§ 2672a. Alternate United States Commissioners for international fisheries commissions

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. 1972

   Pub. L. 92–471 title II § 201 · 86 Stat. 784

   Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 2672a

   Pub. L. 92–471, title II, § 201, Oct. 9, 1972, 86 Stat. 787

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 92–471, title II, § 201, Oct. 9, 1972, 86 Stat. 787

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 201. In order to insure appropriate representation at meetings of international fisheries commissions, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce or of the interior as appropriate may designate from time to time Alternate United States Commissioners to the North Pacific Fur Seal Commission, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, the International Pacific Halibut Commission, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the I international Whaling Commission, the Commission for the Conservation of Shrimp in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, and any similar commission (other than the International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries and the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission) established pursuant to a convention between the United States and other governments. Alternate United States Commissioners may exercise, at any meeting of the respective Commission or of the United States Section thereof, all powers and duties of a United States Commissioner in the absence of a duly designated Commissioner for whatever reason. The number of such Alternate United States Commissioners that may be designated for any such meeting shall be limited to the number of authorized United States Commissioners that will not be present. In the event that there are Deputy United States Commissioners pursuant to the convention or statute, such Deputy United States Commissioners shall have precedence over any Alternate Commissioners so designated pursuant to this title.

2. 1986

   Pub. L. 99–659 title IV § 405(c) · 100 Stat. 3706

   Struck · 22 U.S.C. § 2672a

   Pub. L. 99–659 struck out “the Great Lakes Fishery Commission,” after “the International Pacific Halibut Commission,”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 99–659 struck out “the Great Lakes Fishery Commission,” after “the International Pacific Halibut Commission,”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (c) Conforming Amendment.— Section 201 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the North Pacific Fisheries Act of 1954, and for other purposes”, approved October 9, 1972 (22 U.S.C. 2672a) is amended by striking out “the Great Lakes Fishery Commission,”.

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