2011 US Code
Title 22 - Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 52 - FOREIGN SERVICE (§§ 3901 - 4226)
Subchapter III - APPOINTMENTS (§§ 3941 - 3952)
Section 3952 - Diplomatic and consular missions
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 52 - FOREIGN SERVICE SUBCHAPTER III - APPOINTMENTS Sec. 3952 - Diplomatic and consular missions |
| Contains | section 3952 |
| Date | 2011 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 3, 2012 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Pub. L. 96-465, title I, §312, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2087. |
| Statutes at Large Reference | 94 Stat. 2087 |
| Public Law Reference | Public Law 96-465 |
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The Secretary of State may recommend to the President that a member of the Service who is a citizen of the United States be commissioned as a diplomatic or consular officer or both. The President may, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, commission such member of the Service as a diplomatic or consular officer or both. The Secretary of State may commission as a vice consul a member of the Service who is a citizen of the United States. All official functions performed by a diplomatic or consular officer, including a vice consul, shall be performed under such a commission.
(b) Function of commissioned Service membersMembers of the Service commissioned under this section may, in accordance with their commissions, perform any function which any category of diplomatic officer (other than a chief of mission) or consular officer is authorized by law to perform.
(c) Limits of consular districtsThe Secretary of State shall define the limits of consular districts.
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, §312, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2087.)
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