---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 448"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "448"
heading: "Solicitation and collection of funds and contributions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/448"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Foreign Wars, War Materials, and Neutrality"
  - "Subchapter II — Neutrality"
---

# §448. Solicitation and collection of funds and contributions

- (a) **Unlawful acts—** Whenever the President shall have issued a proclamation under the authority of [section 441(a) of this title](/usc/22/441.md?p=a), it shall thereafter be unlawful for any [person](/usc/22/456.md?p=b) within the [United States](/usc/22/456.md?p=a) to solicit or receive any contribution for or on behalf of the government of any [state](/usc/22/456.md?p=e) named in such proclamation or for or on behalf of any agent or instrumentality of any such [state](/usc/22/456.md?p=e).
- (b) **Medical aid, food, and clothing—** Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the solicitation or collection of [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) and contributions to be used for medical [aid](/usc/22/2421e.md?p=1) and assistance, or for food and clothing to relieve human suffering, when such solicitation or collection of [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) and contributions is made on behalf of and for use by any [person](/usc/22/456.md?p=b) or organization which is not acting for or on behalf of any such government, but all such solicitations and collections of [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) and contributions shall be in accordance with and subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed.
- (c) **Revocation of proclamation—** Whenever any proclamation issued under the authority of [section 441(a) of this title](/usc/22/441.md?p=a) shall have been revoked with respect to any [state](/usc/22/456.md?p=e) the provisions of this section shall thereupon cease to apply with respect to such [state](/usc/22/456.md?p=e), except as to offenses committed prior to such revocation.

## Source credit

(Nov. 4, 1939, ch. 2, § 8, 54 Stat. 8.)