United States-Mexico Border Health Commission
Signed December 21, 2004·George W. Bush·69 FR 77605
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Designates the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission as a public international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act. This allows members and employees of the Commission's Mexican Section to receive the same privileges, exemptions, and immunities that are normally given to officers and employees of foreign governments under United States entry and departure laws. The order states that no other privileges, exemptions, or immunities under the Act are being extended, and clarifies that this designation does not limit any other privileges, exemptions, or immunities the Commission may already have or later acquire under law.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288) (the “Act”), and having found that the United States participates in the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission (USMBHC) pursuant to the United-States Mexico Border Health Commission Act, Public Law 103-400 (22 U.S.C. 290n et seq.), I hereby
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Executive Order 13367 of December 21, 2004
United States-Mexico Border Health Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including section 1 of the International
Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288) (the
“Act”), and having found that the United States
participates in the United States-Mexico Border Health
Commission (USMBHC) pursuant to the United-States
Mexico Border Health Commission Act, Public Law 103-400
(22 U.S.C. 290n et seq.), I hereby designate the USMBHC
as a public international organization for purposes of
the International Organizations Immunities Act. I
hereby extend to members and employees of the Mexican
Section of the USMBHC the same privileges, exemptions,
and immunities as are accorded under similar
circumstances to officers and employees, respectively,
of foreign governments with regard to the laws
regulating entry into and departure from the United
States as provided for in section 7(a) of the Act (22
U.S.C. 288d(a)). No other privileges, exemptions, or
immunities of the Act are extended under this order.
This designation is not intended to abridge in any
respect privileges, exemptions, or immunities that the
USMBHC otherwise may have acquired or may acquire by
law.
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 21, 2004.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 21, 2004. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.