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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 4 — Passports

§ 214a. Fees erroneously charged and paid; refund

Statutory text

Whenever a fee is erroneously charged and paid for the issue of a passport to a person who is exempted from the payment of such a fee by section 214 of this title, the Department of State is authorized to refund to the person who paid such fee the amount thereof, and the money for that purpose is authorized to be appropriated.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 69–772 § 3 · 44 Stat. 887

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 214a

    (July 3, 1926, ch. 772, § 3, 44 Stat. 887.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 3, 1926, ch. 772, § 3, 44 Stat. 887.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. That whenever a fee is erroneously charged and paid for Refund of fee erroneously paid by exempted person. Vol. 41, p. 750. the issue of a passport to a person who is exempted from the payment of such a fee by section 1 of “An Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921,” approved June 4, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes, page 750), the Department of State is hereby authorized to refund to the Authorization for. person who paid such fee the amount thereof, and the money for that purpose is hereby authorized to be appropriated.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Certain Appropriation Accounts Abolished

Effective , enumerated appropriation accounts appearing on the books of the Government were abolished and in lieu thereof there was established an account to be designated “Refund of Moneys Erroneously Received and Covered.” See section 1322 of Title 31, Money and Finance.

Credits

(July 3, 1926, ch. 772, § 3, 44 Stat. 887.)

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