22 U.S.C. § 4223
All fees, official or unofficial, received by any officer in the Consular Service for services rendered in connection with the duties of his office or as a consular officer, including fees for notarial services, and fees for taking depositions, executing commissions or letters rogatory, settling estates, receiving or paying out moneys, caring for or disposing of property, shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States, and the sole and only compensation of such officers shall be by salaries fixed by law. And vice-consuls, in addition to such compensation as they may be entitled to receive as consuls or clerks, may receive such portion of the salaries of the consul-general or consuls for whom they act as shall be provided by regulation.
22 U.S.C. § 4223
EDITORIAL NOTES
CODIFICATIONCompensation provisions pertaining to the positions of vice-consuls-general, deputy consuls-general, and deputy consuls were omitted from this section on the authority of act Feb. 5, 1915.Section was not enacted as a part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter. Section was formerly classified to section 99 of this title.
AMENDMENTS1946-Act Aug. 13, 1946, struck out "but this shall not apply to consular agents, who shall be paid one-half of the fees received in their offices, up to a maximum sum of one thousand dollars in any one year, the other half being accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States."
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1946 AMENDMENT Amendment by act Aug. 13, 1946, effective three months after Aug. 13, 1946.
REPEALSAct Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 957, title XI, §1131(26), 60 Stat. 1037, cited as a credit to this section, was repealed by Pub. L. 96-465, title II, §2205(1), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2159.