§ 1475g. — Overseas public diplomacy posts and personnel overseas.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC1475g]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 18--UNITED STATES INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
SUBCHAPTER VII--ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
Sec. 1475g. Overseas public diplomacy posts and personnel
overseas
(a) Limitation
Except as provided under this section no funds authorized to be
appropriated to the Department of State may be used to pay any expense
associated with the closing of any overseas public diplomacy post
abroad.
(b) Notification
Not less than 45 days before the closing of any overseas public
diplomacy post abroad the Secretary of State shall notify the Committee
on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate.
(c) Exceptions
This section shall not apply to any overseas public diplomacy post
closed--
(1) because of a break or downgrading of diplomatic relations
between the United States and the country in which the post is
located; or
(2) where there is a real and present threat to United States
diplomats in the city where the post is located and where a travel
advisory warning against travel by United States citizens to the
city has been issued by the Department of State.
(Jan. 27, 1948, ch. 36, title VIII, Sec. 812, as added Pub. L. 102-138,
title II, Sec. 206(a), Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 693; amended Pub. L.
105-277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XIII, Sec. 1335(a)(5), Oct. 21, 1998,
112 Stat. 2681-787.)
Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to this section were contained in Pub. L. 100-
204, title II, Sec. 204, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1373, which was set
out as a note under section 1461 of this title prior to repeal by Pub.
L. 102-138, title II, Sec. 206(c), Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 693.
Amendments
1998--Pub. L. 105-277, Sec. 1335(a)(5)(D), substituted ``Overseas
public diplomacy'' for ``USIA'' in section catchline.
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105-277, Sec. 1335(a)(5)(A), (B), substituted
``Department of State'' for ``United States Information Agency'' and
``overseas public diplomacy post'' for ``United States Information
Agency post''.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105-277, Sec. 1335(a)(5)(A), (C), substituted
``overseas public diplomacy post'' for ``United States Information
Agency post'' and ``Secretary of State'' for ``Director of the United
States Information Agency''.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105-277, Sec. 1335(a)(5)(A), substituted
``overseas public diplomacy post'' for ``United States Information
Agency post'' in introductory provisions.
Change of Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of Representatives treated as
referring to Committee on International Relations of House of
Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
Effective Date of 1998 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 105-277 effective Oct. 1, 1999, see section
1301 of Pub. L. 105-277, set out as an Effective Date note under section
6531 of this title.
Reductions in American Employees
Section 206(b) of Pub. L. 102-138, which provided that reductions
could not be made in number of American employees of United States
Information Agency stationed abroad until number of such employees was
same percentage of total number of American employees of Agency as
number of American employees of Agency stationed abroad in 1981 was to
total number of American employees at Agency at same time in 1981, was
repealed by Pub. L. 105-277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XIII,
Sec. 1336(4), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-790.
