§ 4206. — Fees for services to American vessels or seamen prohibited.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC4206]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 52--FOREIGN SERVICE
SUBCHAPTER XIV--POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS
GENERALLY
Sec. 4206. Fees for services to American vessels or seamen
prohibited
No fees named in the tariff of consular fees prescribed by order of
the President shall be charged or collected by consular officers for the
official services to American vessels and seamen. Consular officers
shall furnish the master of every such vessel with an itemized statement
of such services performed on account of said vessel, with the fee so
prescribed for each service, and make a detailed report to the Secretary
of the Treasury of such services and fees, under such regulations as the
Secretary of State may prescribe.
(June 26, 1884, ch. 121, Sec. 12, 23 Stat. 56.)
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980
which comprises this chapter.
Provisions of section 12 of act June 26, 1884 (this section),
permitting the Secretary of the Treasury to allow consular officers who
are paid in whole or in part by fees such compensation for their
services as they would have received but for the prohibition in this
section were superseded by section 4223 of this title and were omitted,
as was a provision of said section appropriating a sum sufficient for
the payment of the compensation herein mentioned.
Section was formerly classified to section 1186 of this title, and
prior thereto to section 89 of this title.
