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Communist organizations. P e t i t i o n by Attorney-General for determination of membership. 64 Stat. 998. 50 USC 792.

D i s s o l u t i o n of organizations.

Immunity for compelled t e s t i mony.

PUBLIC LAW 90-237-JAN. 2, 1968

[81 STAT.

his reasons for not having done so. If no hearings have been conducted, the Board shall report the reasons for not having done so. Similar reports shall be filed by the Attorney General and the Board on or before January 10, 1969, and each year thereafter, to cover the immediately preceding calendar year." SEC. 10. (a) The caption to section 13 of such Act is amended by striking out "REGISTRATION".

(b) Subsections (a) and (b) of section 13 of such Act are amended to read as follows: " (a) Whenever the Attorney General shall have reason to believe that any organization is a Communist-action organization or a Communist-front organization, or that any individual is a member of an organization which has been determined by final order of the Board to be a Communist-action organization, he shall file with the Board and serve upon such organization or individual, as the case may be, a petition for a determination that such organization is a Communistaction or Communist-front organization, or determining that such individual is a member of such Communist-action organization. Each such petition shall be verified under oath, and shall contain a statement of the facts upon which the Attorney General relies in support thereof. Two or more such individual members of a Communist-action organization or of any section, branch, fraction, cell, board, committee, commission, or unit thereof, may be joined as respondents in one petition for an order determining each of such individuals to be a member of such organization. A dissolution of any organization subsequent to the date of the filing of any petition for a determination that such organization is a Communist-action or Communist-front organization shall not moot or abate the proceeding;s, but the Board shall receive evidence and proceed to a determination of the issues: Provided, however, That if the Board shall find such organization to be a Communist-action or Communist-front organization as of the time of the filing of such petition and prior to its alleged dissolution, and shall find that a dissolution of the organization has in fact occurred, the Board shall enter an order determining such organization to be a Communist-action or Communist-front organization, as the case may be, and the Board shall include it as such in the appropriate records maintained pursuant to section 9 of this title, together with a notation of its dissolution. "(b) Any organization as to which there is in effect a final order of the Board determining it to be a Communist-action or Communistfront organization, and any individual as to whom there is in effect a final order of the Board determining such individual to be a member of a Communist-action organization may, not more often than once in each calendar year, file with the Board and serve upon the Attorney General a petition for a determination that such organization no longer is a Communist-action or Communist-front organization, or that such individual no longer is a member of a Communist-action organization, as the case may be. Each petition filed under this subsection shall be verified under oath, and shall contain a statement of the facts relied upon in support thereof. Upon the filing of any such petition, the Board shall serve upon each party to such proceeding a notice specifying the time and place for hearing upon such petition. No such hearing shall be conducted within twenty days after the service of such notice." (c) Subsection (c) of section 13 of such Act is amended by inserting immediately preceding the last sentence the following new sentence: "No person, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture, shall be excused from testifying or producing documentary evidence before

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