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2022 U.S. Code
Title 22 - Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 92 - Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment
Subchapter V - Masih Alinejad Harassment and Unlawful Targeting
Sec. 8564 - Report and imposition of sanctions with respect to foreign financial institutions conducting significant transactions with persons responsible for or complicit in abuses toward dissidents on behalf of the Government of Iran

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Citation 22 U.S.C. § 8564 (2022)
Section Name §8564. Report and imposition of sanctions with respect to foreign financial institutions conducting significant transactions with persons responsible for or complicit in abuses toward dissidents on behalf of the Government of Iran
Section Text (a) Report required

Not earlier than 30 days and not later than 60 days after the Secretary of State submits to the appropriate congressional committees a report required by section 8563(a) of this title, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that identifies any foreign financial institution that knowingly conducts a significant transaction with a foreign person identified in the report submitted under section 8563(a) of this title on or after the date on which the foreign person is identified in that report.

(b) Imposition of sanctions

The Secretary of the Treasury may prohibit the opening, or prohibit or impose strict conditions on the maintaining, in the United States of a correspondent account or a payable-through account by a foreign financial institution identified under subsection (a).

Source Credit

(Pub. L. 117–328, div. AA, title II, §205, Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5535.)


Editorial Notes EDITORIAL NOTES CODIFICATION

Section was enacted as part of the Masih Alinejad Harassment and Unlawful Targeting Act of 2022, also known as the Masih Alinejad HUNT Act of 2022, and not as part of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 which comprises this chapter.

Publication Title United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 4, 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 92 - COMPREHENSIVE IRAN SANCTIONS, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND DIVESTMENT
SUBCHAPTER V - MASIH ALINEJAD HARASSMENT AND UNLAWFUL TARGETING
Sec. 8564 - Report and imposition of sanctions with respect to foreign financial institutions conducting significant transactions with persons responsible for or complicit in abuses toward dissidents on behalf of the Government of Iran
Contains section 8564
Date 2022
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 5, 2023
Positive Law No
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large References 136 Stat. 5535
Public Law References Public Law 117-328
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