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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc.

§ 283a. Appointment of officers; term of office; salary

Statutory text

(a)

Governor and alternate governor

The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a governor of the Bank and an alternate for the governor. The term of office for the governor and the alternate governor shall be five years, but each shall remain in office until a successor has been appointed.

(b)

Executive director and alternate executive director

The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint an executive director of the Bank and an alternate Executive Director. Except as provided for in article XV, section 3, of the agreement, the term of office for the executive director shall be three years, but he shall remain in office until a successor has been appointed.

(c)

Compensation

No person shall be entitled to receive any salary or other compensation from the United States for services as a governor, alternate governor, or executive director.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Inter-American Development Bank Act

    Pub. L. 86–147 § 3 · 73 Stat. 299

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 283a

    Pub. L. 86–147, § 3, Aug. 7, 1959, 73 Stat. 299

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 86–147, § 3, Aug. 7, 1959, 73 Stat. 299

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. governor, alternate governor, and executive director (a) The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a Governor of the Bank and an alternate for the Governor. The term of office for the governor and the alternate Governor shall be five years, but each shall remain in office until a successor has been appointed. (b) The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint an Executive Director of the Bank. Except as provided for in article XV, section 3, of the agreement, the term of office for the Executive Director shall be three years, but he shall remain in office until a successor has been appointed. (c) No person shall be entitled to receive any salary or other compensation from the United States for services as a Governor, Alternate Governor, or Executive Director.

  2. Pub. L. 91–599 · 84 Stat. 1620

    Changed · 22 U.S.C. § 283a(b)

    Pub. L. 91–599 authorized appointment of an alternate Executive Director

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 91–599 authorized appointment of an alternate Executive Director.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1970—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 91–599 authorized appointment of an alternate Executive Director.

Credits

1959–1970 · 2 acts
  1. 1959Pub. L. 86–147, § 3, , 73 Stat. 299
  2. 1970Pub. L. 91–599, ch. 2, § 21(b), , 84 Stat. 1658.
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(Pub. L. 86–147, § 3, , 73 Stat. 299; Pub. L. 91–599, ch. 2, § 21(b), , 84 Stat. 1658.)

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