2020 US Code
Title 22 - Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 52 - Foreign Service
Subchapter XIV - Powers, Duties and Liabilities of Consular Officers Generally
Sec. 4193 - Protests

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Citation 22 U.S.C. § 4193 (2020)
Section Name §4193. Protests
Section Text

Consuls and vice consuls shall have the right, in the ports or places to which they are severally appointed, of receiving the protests or declarations which captains, masters, crews, passengers, or merchants, who are citizens of the United States, may respectively choose to make there; and also such as any foreigner may choose to make before them relative to the personal interest of any citizen of the United States.

Source Credit

(R.S. §1707; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, §39, 62 Stat. 992.)


Editorial Notes EDITORIAL NOTES CODIFICATION

R.S. §1707 derived from act Apr. 14, 1792, ch. 24, §2, 1 Stat. 255.

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

Section was formerly classified to section 1173 of this title, and prior thereto to section 73 of this title.

AMENDMENTS

1948—Act June 25, 1948, repealed second sentence relating to authenticated copies of consular acts received as evidence.


STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1948 AMENDMENT

Act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, §38, 62 Stat. 992, provided that the amendment made by that act is effective Sept. 1, 1948.

Publication Title United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
Category Bills and Statutes
Collection United States Code
SuDoc Class Number Y 1.2/5:
Contained Within Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 52 - FOREIGN SERVICE
SUBCHAPTER XIV - POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS GENERALLY
Sec. 4193 - Protests
Contains section 4193
Date 2020
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 13, 2021
Positive Law No
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large References 1 Stat. 255
62 Stat. 992
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