---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4859"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4859"
heading: "Protection of public entrances of United States diplomatic missions abroad"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4859"
units:
  - "Chapter 58 — Diplomatic Security"
  - "Subchapter IV — Diplomatic Security Program"
---

# §4859. Protection of public entrances of United States diplomatic missions abroad


The Secretary of State shall install and maintain a walk-through metal detector or other advanced screening system at public entrances of each United States diplomatic mission abroad.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–399, title IV, § 409, Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 866.)