Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)

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now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
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legal/us/code/title-22/chapter-52/section-3952.md

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+title: "22 U.S.C. § 3952"
+description: "Diplomatic and consular missions"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 22
+title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
+chapter_number: "52"
+chapter_name: "FOREIGN SERVICE"
+section: "3952"
+citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3952"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
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+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t22/s3952"
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+---
+
+# 22 U.S.C. § 3952 - Diplomatic and consular missions
+
+## Text
+
+(a) Recommendations by Secretary of State; appointment by President; vice consul; performance of official functions under commission The Secretary of State may recommend to the President that a member of the Service who is a citizen of the United States be commissioned as a diplomatic or consular officer or both. The President may, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, commission such member of the Service as a diplomatic or consular officer or both. The Secretary of State may commission as a vice consul a member of the Service who is a citizen of the United States. All official functions performed by a diplomatic or consular officer, including a vice consul, shall be performed under such a commission.
+
+(b) Function of commissioned Service members Members of the Service commissioned under this section may, in accordance with their commissions, perform any function which any category of diplomatic officer (other than a chief of mission) or consular officer is authorized by law to perform.
+
+(c) Limits of consular districts The Secretary of State shall define the limits of consular districts.
+
+(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 312, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2087.)