Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 6 — Foreign Diplomatic and Consular Officers
§ 254d. Dismissal on motion of action against individual entitled to immunity
Statutory text
Any action or proceeding brought against an individual who is entitled to immunity with respect to such action or proceeding under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, under section 254b or 254c of this title, or under any other laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities, shall be dismissed. Such immunity may be established upon motion or suggestion by or on behalf of the individual, or as otherwise permitted by law or applicable rules of procedure.
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.
Diplomatic Relations Act
Pub. L. 95–393 § 5 · 92 Stat. 808
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 254d
(Pub. L. 95–393, § 5, Sept. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 809.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 95–393, § 5, Sept. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 809.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. Any action or proceeding brought against an individual who 22 USC 254d. is entitled to immunity with respect to such action or proceeding under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, under section 3(b) or 4 of this Act, or under any other laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities, shall be dismissed. Such immunity may be established upon motion or suggestion by or on behalf of the individual, or as otherwise permitted by law or applicable rules of procedure.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective at end of ninety-day period beginning on , see section 9 of Pub. L. 95–393, set out as a note under section 254a of this title.