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§4199 Penalty for Failure to Give Bond and for Embezzlement

Title 22 › Chapter 52— FOREIGN SERVICE › Subchapter XIV— POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS GENERALLY › § 4199

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Consular officers must give the required bond before taking certain trusted jobs listed in section 4198. If an officer takes such a job without that bond, or willfully refuses to give money, property, or other items to the person legally entitled to them after being asked by that person or their agent, the officer is guilty of embezzlement and can be punished by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §4199

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Every consular officer who accepts any appointment to any office of trust mentioned in section 4198 of this title without first having complied with the provisions thereof by due execution of a bond as therein required, or who shall willfully fail or neglect to account for, pay over, and deliver any money, property, or effects so received to any person lawfully entitled thereto, after having been requested by the latter, his representative or agent so to do, shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement and shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years and by a fine of not more than $5,000.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter. Section was formerly classified to section 1179 of this title, and prior thereto to section 79 of this title.

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22 U.S.C. § 4199

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60