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[CITE: 22USC284f]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
         SUBCHAPTER XIII--INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
 
Sec. 284f. Jurisdiction and venue of actions

    For the purpose of any action which may be brought within the United 
States, its possessions, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, by or 
against the Association in accordance with the articles, the Association 
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 Association 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 Association 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. 86-565, Sec. 8, June 30, 1960, 74 Stat. 294.)
