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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc.

§ 283gg. Jurisdiction of United States courts

Statutory text

For the purposes of any civil action which may be brought within the United States, its territories or possessions, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, by or against the Corporation in accordance with the agreement, the Corporation shall be deemed to be an inhabitant of the Federal judicial district in which its principal office within the United States or its agent appointed for the purpose of accepting service or notice of service is located, and any such action to which the Corporation shall be a party shall be deemed to arise under the laws of the United States, and the district courts of the United States, including the courts enumerated in section 460 of title 28, shall have original jurisdiction of any such action. When the Corporation is a defendant in any action in a State court, it may at any time before the trial thereof remove the action into the appropriate district court of the United States by following the procedure for removal provided in section 1446 of title 28.

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. Pub. L. 98–473 title I § 101(1)(tI) · 98 Stat. 1837

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 283gg

    (Pub. L. 98–473, title I, § 101(1) [title I], Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 1884, 1885.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 98–473, title I, § 101(1) [title I], Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 1884, 1885.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) On Outer Continental Shelf protraction diagram NJ 19–1; blocks 36, 37, 38, 42–44, 80–82, 86–88, 124, 125, 130–132, 168, 169, 174–176, 212, 213.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is based on section 208 of title II of S. 2416, Ninety-eighth Congress, as introduced , and enacted into law by Pub. L. 98–473.

Credits

(Pub. L. 98–473, title I, § 101(1) [title I], , 98 Stat. 1884, 1885.)

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