Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 8 — Foreign Service Buildings
§ 296a. Maintenance management of overseas property
Statutory text
The Director of the Office of Foreign Buildings Operations shall—
direct overseas posts to make annual building condition assessments of buildings and facilities used by the post;
not later than 90 days after , revise the Foreign Affairs Manual to stipulate that the Buildings and Maintenance Handbook shall be used by each post to identify their maintenance needs, standardize their maintenance operations, and conduct annual assessments as required by paragraph (1);
direct the Office of Foreign Buildings Operations to provide proper training and assistance to posts to ensure that annual surveys are effectively completed; and
direct overseas posts to ensure that all maintenance program fiscal transactions are properly encoded in the Department of State accounting system to enable compilation of actual expenditures on routine maintenance and specific maintenance funded by the Office of Foreign Buildings Operations.
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.
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993
Pub. L. 102–138 title I § 125 · 105 Stat. 647
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 296a
(Pub. L. 102–138, title I, § 125, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 659.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 102–138, title I, § 125, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 659.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 125. MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT OF OVERSEAS PROPERTY. The Director of the Office of Foreign Buildings Operations shall— (1) direct overseas posts to make annual building condition assessments of buildings and facilities used by the post; (2) not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, revise the Foreign Affairs Manual to stipulate that the Buildings and Maintenance Handbook shall be used by each post to identify their maintenance needs, standardize their maintenance operations, and conduct annual assessments as required by paragraph (1); (3) direct the Office of Foreign Buildings Operations to provide proper training and assistance to posts to ensure that annual surveys are effectively completed; and (4) direct overseas posts to ensure that all maintenance program fiscal transactions are properly encoded in the Department of State accounting system to enable compilation of actual expenditures on routine maintenance and specific maintenance funded by the Office of Foreign Buildings Operations.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993, and not as part of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926, which comprises this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Authority of Secretary of State
Except as otherwise provided, Secretary of State to have and exercise any authority vested by law in any official or office of Department of State and references to such officials or offices deemed to refer to Secretary of State or Department of State, as appropriate, see section 2651a of this title and section 161(d) of Pub. L. 103–236, set out as a note under section 2651a of this title.