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[CITE: 22USC4210]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                       CHAPTER 52--FOREIGN SERVICE
 
  SUBCHAPTER XIV--POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS 
                                GENERALLY
 
Sec. 4210. Liability for uncollected fees

    Every consul general, consul, or vice consul appointed to perform 
the duty of any such officer, who omits to collect any fees which he is 
entitled to charge for any official service, shall be liable to the 
United States therefor, as if he had collected the same; unless, upon 
good cause shown therefor, the Secretary of the Treasury shall think 
proper to remit the same.

(R.S. Sec. 1724; Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, Sec. 3, 34 Stat. 100.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 1724 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 127, Sec. 18, 11 
Stat. 58.
    References to ``commercial agent'' and ``vice-commercial agent'' 
were 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 1190 of this title, and 
prior thereto to section 93 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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