TITLE 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS

CHAPTER I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE

SUBCHAPTER H - PROTECTION AND WELFARE OF AMERICANS, THEIR PROPERTY AND ESTATES

PART 72 - DEATHS AND ESTATES

72.53 - No - fee services.

Fees are not chargeable: (a) For taking possession of, making an inventory, placing the official seal on the estate (real or personal property), or for breaking or removing such seals (72.28-72.29); (b) On funds furnished by relatives or other interested persons to cover expenses incident to the death and disposition of the remains, or for the settlement of the estate (72.39(b)); (c) On securities and other instruments not negotiated (or not negotiable) by the consular officer (72.28(g)), or on bank deposits; (d) For releasing on the spot against memorandum receipt and without occasion either for safekeeping on official accountability or for consular inventory and appraisal, to the legal representative or other authorized person in the country, of personal property taken into nominal possession for the explicit purposes of transfer of custody (72.29(a)).

[22 FR 10841, Dec. 27, 1957, as amended at 63 FR 6480, Feb. 9, 1998]