---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3661"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3661"
heading: "Panama Canal Board of Appeals; duties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3661"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Panama Canal"
  - "Subchapter I — Administration and Regulations"
  - "Part 2"
  - "Subpart ii — wage and employment practices"
---

# §3661. Panama Canal Board of Appeals; duties

- (a) Subject to the provisions of this part, the [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) shall prescribe regulations establishing a Panama Canal Board of Appeals. The regulations shall provide for the number of members of the Board and their appointment, compensation, and terms of office, the selection of a Chairman of the Board, the appointment and compensation of the Board’s [employees](/usc/22/3651.md?p=3), and other appropriate matters relating to the Board.
- (b) The Board shall review and determine the appeals of [employees](/usc/22/3651.md?p=3) in accordance with [section 3662 of this title](/usc/22/3662.md). The decisions of the Board shall conform to the provisions of this subpart.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–70, title I, § 1221, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 466; Pub. L. 105–85, div. C, title XXXV, § 3548, Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 2073.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1997—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105–85 substituted “Commission” for “President”.