§ 1642l. — Payment of awards.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC1642l]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 21--SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS
SUBCHAPTER IV--CLAIMS AGAINST CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Sec. 1642l. Payment of awards
(a) Manner of payment
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed, out of the
sums covered into the Czechoslovakian Claims Fund, to make payments on
account of awards certified by the Commission pursuant to this
subchapter as follows and in the following order of priority:
(1) Payment in the amount of $1,000 or in the amount of the award,
whichever is less.
(2) Thereafter, payments from time to time on account of the unpaid
balance of each remaining award made pursuant to this subchapter which
shall bear to such unpaid balance the same proportion as the total
amount in the fund available for distribution at the time such payments
are made bears to the aggregate unpaid balance of all such awards.
(b) Regulations
Such payments, and applications for such payments, shall be made in
accordance with such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall
prescribe.
(c) ``Award'' defined
For the purpose of making any such payments, an ``award'' shall be
deemed to mean the aggregate of all awards certified in favor of the
same claimant.
(d) Payment of interest of deceased persons or persons under legal
disability
If any person to whom any payment is to be made pursuant to this
subchapter is deceased or is under a legal disability, payment shall be
made to his legal representative, except that if any payment to be made
is not over $1,000 and there is no qualified executor or administrator,
payment may be made to the person or persons found by the Comptroller
General to be entitled thereto, without the necessity of compliance with
the requirements of law with respect to the administration of estates.
(e) Partial payments
Subject to the provisions of any claims agreement hereafter
concluded between the Governments of Czechoslovakia and the United
States, payment of any award pursuant to this subchapter shall not,
unless such payment is for the full amount of the claim, as determined
by the Commission to be valid, with respect to which the award is made,
extinguish such claim, or be construed to have divested any claimant, or
the United States on his behalf, of any rights against any foreign
government for the unpaid balance of his claim.
(Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title IV, Sec. 413, as added Pub. L. 85-604,
Sec. 1, Aug. 8, 1958, 72 Stat. 530.)
