Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102

§3715 Establishment of Compensation Fund

Title 22 › CHAPTER 51 — PANAMA CANAL › SUBCHAPTER I — ADMINISTRATION AND REGULATIONS › Part 3 — Funds and Accounts › subpart i — funds › § 3715

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Sets up a new account in the U.S. Treasury called the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund. The law will refer to it as "the Fund."

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §3715

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There is established in the Treasury of the United States the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund (hereafter in this Act referred to as the “Fund”).

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 100–705, Nov. 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 4685, known as the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund Act of 1988, which enacted sections 3715 to 3715d of this title, amended section 3612, 3712, and 3731 of this title, and enacted provisions set out as notes under section 3601 and 3612 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

of 1988 Amendment note set out under section 3601 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund Act of 1988, and not as part of the Panama Canal Act of 1979 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1988, see section 10 of Pub. L. 100–705, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1988 Amendment note under section 3612 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 3715

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102