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[CITE: 9USC5]

 
                          TITLE 9--ARBITRATION
 
                      CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 5. Appointment of arbitrators or umpire

    If in the agreement provision be made for a method of naming or 
appointing an arbitrator or arbitrators or an umpire, such method shall 
be followed; but if no method be provided therein, or if a method be 
provided and any party thereto shall fail to avail himself of such 
method, or if for any other reason there shall be a lapse in the naming 
of an arbitrator or arbitrators or umpire, or in filling a vacancy, then 
upon the application of either party to the controversy the court shall 
designate and appoint an arbitrator or arbitrators or umpire, as the 
case may require, who shall act under the said agreement with the same 
force and effect as if he or they had been specifically named therein; 
and unless otherwise provided in the agreement the arbitration shall be 
by a single arbitrator.

(July 30, 1947, ch. 392, 61 Stat. 671.)


                               Derivation

    Act Feb. 12, 1925, ch. 213, Sec. 5, 43 Stat. 884.
