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22 U.S.C. § 4225 — Fiscal districts; establishment; district accounting and disbursing offices; personnel; duties
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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
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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.
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**(a)** Except as provided in this section or another law, only officers and employees of the Department of the Treasury designated by the Secretary of the Treasury as disbursing officials may disburse public money available for expenditure by an executive agency.
**(b)** For economy and efficiency, the Secretary may delegate the authority to disburse public money to officers and employees of other executive agencies.
**(c)** The head of each of the following executive agencies shall designate personnel of the agency as disbursing officials to disburse public money available for expenditure by the agency:
(1) United States Marshal’s Office.
(2) The Department of Defense.
(3) The Department of Homeland Security.11 So in original. The period probably should not appear. (with respect to public money available for expenditure by the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy).
**(d)** On request of the Secretary and with the approval of the head of an executive agency referred to in subsection (c) of this section, facilities of the agency may be used to assist in disbursing public money available for expenditure by another executive agency.
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**(a)** The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States—
(1) to promote the better execution of the laws, the more effective management of the executive branch and of its agencies and functions, and the expeditious administration of the public business;
(2) to reduce expenditures and promote economy to the fullest extent consistent with the efficient operation of the Government;
(3) to increase the efficiency of the operations of the Government to the fullest extent practicable;
(4) to group, coordinate, and consolidate agencies and functions of the Government, as nearly as may be, according to major purposes;
(5) to reduce the number of agencies by consolidating those having similar functions under a single head, and to abolish such agencies or functions thereof as may not be necessary for the efficient conduct of the Government; and
(6) to eliminate overlapping and duplication of effort.
**(b)** Congress declares that the public interest demands the carrying out of the purposes of subsection (a) of this section and that the purposes may be accomplished in great measure by proceeding under this chapter, and can be accomplished more speedily thereby than by the enactment of specific legislation.
**(c)** It is the intent of Congress that the President should provide appropriate means for broad citizen advice and participation in restructuring and reorganizing the executive branch.
**(d)** The President shall from time to time examine the organization of all agencies and shall determine what changes in such organization are necessary to carry out any policy set forth in subsection (a) of this section.
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The provisions of sections 1196 11 See References in Text note below. and 4223 of this title, relative to official fees and the method of accounting therefor shall apply to diplomatic officers below the grade of minister and to consular officers.
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**(a)**
(1) Unless the Comptroller General decides the public interest requires that an account be made more frequently, each disbursing official shall make a quarterly account. An official or agent of the United States Government receiving public money not authorized to be kept as pay of the official or agent shall make a monthly account of the money.
(2) An official or agent of the Government receiving public money shall make an account of public money received by the official or agent according to the appropriation from which the money was advanced.
**(b)**
(1) A monthly account shall be submitted to the appropriate official in the District of Columbia by the 10th day after the end of the month covered by the account. The official shall submit the account to the Comptroller General by the 20th day after receiving the account.
(2) An account (except a monthly account) shall be submitted to the appropriate official in the District of Columbia by the 20th day after the end of the period covered by the account. The official shall submit the account to the Comptroller General by the 60th day after receiving the account.
(3) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, an account of the armed forces shall be submitted to the Comptroller General by the 60th day after the account is received. However, during a war or national emergency and for 18 months after the war or emergency ends, an account shall be submitted to the Comptroller General by the 90th day after the account is received.
(4) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, an account of a disbursing official of the Department of Justice shall be submitted to the Comptroller General by the 80th day after the account is received.
**(c)** An official shall give evidence of compli
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section 23k, act May 24, 1924, ch. 182, § 35, as added Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 276, § 7, 46 Stat. 1216, which related to establishment and maintenance of fiscal accounting and disbursing offices, was transferred to [section 4225 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section4225&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 23l, act May 24, 1924, ch. 182, § 36, as added Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 276, § 7, 46 Stat. 1216, which related to fees and official monies from diplomatic missions, was transferred to [section 4226 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section4226&num=0&edition=prelim).
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All fees and other official monies received by diplomatic missions or consular offices or by the district accounting and disbursing offices provided in [section 4225 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section4225&num=0&edition=prelim), may be transmitted through the Department of State for deposit in the United States Treasury, or may be used in payment of salaries, allowances, and current expenses of said missions and offices, under such rules and regulations as the President may from time to time prescribe; the residue, if any, to be transmitted through the Department of State for deposit in the United States Treasury. [Section 3302(b) of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section3302/b&num=0&edition=prelim) is hereby amended.
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section 812, acts May 24, 1924, ch. 182, § 18, formerly § 11, 43 Stat. 142; renumbered § 18 and amended Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 276, § 7, 46 Stat. 1209, which related to fees, accounting, and stamps, was transferred to [section 4224 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section4224&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 813, act May 24, 1924, ch. 182, § 35, as added Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 276, § 7, 46 Stat. 1216 and amended, which related to establishment of fiscal districts and district accounting and disbursing offices, was transferred to [section 4225 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section4225&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 814, act May 24, 1924, ch. 182, § 36, as added Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 276, § 7, 46 Stat. 1216, which related to disposition of fees and official monies from diplomatic missions, consular offices and district accounting and disbursing offices, was transferred to [section 4226 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section4226&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 4226
matic officers below the grade of minister and to
consular officers.
(May 24, 1924, ch. 182, § 18, formerly § 11, 43 Stat.
142, renumbered and amended Feb. 23, 1931, ch.
276, § 7, 46 Stat. 1209.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
Section 1196 of this title, referred to in text, was re-
pealed by act June 28, 1955, ch. 196, 69 Stat. 187.
CODIFICATION
Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Serv-
ice Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.
Section was formerly classified to section 812 of this
title, and prior thereto to section 13 of this title.
AMENDMENTS
1931—Act Feb. 23, 1931, substituted ‘‘shall apply to
diplomatic officers below the grade of minister and to
consular officers’’ for ‘‘shall include both branches of
the Foreign Service’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1931 AMENDMENT
Act May 24, 1924, ch. 182, § 37, as added act Feb. 23,
1931, ch. 276, § 7, 46 Stat. 1217, provided: ‘‘That this Act
[see Tables for classification] shall take effect on July
1, 1931.’’
§ 4225. Fiscal districts; establishment; district ac-
counting and disbursing offices; personnel;
duties
The President is authorized, whenever the ne-
cessity 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 ac-
counting and disbursing office to exercise con-
trol over the accounts and returns of all diplo-
matic missions and consular offices within the
district in such manner as the President may di-
rect. To each such office may be assigned the ad-
ministrative accounting responsibility for re-
ceipt
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