§4225 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The President may create fiscal districts and set up district accounting and disbursing offices inside the Department of State to manage the accounts of all embassies, consulates, and Foreign Service posts in each area. Each district office has an accountable officer who collects fees and other official money under rules set by the Secretary of State, pays local salaries and expenses, and sends any leftover funds to the Treasury of the United States. District officers may give money to others to make payments, and both officers are financially responsible. The Secretary of State appoints these officers like clerks, and Section 3522 of title 31 and any conflicting laws are amended to match.

Title 22, §4225

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The President is authorized, whenever the necessity for such offices with a view to effecting economies in accounting procedure is apparent, to prescribe certain fiscal districts or areas and to establish within each such district as a part of the Department of State service, a district accounting and disbursing office to exercise control over the accounts and returns of all diplomatic missions and consular offices within the district in such manner as the President may direct. To each such office may be assigned the administrative accounting responsibility for receipts and expenditures of the diplomatic missions and consular offices within the district. Each district office shall be in charge of an accountable officer, to whom all fees, and other official monies, received by any diplomatic, consular, or Foreign Service officer may be accounted for, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State, all such fees and monies, or the residue thereof after the payment of salaries, allowances, and current expenses of the diplomatic missions and consular offices within the district, to be paid by the district accounting and disbursing officer into the Treasury of the United States. Such district accounting and disbursing officers accountable for public monies may entrust monies to other officers for the purpose of having them make disbursements as his agent, and the officer to whom the monies are entrusted, as well as the officer who entrusts the monies to him, shall be held pecuniarily responsible therefor to the United States. All diplomatic, consular or Foreign Service officers on duty within the area covered by such district offices may be required to render accounts of their disbursements to the officer in charge of such district office to be included in his accounts. Provided further, That the Secretary of State is authorized to appoint such district accounting and disbursing officers and their assistants in the same manner as clerks in diplomatic missions and consular offices are appointed. Section 3522 of title 31, and any other existing statutes, in so far as they conflict with this section are hereby amended.

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Editorial Notes

Codification “Section 3522 of title 31” substituted in text for “section 3622 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U.S.C., title 31, sec. 496)”, on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance. Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter. Section was formerly classified to section 813 of this title, and prior thereto to section 23k of this title.

Amendments

1972—Pub. L. 92–310 struck out provisions which required district accounting and disbursing officers and their agents to be bonded.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective July 1, 1931, see section 7 of act Feb. 23, 1931, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1931 Amendment note under section 4224 of this title.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Function of disbursement of moneys of the United States of any agency (with certain exceptions) transferred to Treasury Department by Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 4, June 10, 1933, set out as a note under section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. section 4 of Ex. Ord. No. 6166 was repealed by Pub. L. 97–258, § 5(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1086, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance. See section 3321 of Title 31.

§4225 Fiscal districts; establishment; district accounting and disbursing offices; personnel; duties

Summary

Title 22, §4225

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Editorial Notes

Amendments

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Effective Date

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

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