Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73
§4226 Fees and official monies from diplomatic missions, consular offices and district accounting and disbursing offices; disposition
Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 52— - FOREIGN SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XIV— - POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS GENERALLY › § 4226
Summary
Diplomatic fees can be used to pay missions' salaries and expenses under rules the President sets, or they can be sent by the State Department to the U.S. Treasury; any leftover money must be deposited. The law also changes a federal rule about deposits.
Full Legal Text
Title 22, §4226
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All fees and other official monies received by diplomatic missions or consular offices or by the district accounting and disbursing offices provided in section 4225 of this title, may be transmitted through the Department of State for deposit in the United States Treasury, or may be used in payment of salaries, allowances, and current expenses of said missions and offices, under such rules and regulations as the President may from time to time prescribe; the residue, if any, to be transmitted through the Department of State for deposit in the United States Treasury. section 3302(b) of title 31 is hereby amended.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification “section 3302(b) of title 31” substituted in text for “section 3617 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U.S.C., title 31, sec. 484)”, 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 814 of this title, and prior thereto to section 23l of this title.
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.
Reference
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Citation
22 U.S.C. § 4226
Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73