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[CITE: 22USC283f]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
             SUBCHAPTER XII--INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
 
Sec. 283f. Jurisdiction and venue of actions

    For the purpose of any 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 in the United States is located, and any such 
action at law or in equity 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 shall have original jurisdiction of any such 
action. When the Bank is a defendant in any such action, it may, at any 
time before the trial thereof, remove such action from a State court 
into the district court of the United States for the proper district by 
following the procedure for removal of causes otherwise provided by law.

(Pub. L. 86-147, Sec. 8, Aug. 7, 1959, 73 Stat. 300.)
