Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 52 — Foreign Service
§ 4085. Entertainment and representation expenses
Statutory text
Notwithstanding section 5536 of title 5, the Secretary may provide for official receptions and may pay entertainment and representational expenses (including expenses of family members) to enable the Department and the Service to provide for the proper representation of the United States and its interests. In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, provide for the use of United States products, including American wine.
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. 96–465 title I § 905 · 94 Stat. 2071
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 4085
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 905, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2128.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 905, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2128.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 905. Representation Expenses.— Notwithstanding section 5536 of title 5, United States Code, the Secretary may provide for official receptions and may pay entertainment and representational expenses (including expenses of family members) to enable the Department and the Service to provide for the proper representation of the United States and its interests. In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, provide for the use of United States products, including American wine.
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