Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 34 — The Peace Corps
§ 2521. Foreign language proficiency
Statutory text
No person shall be assigned to duty as a volunteer under this chapter in any foreign country or area unless at the time of such assignment he possesses such reasonable proficiency as his assignment requires in speaking the language of the country or area to which he is assigned.
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.
Pub. L. 87–293 title I § 24 · 75 Stat. 612
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 2521
(Pub. L. 87–293, title I, § 24, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 624.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 87–293, title I, § 24, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 624.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 24. foreign language proficiency No person shall be assigned to duty as a volunteer under this Act in any foreign country or area unless at the time of such assignment he possesses such reasonable proficiency as his assignment requires in speaking the language of the country or area to which he is assigned.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 87–293, , 75 Stat. 612, known as the Peace Corps Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2501 of this title and Tables.