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[CITE: 8USC1403]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
             SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION
 
       Part I--Nationality at Birth and Collective Naturalization
 
Sec. 1403. Persons born in the Canal Zone or Republic of Panama 
        on or after February 26, 1904
        
    (a) Any person born in the Canal Zone on or after February 26, 1904, 
and whether before or after the effective date of this chapter, whose 
father or mother or both at the time of the birth of such person was or 
is a citizen of the United States, is declared to be a citizen of the 
United States.
    (b) Any person born in the Republic of Panama on or after February 
26, 1904, and whether before or after the effective date of this 
chapter, whose father or mother or both at the time of the birth of such 
person was or is a citizen of the United States employed by the 
Government of the United States or by the Panama Railroad Company, or 
its successor in title, is declared to be a citizen of the United 
States.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, Sec. 303, 66 Stat. 236.)

                       References in Text

    For definition of Canal Zone, referred to in text, see section 
3602(b) of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
    The effective date of this chapter, referred to in text, is the 
180th day immediately following June 27, 1952. See section 407 of act 
June 27, 1952, set out as an Effective Date note under section 1101 of 
this title.

                         Change of Name

    Panama Railroad Company redesignated Panama Canal Company by act 
Sept. 26, 1950, ch. 1049, Sec. 2(a)(2), 64 Stat. 1038. References to 
Panama Canal Company in laws of the United States are deemed to refer to 
Panama Canal Commission pursuant to section 3602(b)(5) of Title 22, 
Foreign Relations and Intercourse.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1452 of this title.
