---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 262"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "262"
heading: "President’s participation in international congresses restricted"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/262"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
---

# §262. President’s participation in international congresses restricted


The Executive shall not extend or accept any invitation to participate in any international congress, conference, or like event, without first having specific authority of law to do so.


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 149, 37 Stat. 913.)