---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 279c"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "279c"
heading: "Congressional authority necessary for acceptance of new obligations in Organization"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/279c"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter VI — United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization"
---

# §279c. Congressional authority necessary for acceptance of new obligations in Organization


Unless Congress by law authorizes such action, neither the President nor any person or agency shall on behalf of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) accept any amendment under paragraph 1 of article XX of the Constitution of the Organization involving any new obligation for the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1).


## Source credit

(July 31, 1945, ch. 342, § 4, 59 Stat. 530.)