Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 8 — Foreign Service Buildings
§ 296. Duties of Secretary of State with respect to commission and properties
Statutory text
For the purposes of this chapter the Secretary of State is authorized to supervise, preserve, maintain, operate, and, when deemed necessary, to insure the Foreign Service properties in foreign countries and the other properties acquired in accordance with the provisions of this chapter; to rent and insure objects of art; to collect information and formulate plans; and, without regard to civil service and classification laws, to obtain architectural and other expert technical services as may be necessary and pay therefor the scale of professional fees as established by local authority, law or custom, and to make expenditures without regard to section 295a of this title requiring purchase of articles manufactured in 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. 69–250 § 5 · 44 Stat. 403
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 296
May 7, 1926, ch. 250, § 5, 44 Stat. 404
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 7, 1926, ch. 250, § 5, 44 Stat. 404Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. The Secretary of State is empowered, subject to the Plans to be formulated for use of Commission. direction of the commission, to collect information and to formulate plans for the use of the commission and to supervise and preserve the diplomatic and consular properties of the United States in foreign countries and the properties acquired under this Act. In Employment of special architectural and technical services. Compensation. the collection of such information and in the formulation of such plans he may, subject to the direction of the commission, obtain such special architectural or other expert technical services as may be necessary and pay therefor, not exceeding in any case 5 per centum of the cost of construction or remodeling of the properties in respect to which said special services are rendered, from such appropriations as Congress may make under this Act, without regard to civil service laws or regulations and the provisions of the Classification Act of 1923.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 295a of this title, referred to in text, was omitted from the Code.
Amendments
1952—Act , amended section generally to authorize Secretary of State to supervise, preserve, maintain, operate, and insure Foreign Service property in foreign countries.
Credits
1926–1952 · 2 acts
- 1926May 7, 1926, ch. 250, § 5, 44 Stat. 404
- 1952June 19, 1952, ch. 446, § 3, 66 Stat. 140.
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(May 7, 1926, ch. 250, § 5, 44 Stat. 404; June 19, 1952, ch. 446, § 3, 66 Stat. 140.)