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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc.

§ 272b. Loyalty check on United States personnel

Statutory text

No person shall serve as representative, delegate, or alternate from the United States until such person has been investigated as to loyalty and security by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.

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. 80–756 § 3 · 62 Stat. 1151

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 272b

    June 30, 1948, ch. 756, § 3, 62 Stat. 1152

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 30, 1948, ch. 756, § 3, 62 Stat. 1152

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. Loyalty and security investigations. No person shall serve as representative, delegate, or alternate from the United States until such person has been investigated as to loyalty and security by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1952—Act , substituted “Civil Service Commission” for “Federal Bureau of Investigation”.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

“Director of the Office of Personnel Management” substituted in text for “Civil Service Commission” pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1978, § 102, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783, set out under section 1101 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, which transferred functions vested by statute in Civil Service Commission to Director of Office of Personnel Management (except as otherwise specified), effective , as provided by section 1–102 of Ex. Ord. No. 12107, , 44 F.R. 1055, set out under section 1101 of Title 5.

Credits

1948–1979 · 3 acts
  1. 1948June 30, 1948, ch. 756, § 3, 62 Stat. 1152
  2. 1952Apr. 5, 1952, ch. 159, § 1, 66 Stat. 43
  3. 19791978 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 102, eff. , 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3784.
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(June 30, 1948, ch. 756, § 3, 62 Stat. 1152; Apr. 5, 1952, ch. 159, § 1, 66 Stat. 43; 1978 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 102, eff. , 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3784.)

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