2019 US Code
Title 22 - Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 52 - Foreign Service
Subchapter III - Appointments
Sec. 3952 - Diplomatic and consular missions
| 22 U.S.C. § 3952 (2019) |
| §3952. Diplomatic and consular missions |
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(a) Recommendations by Secretary of State; appointment by President; vice consul; performance of official functions under commission
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. |
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(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, §312, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2087.) |
| United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE |
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| Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE CHAPTER 52 - FOREIGN SERVICE SUBCHAPTER III - APPOINTMENTS Sec. 3952 - Diplomatic and consular missions |
| section 3952 |
| 2019 |
| January 24, 2020 |
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| 94 Stat. 2087 |
| Public Law 96-465 |
