Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc.
§ 262b. Commitments for United States contributions to international organizations; limitations; consultation with Congressional committees
Statutory text
No representative of the United States Government in any international organization hereafter shall make any commitment requiring the appropriation of funds for a contribution by the United States in excess of 33⅓ per centum of the budget of any international organization for which the appropriation for the United States contribution is contained in this Act: Provided, That in exceptional circumstances necessitating a contribution by the United States in excess of 33⅓ per centum of the budget, a commitment requiring a United States appropriation of a larger proportion may be made after consultation by United States representatives in the organization or other appropriate officials of the Department of State with the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives: Provided, however, That this section shall not apply to the United States representatives to the Inter-American organizations, Caribbean Commission and the Joint Support program of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
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.
Oct. 22, 1951, ch. 533, title VI, § 602, 65 Stat. 599 · 65 Stat. 599
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 262b
Oct. 22, 1951, ch. 533, title VI, § 602, 65 Stat. 599
Source evidence
Code source credit
Oct. 22, 1951, ch. 533, title VI, § 602, 65 Stat. 599
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This Act, referred to in text, is act Oct. 22, 1951, ch. 533, title VI, 65 Stat. 599, popularly known as the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Appropriation Act of 1952. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Codification
Section is comprised of first paragraph of section 602 of act . Second par. of such section 602 contained a fiscal year provision.
Amendments
1953—Act , inserted proviso that this section is not to apply to the United States representatives to the Caribbean Commission and the Joint Support program of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Similar Provisions
Provisions similar to this section were contained in act July 10, 1952, ch. 651, title I, 66 Stat. 550.
Credits
1951–1953 · 2 acts
- 1951Oct. 22, 1951, ch. 533, title VI, § 602, 65 Stat. 599
- 1953Aug. 5, 1953, ch. 328, title I, 67 Stat. 368.
Show as published
(Oct. 22, 1951, ch. 533, title VI, § 602, 65 Stat. 599; Aug. 5, 1953, ch. 328, title I, 67 Stat. 368.)