provided in § 408.5 of this chapter.
(d)(1) Every labor organization with annual receipts of $250,000 or more shall file a report on Form T-1 for each trust that meets the following conditions:
(i) The trust is of the type defined by section 3(l) of the LMRDA, i.e., the trust was created or established by the labor organization or the labor organization appoints or selects a member of the trust's governing board; and the trust has as a primary purpose to provide benefits to the members of the labor organization or their beneficiaries (29 U.S.C. 402(1)); and the labor organization, alone or with other labor organizations, either:
(A) Appoints or selects a majority of the members of the trust's governing board; or
(B) Makes contributions to the trust that exceed 50 percent of the trust's receipts during the trust's fiscal year; and
(ii) None of the exemptions discussed in paragraph (d)(3) of this section apply.
(iii) For purposes of paragraph (d)(1)(i)(B) of this section, contributions by an employer pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement with a labor organization shall be considered contributions by the labor organization.
(2) A separate report shall be filed on Form T-1 for each such trust within 90 days after the end of the labor organization's fiscal year in the detail required by the instructions accompanying the form and constituting a part thereof, and shall be signed by the president and treasurer, or corresponding principal officers, of the labor organization. Only the parent labor organization (i.e., the national/international or intermediate labor organization) must file the Form T-1 report for covered trusts in which both the parent labor organization and its affiliates satisfy the financial or managerial domination test set forth in paragraph (d)(1)(i) of this section. The affiliates must continue to identify the trust in their Form LM-2 Labor Organization Annual Report, and include a statement that the parent labor organization will file a Form T-1 report for the trust.
(3) No Form T-1 should be filed for any trust (or a plan of which the trust is part) that:
(i) Meets the statutory definition of a labor organization and already files a Form LM-2, Form LM-3, Form LM-4, or simplified LM report;
(ii) The LMRDA exempts from reporting;
(iii) Meets the definition of a subsidiary organization pursuant to Part X of the instructions for the Form LM-2 Labor Organization Annual Report;
(iv) Established as a Political Action Committee (PAC) if timely, complete and publicly available reports on the PAC are filed with a Federal or state agency;
(v) Established as a political organization under 26 U.S.C. 527 if timely, complete, and publicly available reports are filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS);
(vi) Constitutes a federal employee health benefit plan subject to the provisions of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act (FEHBA);
(vii) Constitutes any for-profit commercial bank established or operating pursuant to the Bank Holding Act of 1956, 12 U.S.C. 184;
(viii) Is an employee benefit plan within the meaning of 29 U.S.C. 1002(3) that is subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act pursuant to 29 U.S.C. 1003, and that files an annual report in accordance with 29 U.S.C. 1021 and 1024, and applicable rules and requirements, for a plan year ending during the reporting period of the labor organization; or
(ix) Constitutes a credit union subject to the Federal Credit Union Act, 12 U.S.C. 1751.
(4) A labor organization may complete only Items 1 through 15 and Items 26 through 27 (Signatures) of Form T-1 if an annual audit prepared according to standards set forth in the Form T-1 instructions was performed and a copy of that audit is filed with the Form T-1.
(5) If such labor organization is in trusteeship on the date for filing the annual financial report, the labor organization that has assumed trusteeship over such subordinate labor organization shall file such report as provided in § 408.5 of this chapter.
[28 FR 14383, Dec. 27, 1963, as amended at 50 FR 31309, Aug. 1, 1985; 68 FR 58447, Oct. 9, 2003; 71 FR 57737, Sept. 29, 2006; 73 FR 57449, Oct. 2, 2008; 75 FR 74959, Dec. 1, 2010; 78 FR 8024, Feb. 5, 2013; 85 FR 13441, Mar. 6, 2020]