Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 10 — Hemispheral Relations
§ 527. Purchases of implements of war, etc., from American Republics
Statutory text
The Secretaries of the Army and of the Navy are authorized to purchase arms, ammunition, and implements of war produced within the jurisdiction of any American republic if such arms, ammunition, or implements of war cannot be produced 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. 76–365 § 7 · 54 Stat. 396
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 527
June 15, 1940, ch. 365, § 7, 54 Stat. 397
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 15, 1940, ch. 365, § 7, 54 Stat. 397Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 7. The Secretaries of War and of the Navy are hereby authorized Purchase of certain arms, etc., from American republics. to purchase arms, ammunition, and implements of war produced within the jurisdiction of any American republic if such arms, ammunition, or implements of war cannot be produced in the United States.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act , was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.
Executive Documents
Secretary of the Air Force
For transfer of certain procurement and related functions and property, insofar as they pertain to Air Force, from Secretary of the Army and Department of the Army to Secretary of the Air Force and Department of the Air Force, see Secretary of Defense Transfer Order Nos. 6 [§ 1(a)(41)], eff. ; 39 [§ 2zz], .
Credits
1940–1947 · 2 acts
- 1940June 15, 1940, ch. 365, § 7, 54 Stat. 397
- 1947July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.
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(June 15, 1940, ch. 365, § 7, 54 Stat. 397; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)