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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 52 — Foreign Service

§ 4199. Penalty for failure to give bond and for embezzlement

Statutory text

Every consular officer who accepts any appointment to any office of trust mentioned in section 4198 of this title without first having complied with the provisions thereof by due execution of a bond as therein required, or who shall willfully fail or neglect to account for, pay over, and deliver any money, property, or effects so received to any person lawfully entitled thereto, after having been requested by the latter, his representative or agent so to do, shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement and shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years and by a fine of not more than $5,000.

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. 57–1331 § 2 · 32 Stat. 546

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 4199

    (June 30, 1902, ch. 1331, § 2, 32 Stat. 547.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 30, 1902, ch. 1331, § 2, 32 Stat. 547.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That every consular officer who accepts any appointment to Breach of trust, embezzlement. any office of trust mentioned in the preceding section without first having complied with the provisions thereof by due execution of a bond as therein required, or who shall willfully fail or neglect to account for, pay over, and deliver any money, property, or effects so received to any person lawfully entitled thereto, after having been requested by the latter, his representative or agent so to do, shall be Penalty. deemed guilty of embezzlement and shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years and by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.

Section was formerly classified to section 1179 of this title, and prior thereto to section 79 of this title.

Credits

(June 30, 1902, ch. 1331, § 2, 32 Stat. 547.)

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