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[CITE: 22USC3775]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                        CHAPTER 51--PANAMA CANAL
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--ADMINISTRATION AND REGULATIONS
 
           Part 4--Claims for Injuries to Persons or Property
 
                        subpart ii--vessel damage
 
Sec. 3775. Settlement of claims

    The Commission, by mutual agreement, compromise, or otherwise, may 
adjust and determine the amounts of the respective awards of damages 
pursuant to this subpart. Such amounts may be paid only out of money 
allotted for the maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal. 
Acceptance by a claimant of the amount awarded to him shall be deemed to 
be in full settlement of such claim against the Government of the United 
States.

(Pub. L. 96-70, title I, Sec. 1415, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 486; Pub. 
L. 99-209, Sec. 4, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1717; Pub. L. 104-106, div. 
C, title XXXV, Sec. 3529(5), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 642.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-106 struck out ``appropriated or'' after ``out of 
money'' in second sentence.
    1985--Pub. L. 99-209 struck out the subsec. (a) designation, 
substituted ``The Commission, by'' for ``Subject to subsection (b) of 
this section, the Commission, by'' and ``Such amounts may be paid only 
out of money appropriated or allotted for the maintenance and operation 
of the Panama Canal'' for ``Such amounts shall be payable promptly out 
of any moneys appropriated or allotted for the maintenance and operation 
of the Panama Canal'', and struck out subsec. (b) which provided that 
the Commission could not adjust and pay any claim for damages for 
injuries arising by reason of the presence of the vessel in the Panama 
Canal or adjacent waters outside the locks where the amount of the claim 
exceeded $120,000 but had to submit the claim to the Congress in a 
special report containing the material facts and the recommendation of 
the Commission thereon.


                    Effective Date of 1985 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 99-209 applicable to any claim arising on or 
after Oct. 1, 1979, see section 7(a) of Pub. L. 99-209, set out as a 
note under section 3771 of this title.
