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[CITE: 15USC160]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                         CHAPTER 4--CHINA TRADE
 
Sec. 160. Maintenance of agent for service

    Every China Trade Act corporation shall maintain in the District of 
Columbia a person as its accredited agent, upon whom legal process may 
be served, in any suit to be brought in the United States District Court 
for the District of Columbia, and who is authorized to enter an 
appearance in its behalf. In the event of the death or inability to 
serve, or the resignation or removal, of such person, such corporation 
shall, within such time as the Secretary by regulation prescribes, 
appoint a successor. Such corporation shall file with the Secretary a 
certified copy of each power of attorney appointing a person under this 
section, and a certified copy of the written consent of each person so 
appointed.

(Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, Sec. 20(b), as added Feb. 26, 1925, ch. 345, 
Sec. 10, 43 Stat. 996; June 25, 1936, ch. 804, 49 Stat. 1921; June 25, 
1948, ch. 646, Sec. 32(a), 62 Stat. 991; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, 
Sec. 127, 63 Stat. 107.)

                          Codification

    Section comprises subsec. (b) of section 20 of act Sept. 19, 1922, 
as added by act Feb. 26, 1925. Subsec. (a) of section 20 is classified 
to section 146a of this title.

                         Change of Name

    Act June 25, 1948, eff. Sept. 1, 1948, as amended by act May 24, 
1949, substituted ``United States District Court for the District of 
Columbia'' for ``district court of the United States for the District of 
Columbia.''
    Act June 25, 1936, changed name of ``Supreme Court of the District 
of Columbia'' to ``district court of the United States for the District 
of Columbia''.
