Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc.
§ 279c. Congressional authority necessary for acceptance of new obligations in Organization
Statutory text
Unless Congress by law authorizes such action, neither the President nor any person or agency shall on behalf of the United States accept any amendment under paragraph 1 of article XX of the Constitution of the Organization involving any new obligation for the United States.
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.
Pub. L. 79–342 § 4 · 59 Stat. 529
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 279c
(July 31, 1945, ch. 342, § 4, 59 Stat. 530.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 31, 1945, ch. 342, § 4, 59 Stat. 530.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. New obligations. Unless Congress by law authorizes such action, neither the President nor any person or agency shall on behalf of the United States accept any amendment under paragraph 1 of article XX of the Constitution of the Organization involving any new obligation for the United States.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(July 31, 1945, ch. 342, § 4, 59 Stat. 530.)