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[CITE: 22USC285f]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
                 SUBCHAPTER XIV--ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
 
Sec. 285f. 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 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.

(Pub. L. 89-369, Sec. 8, Mar. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 72.)
