22 U.S.C. § 3306 — Services to United States citizens on Taiwan

submitted 47 years ago by Pub. L. 96-8 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 156 words · no verdicts yet

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The Institute may authorize its employees in Taiwan to perform specified notarial, estate-conservatorship, and consular-like acts for United States persons. Acts performed under the section are valid in the United States as if performed by another person authorized by United States law.

(a) Authorized services. The Institute may authorize an employee in Taiwan (1) to administer or receive oaths, affirmations, affidavits, or depositions and perform any notarial act that United States law requires or allows a United States notary public to perform; (2) to act as provisional conservator of the personal estates of deceased United States citizens; and (3) to assist and protect United States persons by performing other acts that United States law, as the President specifies, authorizes outside the United States for consular purposes. (b) Acts by authorized employees. Acts an authorized Institute employee performs under this section are valid and have the same force and effect in the United States as if performed by another person authorized under United States law to perform them. 1 is an OCR artifact and is ignored.

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(a) Authorized services

The Institute may authorize any of its employees on Taiwan—

(1)

to administer to or take from any person an oath, affirmation, affidavit, or deposition, and to perform any notarial act which any notary public is required or authorized by law to perform within the United States;

(2)

To 1 act as provisional conservator of the personal estates of deceased United States citizens; and

(3)

to assist and protect the interests of United States persons by performing other acts such as are authorized to be performed outside the United States for consular purposes by such laws of the United States as the President may specify.

(b) Acts by authorized employees

Acts performed by authorized employees of the Institute under this section shall be valid, and of like force and effect within the United States, as if performed by any other person authorized under the laws of the United States to perform such acts.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 96–8, § 7, Apr. 10, 1979, 93 Stat. 17.)

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1979Enacted · Pub. L. 96-8 · 93 Stat. 17

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