2011 US Code
Title 22 - Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 38 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE (§§ 2651 - 2734a)
Section 2724 - Fees for commercial services
View Metadata| Publication Title | United States Code, 2006 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE CHAPTER 38 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE Sec. 2724 - Fees for commercial services |
| Contains | section 2724 |
| Date | 2011 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 3, 2012 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title I, §52, as added Pub. L. 103-236, title I, §136, Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 396; amended Pub. L. 105-277, div. G, subdiv. B, title XXII, §2204, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-808. |
| Statutes at Large References | 108 Stat. 396 112 Stat. 2681-808 |
| Public Law References | Public Law 103-236, Public Law 105-277 |
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(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of State is authorized to charge a fee to cover the actual or estimated cost of providing any person, firm or organization (other than agencies of the United States Government) with commercial services at posts abroad on matters within the authority of the Department of State.
(2) The authority of this section may be exercised only in countries where the Department of Commerce does not perform commercial services for which it collects fees.
(b) Use of feesFunds collected under the authority of subsection (a) of this section shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to any Department of State appropriation to recover the costs of providing commercial services. Funds deposited under this subsection shall remain available for obligation through September 30 of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the funds were deposited.
(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title I, §52, as added Pub. L. 103–236, title I, §136, Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 396; amended Pub. L. 105–277, div. G, subdiv. B, title XXII, §2204, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–808.)
Amendments1998—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105–277 inserted at end “Funds deposited under this subsection shall remain available for obligation through September 30 of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the funds were deposited.”
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