---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3172"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3172"
heading: "Extension of stay"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3172"
units:
  - "Chapter 44 — National Security"
  - "Subchapter VII — Application of Sanctions Laws to Intelligence Activities"
---

# §3172. Extension of stay


Whenever the President determines and reports to Congress in accordance with [section 3173 of this title](/usc/50/3173.md) that a stay of sanctions or related actions pursuant to [section 3171 of this title](/usc/50/3171.md) has not afforded sufficient time to obviate the risk to an ongoing criminal investigation or to an [intelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=1) source or method that gave rise to the stay, he may extend such stay for a period of time specified by the President, which period may not exceed 120 days. The authority of this section may be used to extend the period of a stay pursuant to [section 3171 of this title](/usc/50/3171.md) for successive periods of not more than 120 days each.


## Source credit

(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title IX, § 902, as added Pub. L. 104–93, title III, § 303(a), Jan. 6, 1996, 109 Stat. 964.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 441a of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.