---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 289a"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "289a"
heading: "Designation of representative and alternates; compensation"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/289a"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XIX — International Refugee Organization"
---

# §289a. Designation of representative and alternates; compensation


The President shall designate from time to time a representative of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) and not to exceed two alternates to attend a specified session or specified sessions of the general council of the Organization. Whenever the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) is elected to membership on the executive committee, the President shall designate from time to time, either from among the aforesaid representative and alternates or otherwise, a representative of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) and not to exceed one alternate to attend sessions of the executive committee. Such representative or representatives shall each be entitled to receive compensation at a rate not to exceed $12,000 per annum, and any such alternate shall be entitled to receive compensation at a rate not to exceed $10,000 per annum, for such period or periods as the President may specify, except that no Member of the Senate or House of Representatives or officer of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) who is designated as such a representative shall be entitled to receive such compensation.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1947, ch. 185, § 2, 61 Stat. 215.)