§ 277b. Works or projects under treaty

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. 1924

   Pub. L. 74–153 § 3 · 49 Stat. 303

   Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 277b

   May 13, 1924, ch. 153, § 3, as added Aug. 19, 1935, ch. 561, 49 Stat. 660

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   May 13, 1924, ch. 153, § 3, as added Aug. 19, 1935, ch. 561, 49 Stat. 660

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. The bonds herein authorized shall be coupon in form and Bonds; form, maturity dates, etc. shall mature in not to exceed thirty years from the date thereof. Such bonds may bear such date or dates, may be in such denomination or denominations, may mature in such amounts and at such time or times, not exceeding thirty years from the date thereof, may be payable in such medium of payment and at such place or places, may be sold at either public or private sale, may be nonredeemable or redeemable (either with or without premium), and may carry such registration privileges as to either principal and interest, principal only, or both, as shall be prescribed by the common council or said town of Valdez. The bonds shall bear the signatures of the mayor and of the clerk of the town of Valdez, and shall have impressed thereon the official seal of said municipality. The coupons to be annexed to such bonds shall bear the facsimile signatures of the mayor and of the clerk of said municipality. In case any Signatures. of the officers whose signatures or countersignatures appear on the bonds shall cease to be such officers before delivery of such bonds, said signatures or countersignatures, whether manual or facsimile, shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if said officers had remained in office until such delivery. Said bonds shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the common council Interest rate. of the town of Valdez, not to exceed, however, 6 per centum per annum, payable semiannually, and said bonds shall be sold at not less than the principal amount plus accrued interest.

2. 1990

   Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991

   Pub. L. 101–246 title IV § 412(b)(1) · 104 Stat. 15

   1. Amended · 22 U.S.C. § 277b

      Pub. L. 101–246 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)

   2. Redesignated · 22 U.S.C. § 277b

      Pub. L. 101–246 redesignated cls. (a) and (b) as (1) and (2), respectively

   3. Added · 22 U.S.C. § 277b

      Pub. L. 101–246 added cl. (3)

   4. Added · 22 U.S.C. § 277b

      Pub. L. 101–246 added subsecs. (b) and (c)

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 101–246 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), redesignated cls. (a) and (b) as (1) and (2), respectively, added cl. (3), and added subsecs. (b) and (c).

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (1) in section 3 (22 U.S.C. 277b) by— (A) inserting “(1)” after “authorized”; (B) striking out “and (b)” and inserting in lieu thereof “(2)”; (C) inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: “; and (3) to carry out preliminary surveys, operations, and maintenance of the interceptor system constructed to intercept sewage flows from Tijuana from selected canyon areas”; and (D) adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: “(b) Expenditures for the Rio Grande bank protection project shall be subject to the provisions and conditions made with respect to that project in the first undesignated paragraph under the heading ‘International Obligations’ contained in the Act of April 25, 1945 (59 Stat. 89). “(c) The Anzalduas diversion dam shall not be operated for irrigation or water supply purposes in the United States unless suitable arrangements have been made with the prospective water users for repayment to the Government of the United States for such portions of the dam as shall have been allocated to such purposes by the Secretary of State”; and

3. 1996

   Human Rights, Refugee, and Other Foreign Relations Provisions Act of 1996

   Pub. L. 104–319 title I § 104 · 110 Stat. 3864

   Added · 22 U.S.C. § 277b(d)

   Pub. L. 104–319 added subsec. (d)

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104–319 added subsec. (d).

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 104. INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION. The Act of May 13, 1924 (49 Stat. 660, 22 U.S.C. 277–277f) is amended in section 3 (22 U.S.C. 277b) by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(d) Pursuant to the authority of subsection (a) and in order to facilitate further compliance with the terms of the Convention for Equitable Distribution of the Waters of the Rio Grande, May 21, 1906, United States-Mexico, the Secretary of State, acting through the United States Commissioner of the International Boundary and Water Commission, may make improvements to the Rio Grande Canalization Project, originally authorized by the Act of August 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 961). Such improvements may include all such works as may be needed to stabilize the Rio Grande in the reach between the Percha Diversion Dam in New Mexico and the American Diversion Dam in El Paso.”.

6 of 6 references resolved to an enrolled provision