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[CITE: 22USC1644l]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
             CHAPTER 21--SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS
 
        SUBCHAPTER VI--CLAIMS AGAINST GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
 
Sec. 1644l. Fees for services; limitation; penalty

    No remuneration on account of services rendered on behalf of any 
claimant, in connection with any claim filed with the Commission under 
this subchapter, shall exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid 
pursuant to any award certified under the provisions of this subchapter 
on account of such claims. Any agreement to the contrary shall be 
unlawful and void. Whoever, in the United States or elsewhere demands or 
receives, on account of services so rendered, any remuneration in excess 
of the maximum permitted by this section shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than 
$5,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both.

(Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title VI, Sec. 612, as added Pub. L. 94-542, 
Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2512.)
