22 U.S.C. § 4226 — Fees and official monies from diplomatic

Page 1567 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- ceipts and expenditures of the diplomatic mis- sions and consular offices within the district. Each district office shall be in charge of an ac- countable officer, to whom all fees, and other of- ficial monies, received by any diplomatic, con- sular, or Foreign Service officer may be ac- counted 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 ac- countable 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 in- cluded 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 mis- sions and consular offices are appointed. Section 3522 of title 31, and any other existing statutes, in so far as they conflict with this sec- tion are hereby amended. (May 24, 1924, ch. 182, § 35, as added Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 276, § 7, 46 Stat. 1216; amended Pub. L. 92–310, title II, § 227(b), June 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 207.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION ‘‘Section 3522 of title 31’’ substituted in text for ‘‘Sec- tion 3622 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U.S.C., title 31, sec. 496)’’, on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first sec- tion of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance. Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Serv- ice 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 re- quired district accounting and disbursing officers and their agents to be bonded. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries 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. Executive Documents TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Function of disbursement of moneys of the United States of any agency (with certain exceptions) trans- ferred to Treasury Department by Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 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, § 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. § 4226. Fees and official monies from diplomatic missions, consular offices and district ac- counting and disbursing offices; disposition All fees and other official monies received by diplomatic missions or consular offices or by the district accounting and disbursing offices pro- vided in section 4225 of this title, may be trans- mitted through the Department of State for de- posit 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 Presi- dent may from time to time prescribe; the res- idue, if any, to be transmitted through the De- partment of State for deposit in the United States Treasury. Section 3302(b) of title 31 is hereby amended. (May 24, 1924, ch. 182, § 36, as added Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 276, § 7, 46 Stat. 1216.) Page 1568 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 4301 Editorial Notes CODIFICATION ‘‘Section 3302(b) of title 31’’ substituted in text for ‘‘Section 3617 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U.S.C., title 31, sec. 484)’’, on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first sec- tion of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance. Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Serv- ice Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter. Section was formerly classified to section 814 of this title, and prior thereto to section 23l of this title. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries 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. CHAPTER 53—AUTHORITIES RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF FOREIGN MISSIONS Sec. 4301. Congressional declaration of findings and pol- icy. 4302. Definitions. 4303. Authorities of Secretary of State. 4304. Provision of benefits. 4304a. Enforcement of compliance with liability in- surance requirements. 4304b. Crimes committed by diplomats. 4305. Property of foreign missions. 4306. Location of foreign missions in the District of Columbia. 4307. Preemption. 4308. General provisions. 4309. Application to public international organiza- tions and official missions to such organiza- tions. 4309a. United States responsibilities for employees of the United Nations. 4310. Privileges and immunities. 4311. Enforcement. 4312. Presidential guidelines. 4313. Severability. 4314. Extraordinary protective services. 4315. Use of foreign mission in manner incompat- ible with its status as foreign mission. 4316. Application of travel restrictions to per- sonnel of certain countries and organiza- tions. § 4301. Congressional declaration of findings and policy (a) Findings The Congress finds that the operation in the United States of foreign missions and public international organizations and the official mis- sions to such organizations, including the per- missible scope of their activities and the loca- tion and size of their facilities, is a proper sub- ject for the exercise of Federal jurisdiction. (b) Policy The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States to support the secure and effi- cient operation of United States missions abroad, to facilitate the secure and efficient op- eration in the United States of foreign missions and public international organizations and the official missions to such organizations, and to assist in obtaining appropriate benefits, privi- leges, and immunities for those missions and or- ganizations and to require their observance of corresponding obligations in accordance with international law. (c) Treatment of foreign missions in United States The treatment to be accorded to a foreign mis- sion in the United States shall be determined by the Secretary after due consideration of the ben- efits, privileges, and immunities provided to missions of the United States in the country or territory represented by that foreign mission, as well as matters relating to the protection of the interests of the United States. (Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title II, § 201, as added Pub. L. 97–241, title II, § 202(b), Aug. 24, 1982, 96 Stat. 283; amended Pub. L. 99–93, title I, § 127(a), Aug. 16, 1985, 99 Stat. 418.) Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 1985—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 99–93 inserted ‘‘, as well as matters relating to the protection of the interests of the United States’’. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE Pub. L. 97–241, title II, § 204, Aug. 24, 1982, 96 Stat. 291, provided that: ‘‘The amendments made by this title [see Short Title note below] shall take effect on Octo- ber 1, 1982.’’ SHORT TITLE OF 1983 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 98–164, title VI, § 601, Nov. 22, 1983, 97 Stat. 1042, provided that: ‘‘This title [enacting section 4304a of this title, amending sections 254e and 4303 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 4303 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Foreign Missions Amendments Act of 1983’.’’ SHORT TITLE Pub. L. 97–241, title II, § 201, Aug. 24, 1982, 96 Stat. 282, provided that: ‘‘This title [enacting this chapter, amending sections 254a, 254b, 254c, 2662, and 2684 of this title and section 1364 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, and enacting provisions set out as a note under this section] may be cited as the ‘Foreign Mis- sions Act’.’’ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION Pub. L. 100–204, title I, § 133, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1344, provided that: ‘‘(a) FINDING.—Congress finds that the United States Department of State, on September 15, 1987, declared itself to be a temporary foreign diplomatic mission for the purpose of denying free speech to American citizens who planned to protest the tyranny of the Soviet re- gime. ‘‘(b) PROHIBITION.—It is not in the national security interest of the United States for the Department of State to declare, and it shall not declare, itself to be a foreign diplomatic mission.’’ UNITED STATES-SOVIET RECIPROCITY IN MATTERS RELATING TO EMBASSIES Pub. L. 101–246, title I, § 134, Feb. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 33, authorized Secretary of State to allow Soviet mission to United States to occupy, on a reciprocal basis, a con- sulate facility in United States, provided that United States mission in Kiev would be able to occupy an in- terim facility intended for conduct of unclassified ac- tivities, and required Secretary of State to submit to Congress a long-term plan for acquiring secure perma- nent facilities for United States mission in Kiev, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–199, title V, § 502(c)(1), Dec. 17, 1993, 107 Stat. 2326.