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  January 2, 2001 and January 28, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC4202]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                       CHAPTER 52--FOREIGN SERVICE
 
  SUBCHAPTER XIV--POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS 
                                GENERALLY
 
Sec. 4202. Exaction of excessive fees for verification of 
        invoices; penalty
        
    The fee provided by law for the verification of invoices by consular 
officers shall, when paid, be held to be a full payment for furnishing 
blank forms of declaration to be signed by the shipper, and for making, 
signing, and sealing the certificate of the consular officer thereto; 
and any consular officer who, under pretense of charging for blank 
forms, advice, or clerical services in the preparation of such 
declaration or certificate, charges or receives any fee greater in 
amount than that provided by law for the verification of invoices, or 
who demands or receives for any official services, or who allows any 
clerk or subordinate to receive for any such service, any fee or reward 
other than the fee provided by law for such service, shall be punishable 
by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more 
than $2,000, and shall be removed from his office.

(R.S. Sec. 1716.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 1716 derived from act Mar. 3, 1869, ch. 125, Sec. 3, 15 
Stat. 321.
    Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
which comprises this chapter.
    Section was formerly classified to section 1182 of this title, and 
prior thereto to section 85 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 4191 of this title.
