---
kind: "unit"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
key: "ch52/schXIV"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter XIV"
heading: "Powers, Duties and Liabilities of Consular Officers Generally"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/ch52-schXIV"
sections_count: 34
---

# Subchapter XIV — Powers, Duties and Liabilities of Consular Officers Generally

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse › Chapter 52 — Foreign Service

## Sections

- [§4191. General application of provisions to consular officers](/usc/22/4191.md)
- [§4192. Repealed.](/usc/22/4192.md)
- [§4193. Protests](/usc/22/4193.md)
- [§4194. Lists and returns of seamen and vessels, etc.](/usc/22/4194.md)
- [§4195. Repealed.](/usc/22/4195.md)
- [§4196. Notification of death of decedent; transmission of inventory of effects](/usc/22/4196.md)
- [§4197. Following testamentary directions; assistance to testamentary appointee](/usc/22/4197.md)
- [§4198. Bond as administrator or guardian; action on bond](/usc/22/4198.md)
- [§4199. Penalty for failure to give bond and for embezzlement](/usc/22/4199.md)
- [§4200. Certification of invoices generally](/usc/22/4200.md)
- [§4201. Fees for certification of invoices](/usc/22/4201.md)
- [§4202. Exaction of excessive fees for verification of invoices; penalty](/usc/22/4202.md)
- [§4203. Destruction of old invoices](/usc/22/4203.md)
- [§4204. Restriction as to certificate for goods from countries adjacent to United States](/usc/22/4204.md)
- [§4205. Retention of papers of American vessels until payment of demands and wages](/usc/22/4205.md)
- [§4206. Fees for services to American vessels or seamen prohibited](/usc/22/4206.md)
- [§4207. Profits from dealings with discharged seamen; prohibition](/usc/22/4207.md)
- [§4208. Valuation of foreign coins in payment of fees](/usc/22/4208.md)
- [§4209. Exaction of excessive fees generally; penalty of treble amount](/usc/22/4209.md)
- [§4210. Liability for uncollected fees](/usc/22/4210.md)
- [§4211. Returns as to fees by officers compensated by fees](/usc/22/4211.md)
- [§4212...4214. Repealed.](/usc/22/4212...4214.md)
- [§4215. Notarial acts, oaths, affirmations, affidavits, and depositions; fees](/usc/22/4215.md)
- [§4216. Posting rates of fees](/usc/22/4216.md)
- [§4217. Embezzlement of fees or of effects of American citizens](/usc/22/4217.md)
- [§4218. False certificate as to ownership of property](/usc/22/4218.md)
- [§4219. Regulation of fees by President](/usc/22/4219.md)
- [§4220. Medium for payment of fees](/usc/22/4220.md)
- [§4221. Depositions and notarial acts; perjury](/usc/22/4221.md)
- [§4222. Authentication of documents of State of Vatican City by consular officer in Rome](/usc/22/4222.md)
- [§4223. General duty to account for fees](/usc/22/4223.md)
- [§4224. Fees; accounting; stamps](/usc/22/4224.md)
- [§4225. Fiscal districts; establishment; district accounting and disbursing offices; personnel; duties](/usc/22/4225.md)
- [§4226. Fees and official monies from diplomatic missions, consular offices and district accounting and disbursing offices; disposition](/usc/22/4226.md)