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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 9 — Foreign Wars, War Materials, and Neutrality

§ 408. Use of land and naval forces to prevent exportation

Statutory text

The President may employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States as he may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 401 to 408 of this title.

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. 65–30 · 40 Stat. 217

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 408

    (June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title VI, § 8, 40 Stat. 225.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title VI, § 8, 40 Stat. 225.)

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Executive Documents

Air Force

For transfer of certain functions insofar as they pertain to the Air Force, and to the extent that they were not previously transferred to the Secretary of the Air Force from the Secretary of the Army, see Secretary of Defense Transfer Order No. 40 [App. A(1)], .

Credits

(June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title VI, § 8, 40 Stat. 225.)

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