§ 3504. — General authorities; fiscal requirement for authorities.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC3504]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 50--INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL COOPERATION
Sec. 3504. General authorities; fiscal requirement for
authorities
(a) To carry out the purposes and functions of the Institute, the
President may--
(1) make and perform contracts and other agreements with any
individual, institution, corporation, or other body of persons
however designated, within or outside the United States, and with
governments or government agencies, domestic or foreign;
(2) make advances, grants, and loans to any individual,
institution, corporation, or other body of persons however
designated, within or outside the United States, and to governments
or government agencies, domestic or foreign;
(3) employ such personnel as necessary and fix their
compensation;
(4) make provision for compensation, transportation, housing,
subsistence (or per diem in lieu thereof), and health care or health
and accident insurance for foreign nationals engaged in activities
authorized by this chapter while they are away from their homes,
without regard to the provisions of any other law;
(5) accept and use money, funds, property, and services of any
kind by gift, devise, bequest, grant, or otherwise in furtherance of
the purposes of the Institute;
(6) acquire by purchase, lease, loan, bequest, or gift and hold
and dispose of by sale, lease, loan, or grant, real and personal
property of all kinds;
(7) prescribe, amend, and repeal such rules and regulations as
may be necessary to the conduct of the business of the Institute;
(8) utilize information, services, facilities, officers, and
employees of any agency of the United States Government;
(9) establish a principal office in the United States and such
other offices within or outside the United States, as may be
necessary;
(10) make such expenditures as may be necessary for
administering the provisions of this chapter;
(11) adopt, alter, and use an official seal for the Institute,
which shall be judicially noticed; and
(12) take such other actions as may be necessary and incident to
carrying out the functions of the Institute.
(b) Any authority provided by this section involving the expenditure
of appropriated funds shall be effective for a fiscal year only to such
extent or in such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts.
(Pub. L. 96-53, title IV, Sec. 404, Aug. 14, 1979, 93 Stat. 373.)
