22 U.S.C. § 2458 — Authority of President
submitted 65 years ago by Pub. L. 87-256 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 335 words · no verdicts yet
The President may relax specified contracting, property, and spending rules for certain exchange functions, receive reimbursement for requested services, report to Congress, fund exhibits, and use title VIII exchange-law authorities.
(a) (1) If the President decides it advances this chapter, functions under § 2452(a)(2) and (3) may be performed without specified laws or authority limits governing contracts, property, or government spending. (2) The Information Agency Director may provide reimbursable United States services connected with authorized exchanges when requested by a department or executive agency; reimbursements go to the Agency's applicable appropriation. (b) The President must periodically report to Congress on activities and spending under this chapter and the amended 1948 Act. (c) For activities under § 2452(a)(2) and (3), the President may pay necessary costs of selecting, buying, renting, building, acquiring, and displaying exhibits and related materials, including transportation, insurance, installation, storage, maintenance, operation, space rental, and dismantling. (d) The President may use title VIII of the amended 1948 Act as necessary for this chapter.
Whenever the President determines it to be in furtherance of this chapter, the functions authorized in section 2452(a)(2) and (3) of this title may be performed without regard to such provisions of law or limitations of authority regulating or relating to the making, performance, amendment, or modification of contracts, the acquisition and disposition of property, and the expenditure of Government funds, as he may specify.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of the United States Information Agency may provide, on a reimbursable basis, services within the United States in connection with exchange activities otherwise authorized by this chapter when such services are requested by a department or executive agency. Reimbursements under this paragraph shall be credited to the applicable appropriation of the Agency.
The President shall submit periodic reports to the Congress of activities carried on and expenditures made in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter and of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, as amended [22 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.].
In connection with activities authorized by section 2452(a)(2) and (3) of this title, the President is authorized to provide for all necessary expenditures involved in the selection, purchase, rental, construction, or other acquisition of exhibits and materials and equipment therefor, and the actual display thereof, including but not limited to costs of transportation, insurance, installation, safekeeping and storage, maintenance and operation, rental of space, and dismantling.
The President is authorized to utilize the provisions of title VIII of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, as amended [22 U.S.C. 1471 et seq.], to the extent he deems necessary in carrying out the provisions and purposes of this chapter.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 87–256, § 108, Sept. 21, 1961, 75 Stat. 534; Pub. L. 96–60, title II, § 203(d), Aug. 15, 1979, 93 Stat. 399; Pub. L. 96–470, title II, § 212(a), Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2246; Pub. L. 97–241, title III, § 303(b), Aug. 24, 1982, 96 Stat. 291.)
- 1961Enacted · Pub. L. 87-256 · 75 Stat. 534
- 1979Amended · Pub. L. 96-60 · 93 Stat. 399
- 1980Amended · Pub. L. 96-470 · 94 Stat. 2246
- 1982Amended · Pub. L. 97-241 · 96 Stat. 291
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