Federal
Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
3,485 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 3968 — Local compensation plans
- § 3968a — Locally-employed staff wages
- § 3969 — Salaries of consular agents
- § 3970 — Compensation for imprisoned foreign national employees
- § 3971 — Temporary service as principal officer
- § 3972 — Special differentials
- § 3973 — Death gratuities
- § 3974 — Border equalization pay adjustment
- § 3975 — Group life insurance supplement applicable to those killed in terrorist attacks
- § 3976 — Survivors’ and dependents’ educational assistance
- § 3981 — Authority of Secretary
- § 3982 — Assignments to Foreign Service positions
- § 3983 — Assignments to non-Service and other positions
- § 3984 — Service in United States and abroad
- § 3985 — Temporary details
- § 4001 — Promotions
- § 4002 — Establishment of selection boards
- § 4003 — Recommendations and rankings
- § 4004 — Records
- § 4005 — Implementation of selection board recommendations
- § 4006 — Other bases for promoting or increasing pay
- § 4007 — Retirement for expiration of time in class
- § 4008 — Retirement based on failure to meet standard of performance
- § 4009 — Retirement benefits
- § 401 — Illegal exportation of war materials
- § 4010 — Separation for cause; suspension
- § 4010a — Reductions in force
- § 4011 — Termination of limited appointments
- § 4012 — Termination of appointments of consular agents and foreign national employees
- § 4012a — Foreign national employees separation pay
- § 4013 — Department awards
- § 402 to 405 — Repealed. Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 434, § 2 , 67 Stat. 577
- § 4021 — Institution for training
- § 4021a — Matters relating to the Foreign Service Institute
- § 4022 — Foreign language requirements
- § 4023 — Career development program
- § 4024 — Functions of Secretary
- § 4025 — Training grants
- § 4026 — Career counseling
- § 4027 — Visiting Scholars Program
- § 4028 — Training for Foreign Service officers
- § 4028a — Per diem allowance for newly hired members of the Foreign Service
- § 4029 — Increased training in multilateral diplomacy
- § 4030 — Suitability reviews for Foreign Service Institute instructors
- § 4041 — Administration
- § 4042 — Maintenance of Fund
- § 4043 — Participants
- § 4044 — Definitions
- § 4045 — Contributions to Fund
- § 4046 — Computation of annuities
- § 4047 — Payment of annuity
- § 4048 — Retirement for disability or incapacity
- § 4049 — Death in service
- § 4050 — Discontinued service retirement
- § 4051 — Voluntary retirement
- § 4052 — Mandatory retirement
- § 4053 — Reassignment and retirement of former Presidential appointees
- § 4054 — Former spouses
- § 4055 — Lump-sum payments
- § 4056 — Creditable service
- § 4057 — Extra credit for service at unhealthful posts
- § 4058 — Estimate of appropriations needed
- § 4059 — Investment of Fund
- § 406 — Interference with foreign trade
- § 4060 — Assignment and attachment of moneys
- § 4061 — Payments for future benefits
- § 4062 — Unfunded liability obligations
- § 4063 — Annuity adjustment for recall service
- § 4064 — Reemployment
- § 4065 — Voluntary contribution account
- § 4066 — Cost-of-living adjustment of annuities
- § 4067 — Compatibility between retirement systems
- § 4068 — Remarriage
- § 4069 — Thrift Savings Fund participation
- § 4069–1 — Qualified former wives and husbands
- § 4069a — Retirement benefits for certain former spouses
- § 4069a–1 — Retirement benefits for certain former spouses
- § 4069b — Survivor benefits for certain former spouses
- § 4069b–1 — Survivor benefits for certain former spouses
- § 4069c — Health benefits for certain former spouses
- § 4069c–1 — Health benefits for certain former spouses
- § 407 — Repealed. Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 434, § 2 , 67 Stat. 577
- § 4071 — Establishment; application of Federal Employees’ Retirement System to Foreign Service Pension System participants
- § 4071a — Definitions
- § 4071b — Participants
- § 4071c — Creditable service
- § 4071d — Entitlement to annuity
- § 4071e — Deductions and withholdings from pay
- § 4071f — Government contributions
- § 4071g — Cost-of-living adjustments
- § 4071h — General and administrative provisions
- § 4071i — Transition provisions
- § 4071j — Former spouses
- § 4071k — Spousal agreements
- § 408 — Use of land and naval forces to prevent exportation
- § 4081 — Travel and related expenses
- § 4081a — Exception for Government-financed air transportation; reducing hardship for transportation of domestic animals
- § 4081b — Presence of chiefs of mission at diplomatic posts
- § 4082 — Loan of household effects
- § 4083 — Required leave
- § 4083a — Rest and recuperation leave
- § 4083b — Overseas operations leave
- § 4084 — Health care program
- § 4085 — Entertainment and representation expenses
- § 4086 — Entitlement to vote in a State in a Federal election; preconditions; applicability
- § 4087 — Termination of residential or motor vehicle leases and telephone service contracts
- § 4088 — Education allowance
- § 4089 — Portability of professional licenses
- § 408a — “United States” defined
- § 409, 410 — Repealed. June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 21 , 62 Stat. 862 , eff. Sept. 1, 1948
- § 41 — Transferred
- § 4101 — Congressional findings and policy
- § 4102 — Definitions
- § 4103 — Application
- § 4104 — Employee rights
- § 4105 — Management rights
- § 4106 — Foreign Service Labor Relations Board
- § 4107 — Functions of Foreign Service Labor Relations Board
- § 4108 — Functions of General Counsel
- § 4109 — Judicial review and enforcement
- § 411 to 419 — Omitted
- § 4110 — Foreign Service Impasse Disputes Panel
- § 4111 — Exclusive recognition
- § 4112 — Employees represented
- § 4113 — Representation rights and duties
- § 4114 — Resolution of implementation disputes
- § 4115 — Unfair labor practices
- § 4116 — Prevention of unfair labor practices
- § 4117 — Standards of conduct for labor organizations
- § 4118 — Administrative provisions
- § 4131 — Definitions and applicability
- § 4132 — Grievances concerning former members or their survivors
- § 4133 — Freedom of action
- § 4134 — Time limitations
- § 4135 — Foreign Service Grievance Board
- § 4136 — Foreign Service Grievance Board procedures
- § 4137 — Foreign Service Grievance Board decisions
- § 4138 — Access to records
- § 4139 — Relationship to other remedies
- § 4140 — Judicial review
- § 4141 — Statement of policy; objectives
- § 4141a — Foreign Service Internship Program
- § 4141b — Report to Congress
- § 4141c — Authorization of appropriations
- § 4151 — Pay and benefits pending conversion
- § 4152 — Conversion to Foreign Service Schedule
- § 4153 — Conversion to Senior Foreign Service
- § 4154 — Conversion from Foreign Service
- § 4155 — Conversion of certain positions in Department of Agriculture
- § 4156 — Preservation of status and benefits
- § 4157 — Regulations
- § 4158 — Authority of other agencies
- § 4159 — Survivor benefits for certain former spouses
- § 4171 — Model foreign language competence posts
- § 4172 — Savings provisions
- § 4173 — Congressional oversight of implementation
- § 4191 — General application of provisions to consular officers
- § 4192 — Repealed. Pub. L. 101–246, title I, § 123 , Feb. 16, 1990 , 104 Stat. 27
- § 4193 — Protests
- § 4194 — Lists and returns of seamen and vessels, etc.
- § 4195 — Repealed. Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(7) [div. A, title II, § 234(a)] , Nov. 29, 1999 , 113 Stat. 1536 , 1501A–426
- § 4196 — Notification of death of decedent; transmission of inventory of effects
- § 4197 — Following testamentary directions; assistance to testamentary appointee
- § 4198 — Bond as administrator or guardian; action on bond
- § 4199 — Penalty for failure to give bond and for embezzlement
- § 420 — Repealed. July 25, 1947, ch. 327, § 1 , 61 Stat. 449
- § 4200 — Certification of invoices generally
- § 4201 — Fees for certification of invoices
- § 4202 — Exaction of excessive fees for verification of invoices; penalty
- § 4203 — Destruction of old invoices
- § 4204 — Restriction as to certificate for goods from countries adjacent to United States
- § 4205 — Retention of papers of American vessels until payment of demands and wages
- § 4206 — Fees for services to American vessels or seamen prohibited
- § 4207 — Profits from dealings with discharged seamen; prohibition
- § 4208 — Valuation of foreign coins in payment of fees
- § 4209 — Exaction of excessive fees generally; penalty of treble amount
- § 421 — Contracts by Government agencies for defense articles, services, etc., for foreign governments in interests of United States
- § 4210 — Liability for uncollected fees
- § 4211 — Returns as to fees by officers compensated by fees
- § 4212 to 4214 — Repealed. Pub. L. 105–277, div. G , subdiv. B, title XXII, § 2223, Oct. 21, 1998 , 112 Stat. 2681–819
- § 4215 — Notarial acts, oaths, affirmations, affidavits, and depositions; fees
- § 4216 — Posting rates of fees
- § 4217 — Embezzlement of fees or of effects of American citizens
- § 4218 — False certificate as to ownership of property
- § 4219 — Regulation of fees by President
- § 422 — Retention for United States of defense articles procured for foreign governments
- § 4220 — Medium for payment of fees
- § 4221 — Depositions and notarial acts; perjury
- § 4222 — Authentication of documents of State of Vatican City by consular officer in Rome
- § 4223 — General duty to account for fees
- § 4224 — Fees; accounting; stamps
- § 4225 — Fiscal districts; establishment; district accounting and disbursing offices; personnel; duties
- § 4226 — Fees and official monies from diplomatic missions, consular offices and district accounting and disbursing offices; disposition
- § 423 — Omitted
- § 4301 — Congressional declaration of findings and policy
- § 4302 — Definitions
- § 4303 — Authorities of Secretary of State
- § 4304 — Provision of benefits
- § 4304a — Enforcement of compliance with liability insurance requirements
- § 4304b — Crimes committed by diplomats