§ 4207. — Profits from dealings with discharged seamen; prohibition.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC4207]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 52--FOREIGN SERVICE
SUBCHAPTER XIV--POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS
GENERALLY
Sec. 4207. Profits from dealings with discharged seamen;
prohibition
No consular officer, nor any person under any consular officer shall
make any charge or receive, directly or indirectly, any compensation, by
way of commission or otherwise, for receiving or disbursing the wages or
extra wages to which any seaman or mariner is entitled who is discharged
in any foreign country, or for any money advanced to any such seaman or
mariner who seeks relief from any consulate; nor shall any consular
officer, or any person under any consular officer, be interested,
directly or indirectly, in any profit derived from clothing, boarding or
otherwise supplying or sending home any such seaman or mariner. Such
prohibition as to profit, however, shall not be construed to relieve or
prevent any such officer who is the owner of or otherwise interested in
any vessel of the United States from transporting in such vessel any
such seaman or mariner, or from receiving or being interested in such
reasonable allowance as may be made for such transportation by law.
(R.S. Sec. 1719; Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, Sec. 3, 34 Stat. 100.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 1719 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 127, Sec. 20, 11
Stat. 59.
Reference to ``commercial agency'' was 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 1187 of this title, and
prior thereto to section 90 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 4191 of this title.
