22 U.S.C. § 4196 — Notification of death of decedent; transmission of inventory of effects
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This section requires a consular officer to notify the proper people when a decedent dies and to transmit an inventory of the decedent’s effects. The officer must follow the procedures stated in the section.
For the information of the representative of the deceased, the consular officer, or, if no consular officer is present, a diplomatic officer, in the settlement of his estate must immediately notify his death in one of the gazettes published in the consular district, and also to the Secretary of State, that the same may be notified in the State to which the deceased belonged; and he must, as soon as may be, transmit to the Secretary of State an inventory of the effects of the deceased taken as before directed.
For the information of the representative of the deceased, the consular officer, or, if no consular officer is present, a diplomatic officer, in the settlement of his estate shall immediately notify his death in one of the gazettes published in the consular district, and also to the Secretary of State, that the same may be notified in the State to which the deceased belonged; and he shall, as soon as may be, transmit to the Secretary of State an inventory of the effects of the deceased taken as before directed.
Source credit: (R.S. § 1710; July 12, 1940, ch. 618, 54 Stat. 760.)
- 1940Enacted · Act of July 12, 1940, ch. 618 · 54 Stat. 760
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