---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2689"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2689"
heading: "American Sections, International Joint Commission, United States and Canada; funds for representation expenses and official entertainment within the United States"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2689"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Department of State"
---

# §2689. American Sections, International Joint Commission, United States and Canada; funds for representation expenses and official entertainment within the United States


Each fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 1977), the Secretary of State may use [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) appropriated for the American Sections, International Joint [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2), [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) and Canada, for representation expenses and official entertainment within the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) for such American Sections.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title I, § 19, as added Pub. L. 94–350, title I, § 104, July 12, 1976, 90 Stat. 824; amended Pub. L. 95–426, title I, § 110(a), Oct. 7, 1978, 92 Stat. 967; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 97–241, title II, § 202(a), Aug. 24, 1982, 96 Stat. 282.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–426 struck out “not to exceed $1,500 of the” after “the Secretary of State may use”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

Pub. L. 95–426, title I, § 110(b), Oct. 7, 1978, 92 Stat. 967, provided that: “The amendment made by this section [amending this section] shall take effect on October 1, 1978.”