22 U.S.C. § 3305 — The American Institute in Taiwan
submitted 47 years ago by Pub. L. 96-8 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 257 words · no verdicts yet
The President and United States agencies conduct Taiwan-related programs and transactions through the American Institute in Taiwan or a designated comparable successor nongovernmental entity, as directed by the President. Certain conflicting District of Columbia, State, or local laws are preempted.
(a) Programs, transactions, and other relations concerning Taiwan* carried out by the President or a United States agency must, as the President directs, be carried out by or through (1) the American Institute in Taiwan, a District of Columbia nonprofit corporation, or (2) a comparable successor nongovernmental entity the President designates. This chapter calls either entity the Institute.
(b) Whenever United States law authorizes or requires the President or an agency to enter into, perform, enforce, or keep in force an agreement or transaction concerning Taiwan, it must, as the President directs, be entered into, performed, and enforced by or through the Institute.
(c) A District of Columbia, State, or State political-subdivision law, rule, regulation, or ordinance that hinders or interferes with the Institute's functions under this chapter is preempted by this chapter.
Programs, transactions, and other relations conducted or carried out by the President or any agency of the United States Government with respect to Taiwan shall, in the manner and to the extent directed by the President, be conducted and carried out by or through—
The American Institute in Taiwan, a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, or
such comparable successor nongovernmental entity as the President may designate,
(hereafter in this chapter referred to as the “Institute”).
Whenever the President or any agency of the United States Government is authorized or required by or pursuant to the laws of the United States* to enter into, perform, enforce, or have in force an agreement or transaction relative to Taiwan, such agreement or transaction shall be entered into, performed, and enforced, in the manner and to the extent directed by the President, by or through the Institute.
To the extent that any law, rule, regulation, or ordinance of the District of Columbia, or of any State or political subdivision thereof in which the Institute is incorporated or doing business, impedes or otherwise interferes with the performance of the functions of the Institute pursuant to this chapter, such law, rule, regulation, or ordinance shall be deemed to be preempted by this chapter.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 96–8, § 6, Apr. 10, 1979, 93 Stat. 17.)
- 1979Enacted · Pub. L. 96-8 · 93 Stat. 17
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