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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc.

§ 285f. Jurisdiction and venue of actions

Statutory text

For the purpose 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 Bank in accordance with the agreement, the Bank shall be deemed to be an inhabitant of the Federal judicial district in which its principal office or agency in the United States is located, and any such action to which the Bank 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 Bank is a defendant in any action in a State court, it may, at any time before the trial thereof, remove such action into the district court of the United States for the proper district by following the procedure for removal of causes otherwise provided by law.

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. Asian Development Bank Act

    Pub. L. 89–369 § 8 · 80 Stat. 71

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 285f

    (Pub. L. 89–369, § 8, Mar. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 72.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 89–369, § 8, Mar. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 72.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 8. jurisdiction and venue of actions For the purpose 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 Bank in accordance with the agreement, the Bank shall be deemed to be an inhabitant of the Federal judicial district in which its principal office or agency in the United States is located, and any such action to which the Bank 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 65 Stat. 725. in title 28, section 460, United States Code, shall have original jurisdiction of any such action. When the Bank is a defendant in any action in a State court, it may, at any time before the trial thereof, remove such action into the district court of the United States for the proper district by following the procedure for removal of causes otherwise provided by law.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 89–369, § 8, , 80 Stat. 72.)

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