§2552 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

Defines two words used in the chapter. "Arms control" and "disarmament" mean carrying out international agreements to find, check, inspect, limit, reduce, or remove armed forces and weapons, and to set up international controls or organizations to help keep the peace. "Government agency" means parts of the executive branch—departments, agencies, boards, offices, and officials—and any corporation wholly or partly owned by the United States that works for the U.S. government.

Title 22, §2552

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As used in this chapter—

(a)The terms “arms control” and “disarmament” mean the identification, verification, inspection, limitation, control, reduction, or elimination, of armed forces and armaments of all kinds under international agreement including the necessary steps taken under such an agreement to establish an effective system of international control, or to create and strengthen international organizations for the maintenance of peace.

(b)The term “Government agency” means any executive department, commission, agency, independent establishment, corporation wholly or partly owned by the United States which is an instrumentality of the United States, or any board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, authority, administration, or other establishment in the executive branch of Government.

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Amendments

1998—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105–277, § 1223(2), struck out subsec. (c) which read as follows: “The term ‘Agency’ means the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.”

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Effective Date

of 1998 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 105–277 effective Apr. 1, 1999, see section 1201 of Pub. L. 105–277, set out as an

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note under section 6511 of this title.

§2552 Definitions

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Title 22, §2552

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