---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4307"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4307"
heading: "Preemption"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4307"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — Authorities Relating to the Regulation of Foreign Missions"
---

# §4307. Preemption


Notwithstanding any other law, no act of any Federal agency shall be effective to confer or deny any benefit with respect to any [foreign mission](/usc/22/4302.md?p=a-3) contrary to this chapter. Nothing in section [4302](/usc/22/4302.md), [4303](/usc/22/4303.md), [4304](/usc/22/4304.md), or [4305](/usc/22/4305.md) of this title may be construed to preempt any State or municipal law or governmental authority regarding zoning, land use, health, safety, or welfare, except that a denial by the [Secretary](/usc/22/4302.md?p=a-5) involving a benefit for a [foreign mission](/usc/22/4302.md?p=a-3) within the jurisdiction of a particular State or local government shall be controlling.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title II, § 207, as added Pub. L. 97–241, title II, § 202(b), Aug. 24, 1982, 96 Stat. 288.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1982, see section 204 of Pub. L. 97–241, set out as a note under section 4301 of this title.