---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4203"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4203"
heading: "Destruction of old invoices"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4203"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter XIV — Powers, Duties and Liabilities of Consular Officers Generally"
---

# §4203. Destruction of old invoices


The Secretary of State is authorized to cause, from time to time, the destruction of invoices that have been filed in the consular offices for a period of more than five years.


## Source credit

(Feb. 24, 1903, ch. 753, 32 Stat. 854.)

## Notes

### 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 1183 of this title, and prior thereto to section 86 of this title.