Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 11 — Foreign Agents and Propaganda
§ 617. Liability of officers
Statutory text
Each officer, or person performing the functions of an officer, and each director, or person performing the functions of a director, of an agent of a foreign principal which is not an individual shall be under obligation to cause such agent to execute and file a registration statement and supplements thereto as and when such filing is required under subsections (a) and (b) of section 612 of this title and shall also be under obligation to cause such agent to comply with all the requirements of sections 614(a) and (b) and 615 of this title and all other requirements of this subchapter. Dissolution of any organization acting as an agent of a foreign principal shall not relieve any officer, or person performing the functions of an officer, or any director, or person performing the functions of a director, from complying with the provisions of this section. In case of failure of any such agent of a foreign principal to comply with any of the requirements of this subchapter, each of its officers, or persons performing the functions of officers, and each of its directors, or persons performing the functions of directors, shall be subject to prosecution therefor.
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. 75–327 § 7 · 52 Stat. 631
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 617
June 8, 1938, ch. 327, § 7, 52 Stat. 633
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 8, 1938, ch. 327, § 7, 52 Stat. 633Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after the date Effective date. of its enactment.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
Section 7 of act , prior to the general amendment of that act by act , provided for the effective date of the 1938 act. See Effective Date note set out under section 611 of this title.
Amendments1942–1950 · 2 rounds
1950
Act , continued the obligation of officers, directors, and persons acting as such to comply with this subchapter despite the dissolution of a foreign agent.
1942
Act , amended section generally.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1942 Amendment
Amendment by act , effective on the sixtieth day after , except that prior to such sixtieth day the Attorney General may make, prescribe, amend, and rescind such rules, regulations, and forms as may be necessary to carry out act , see section 3 of act , set out as a note under section 611 of this title.
Credits
1938–1950 · 3 acts
- 1938June 8, 1938, ch. 327, § 7, 52 Stat. 633
- 1942Apr. 29, 1942, ch. 263, § 1, 56 Stat. 256
- 1950Aug. 3, 1950, ch. 524, § 2, 64 Stat. 400.
Show as published
(June 8, 1938, ch. 327, § 7, 52 Stat. 633; Apr. 29, 1942, ch. 263, § 1, 56 Stat. 256; Aug. 3, 1950, ch. 524, § 2, 64 Stat. 400.)