§ 4225. — Fiscal districts; establishment; district accounting and disbursing offices; personnel; duties.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC4225]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 52--FOREIGN SERVICE
SUBCHAPTER XIV--POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS
GENERALLY
Sec. 4225. Fiscal districts; establishment; district accounting
and disbursing offices; personnel; duties
The President is authorized, whenever the necessity for such offices
with a view to effecting economies in accounting procedure is apparent,
to prescribe certain fiscal districts or areas and to establish within
each such district as a part of the Department of State service, a
district accounting and disbursing office to exercise control over the
accounts and returns of all diplomatic missions and consular offices
within the district in such manner as the President may direct. To each
such office may be assigned the administrative accounting responsibility
for receipts and expenditures of the diplomatic missions and consular
offices within the district. Each district office shall be in charge of
an accountable officer, to whom all fees, and other official monies,
received by any diplomatic, consular, or Foreign Service officer may be
accounted for, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by
the Secretary of State, all such fees and monies, or the residue thereof
after the payment of salaries, allowances, and current expenses of the
diplomatic missions and consular offices within the district, to be paid
by the district accounting and disbursing officer into the Treasury of
the United States. Such district accounting and disbursing officers
accountable for public monies may entrust monies to other officers for
the purpose of having them make disbursements as his agent, and the
officer to whom the monies are entrusted, as well as the officer who
entrusts the monies to him, shall be held pecuniarily responsible
therefor to the United States. All diplomatic, consular or Foreign
Service officers on duty within the area covered by such district
offices may be required to render accounts of their disbursements to the
officer in charge of such district office to be included in his
accounts.
Provided further, That the Secretary of State is authorized to
appoint such district accounting and disbursing officers and their
assistants in the same manner as clerks in diplomatic missions and
consular offices are appointed.
Section 3522 of title 31, and any other existing statutes, in so far
as they conflict with this section are hereby amended.
(May 24, 1924, ch. 182, Sec. 35, as added Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 276,
Sec. 7, 46 Stat. 1216; amended Pub. L. 92-310, title II, Sec. 227(b),
June 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 207.)
Codification
``Section 3522 of title 31'' substituted in text for ``Section 3622
of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U.S.C., title 31, sec.
496)'', on authority of Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 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 813 of this title, and
prior thereto to section 23k of this title.
Amendments
1972--Pub. L. 92-310 struck out provisions which required district
accounting and disbursing officers and their agents to be bonded.
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.
Transfer of Functions
Function of disbursement of moneys of the United States of any
agency (with certain exceptions) transferred to Treasury Department by
Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 4, June 10, 1933, set out as a note under
section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Section 4
of Ex. Ord. No. 6166 was repealed by Pub. L .97-258, Sec. 5(b), Sept.
13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1086, the first section of which enacted Title 31,
Money and Finance. See section 3321 of Title 31.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 4226 of this title.
