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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 21 — Settlement of International Claims

§ 1641o. Time limitation on completion of affairs of Commission

Statutory text

(a)

Claims against Russian nationals

The Commission shall complete its affairs in connection with the settlement of claims pursuant to section 1641d(a)(1) of this title not later than two years, and all other claims pursuant to this subchapter not later than four years, following , or following the date of enactment of legislation making appropriations to the Commission for the payment of administrative expenses incurred in carrying out its functions under this subchapter, whichever date is later.

(b)

Property taken in Bulgaria and Rumania; claims against Italy

The Commission shall complete its affairs in connection with the settlement of claims pursuant to paragraph (4) of section 1641b of this title and subsections (b) and (c) of section 1641c of this title not later than two years following , or following the enactment of legislation making appropriations to the Commission for payment of administrative expenses incurred in carrying out its functions under paragraph (4) of section 1641b of this title and subsections (b) and (c) of section 1641c of this title, whichever is later.

(c)

Property taken in Hungary

The Commission shall complete its affairs in connection with the settlement of claims pursuant to paragraph (5) of section 1641b of this title not later than two years following the deadline established under subsection (c) of section 1641e of this title.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 84–54 · 69 Stat. 80

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 1641o

    Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title III, § 316, as added Aug. 9, 1955, ch. 645, § 3, 69 Stat. 574

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title III, § 316, as added Aug. 9, 1955, ch. 645, § 3, 69 Stat. 574

  2. Pub. L. 90–421 § 1(14) · 82 Stat. 420

    1. Amended · 22 U.S.C. § 1641o

      Pub. L. 90–421 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)

    2. Added · 22 U.S.C. § 1641o

      Pub. L. 90–421 added subsec. (b)

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 90–421 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) Subsection (f) of section 4, title I, is hereby amended to read as follows: “(f) No remuneration on account of services rendered on behalf of any claimant in connection with any claim filed with the Commission under this title shall exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to any award certified under the provisions of this title, on account of such claim. Any agreement to the contrary shall be unlawful Penalty. and void. Whoever, in the United States or elsewhere, demands or receives, on account of services so rendered, any remuneration in excess of the maximum permitted by this section, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both.”

  3. Pub. L. 93–460 § 1(6) · 88 Stat. 1386

    Added · 22 U.S.C. § 1641o(c)

    Pub. L. 93–460 added subsec. (c)

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 93–460 added subsec. (c).

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) Section 302, title III, is amended by adding a new subsection (c) as follows: “(c) The Secretary of the Treasury shall cover into the Hungarian Claims Fund, such sums as may be paid to the United States by the Government 24 UST 522. of Hungary pursuant to the terms of the United States-Hungarian Claims Agreement of March 6, 1973.”.

3 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments1968–1974 · 2 rounds

1974

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 93–460 added subsec. (c).

1968

Pub. L. 90–421 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Credits

1950–1974 · 3 acts
  1. 1950Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title III, § 316, as added Aug. 9, 1955, ch. 645, § 3, 69 Stat. 574
  2. 1968amended Pub. L. 90–421, § 1(14), , 82 Stat. 423
  3. 1974Pub. L. 93–460, § 1(6), , 88 Stat. 1387.
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(Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title III, § 316, as added Aug. 9, 1955, ch. 645, § 3, 69 Stat. 574; amended Pub. L. 90–421, § 1(14), , 82 Stat. 423; Pub. L. 93–460, § 1(6), , 88 Stat. 1387.)

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