[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR13.3]

[Page 85]
 
                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 13_PERSONNEL--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 13.3  Liability for neglect of duty or for malfeasance generally; 
action on bond; penalty.

    Whenever any consular officer willfully neglects or omits to perform 
seasonably any duty imposed upon him or her by law, or by any order or 
instruction made or given in pursuance of law, or is guilty of any 
willful malfeasance or abuse of power, or of any corrupt conduct in his 
or her office, he or she shall be liable to all persons injured by any 
such neglect, or omission, malfeasance, abuse, or corrupt conduct, for 
all damages, occasioned thereby; and for all such damages, he or she and 
his or her sureties upon his or her official bond shall be responsible 
thereon to the full amount of the penalty thereof to be sued in the name 
of the United States for the use of the person injured. Such suit, 
however, shall in no case prejudice, but shall be held in entire 
subordination to the interests, claims, and demands of the United 
States, as against any officer, under such bond, for every willful act 
of malfeasance or corrupt conduct in his or her office. If any consul 
neglects or omits to perform seasonably the duties imposed upon him or 
her by the laws regulating the shipment and discharge of seamen, or is 
guilty of any malversation or abuse of power, he or she shall be liable 
to any injured person for all damage occasioned thereby; and for all 
malversation and corrupt conduct in office, he or she shall be 
punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years and not less 
than one, and by a fine of not more than $10,000 and not less than 
$1,000 (22 U.S.C. 1199).

(22 U.S.C. 2658 and 3926)

[22 FR 10789, Dec. 27, 1957, as amended at 49 FR 16989, Apr. 23, 1984]