22 U.S.C. § 611 : US Code - Section 611: Definitions

Search 22 U.S.C. § 611 : US Code - Section 611: Definitions

As used in and for the purposes of this subchapter -
(a) The term "person" includes an individual, partnership,
association, corporation, organization, or any other combination of
individuals;
(b) The term "foreign principal" includes -
(1) a government of a foreign country and a foreign political
party;
(2) a person outside of the United States, unless it is
established that such person is an individual and a citizen of
and domiciled within the United States, or that such person is
not an individual and is organized under or created by the laws
of the United States or of any State or other place subject to
the jurisdiction of the United States and has its principal place
of business within the United States; and
(3) a partnership, association, corporation, organization, or
other combination of persons organized under the laws of or
having its principal place of business in a foreign country.
(c) Expect (!1) as provided in subsection (d) of this section,
the term "agent of a foreign principal" means -
(1) any person who acts as an agent, representative, employee,
or servant, or any person who acts in any other capacity at the
order, request, or under the direction or control, of a foreign
principal or of a person any of whose activities are directly or
indirectly supervised, directed, controlled, financed, or
subsidized in whole or in major part by a foreign principal, and
who directly or through any other person -
(i) engages within the United States in political activities
for or in the interests of such foreign principal;
(ii) acts within the United States as a public relations
counsel, publicity agent, information-service employee or
political consultant for or in the interests of such foreign
principal;
(iii) within the United States solicits, collects, disburses,
or dispenses contributions, loans, money, or other things of
value for or in the interest of such foreign principal; or
(iv) within the United States represents the interests of
such foreign principal before any agency or official of the
Government of the United States; and
(2) any person who agrees, consents, assumes or purports to act
as, or who is or holds himself out to be, whether or not pursuant
to contractual relationship, an agent of a foreign principal as
defined in clause (1) of this subsection.
(d) The term "agent of a foreign principal" does not include any
news or press service or association organized under the laws of
the United States or of any State or other place subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States, or any newspaper, magazine,
periodical, or other publication for which there is on file with
the United States Postal Service information in compliance with
section 3611 (!2) of title 39, published in the United States,
solely by virtue of any bona fide news or journalistic activities,
including the solicitation or acceptance of advertisements,
subscriptions, or other compensation therefor, so long as it is at
least 80 per centum beneficially owned by, and its officers and
directors, if any, are citizens of the United States, and such news
or press service or association, newspaper, magazine, periodical,
or other publication, is not owned, directed, supervised,
controlled, subsidized, or financed, and none of its policies are
determined by any foreign principal defined in subsection (b) of
this section, or by any agent of a foreign principal required to
register under this subchapter;
(e) The term "government of a foreign country" includes any
person or group of persons exercising sovereign de facto or de jure
political jurisdiction over any country, other than the United
States, or over any part of such country, and includes any
subdivision of any such group and any group or agency to which such
sovereign de facto or de jure authority or functions are directly
or indirectly delegated. Such term shall include any faction or
body of insurgents within a country assuming to exercise
governmental authority whether such faction or body of insurgents
has or has not been recognized by the United States;
(f) The term "foreign political party" includes any organization
or any other combination of individuals in a country other than the
United States, or any unit or branch thereof, having for an aim or
purpose, or which is engaged in any activity devoted in whole or in
part to, the establishment, administration, control, or acquisition
of administration or control, of a government of a foreign country
or a subdivision thereof, or the furtherance or influencing of the
political or public interests, policies, or relations of a
government of a foreign country or a subdivision thereof;
(g) The term "public-relations counsel" includes any person who
engages directly or indirectly in informing, advising, or in any
way representing a principal in any public relations matter
pertaining to political or public interests, policies, or relations
of such principal;
(h) The term "publicity agent" includes any person who engages
directly or indirectly in the publication or dissemination of oral,
visual, graphic, written, or pictorial information or matter of any
kind, including publication by means of advertising, books,
periodicals, newspapers, lectures, broadcasts, motion pictures, or
otherwise;
(i) The term "information-service employee" includes any person
who is engaged in furnishing, disseminating, or publishing
accounts, descriptions, information, or data with respect to the
political, industrial, employment, economic, social, cultural, or
other benefits, advantages, facts, or conditions of any country
other than the United States or of any government of a foreign
country or of a foreign political party or of a partnership,
association, corporation, organization, or other combination of
individuals organized under the laws of, or having its principal
place of business in, a foreign country;
(j) Repealed. Pub. L. 104-65, Sec. 9(1)(A), Dec. 19, 1995, 109
Stat. 699.
(k) The term "registration statement" means the registration
statement required to be filed with the Attorney General under
section 612(a) of this title, and any supplements thereto required
to be filed under section 612(b) of this title, and includes all
documents and papers required to be filed therewith or amendatory
thereof or supplemental thereto, whether attached thereto or
incorporated therein by reference;
(l) The term "American republic" includes any of the states which
were signatory to the Final Act of the Second Meeting of the
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics at Habana,
Cuba, July 30, 1940;
(m) The term "United States", when used in a geographical sense,
includes the several States, the District of Columbia, the
Territories, the Canal Zone, the insular possessions, and all other
places now or hereafter subject to the civil or military
jurisdiction of the United States;
(n) The term "prints" means newspapers and periodicals, books,
pamphlets, sheet music, visiting cards, address cards, printing
proofs, engravings, photographs, pictures, drawings, plans, maps,
patterns to be cut out, catalogs, prospectuses, advertisements, and
printed, engraved, lithographed, or autographed notices of various
kinds, and, in general, all impressions or reproductions obtained
on paper or other material assimilable to paper, on parchment or on
cardboard, by means of printing, engraving, lithography,
autography, or any other easily recognizable mechanical process,
with the exception of the copying press, stamps with movable or
immovable type, and the typewriter;
(o) The term "political activities" means any activity that the
person engaging in believes will, or that the person intends to, in
any way influence any agency or official of the Government of the
United States or any section of the public within the United States
with reference to formulating, adopting, or changing the domestic
or foreign policies of the United States or with reference to the
political or public interests, policies, or relations of a
government of a foreign country or a foreign political party;
(p) The term "political consultant" means any person who engages
in informing or advising any other person with reference to the
domestic or foreign policies of the United States or the political
or public interest, policies, or relations of a foreign country or
of a foreign political party.