Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102
§4210 Liability for Uncollected Fees
Title 22 › CHAPTER 52 — FOREIGN SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER XIV — POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS GENERALLY › § 4210
Summary
Every consul general, consul, or vice consul, or someone filling that role, who does not collect fees they should charge for official services must pay the United States the amount they failed to collect, treated the same as if they had actually taken the money. The Secretary of the Treasury can cancel that payment if a good reason is shown.
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Title 22, §4210
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Every consul general, consul, or vice consul appointed to perform the duty of any such officer, who omits to collect any fees which he is entitled to charge for any official service, shall be liable to the United States therefor, as if he had collected the same; unless, upon good cause shown therefor, the Secretary of the Treasury shall think proper to remit the same.
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Editorial Notes
Codification R.S. § 1724 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 127, § 18, 11 Stat. 58. References to “commercial agent” and “vice-commercial agent” were omitted in view of the abolition of the grade of commercial agent by act Apr. 5, 1906. Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter. Section was formerly classified to section 1190 of this title, and prior thereto to section 93 of this title.
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22 U.S.C. § 4210
Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102