---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 77hh"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "77hh"
heading: "Assessments by Corporation on holders of foreign securities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/77hh"
units:
  - "Chapter 2A — Securities and Trust Indentures"
  - "Subchapter II — Foreign Securities"
---

# §77hh. Assessments by Corporation on holders of foreign securities


The Corporation may in its discretion levy charges, assessed on a pro rata basis, on the holders of foreign [securities](/usc/15/77b.md?p=a-1) deposited with it: Provided, That any charge levied at the time of depositing [securities](/usc/15/77b.md?p=a-1) with the Corporation shall not exceed one fifth of 1 per centum of the face value of such [securities](/usc/15/77b.md?p=a-1): Provided further, That any additional charges shall bear a close relationship to the cost of operations and negotiations including those enumerated in sections [77dd](/usc/15/77dd.md) and [77ee](/usc/15/77ee.md) of this title and shall not exceed 1 per centum of the face value of such [securities](/usc/15/77b.md?p=a-1).


## Source credit

(May 27, 1933, ch. 38, title II, § 207, 48 Stat. 95.)