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[CITE: 28USC2416]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART VI--PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS
 
              CHAPTER 161--UNITED STATES AS PARTY GENERALLY
 
Sec. 2416. Time for commencing actions brought by the United 
        States--Exclusions
        
    For the purpose of computing the limitations periods established in 
section 2415, there shall be excluded all periods during which--
        (a) the defendant or the res is outside the United States, its 
    territories and possessions, the District of Columbia, or the 
    Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; or
        (b) the defendant is exempt from legal process because of 
    infancy, mental incompetence, diplomatic immunity, or for any other 
    reason; or
        (c) facts material to the right of action are not known and 
    reasonably could not be known by an official of the United States 
    charged with the responsibility to act in the circumstances; or
        (d) the United States is in a state of war declared pursuant to 
    article I, section 8, of the Constitution of the United States.

(Added Pub. L. 89-505, Sec. 1, July 18, 1966, 80 Stat. 305.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2415 of this title; title 30 
section 1724.
