---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 282j"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "282j"
heading: "Increase in capital stock of Corporation; subscription to additional shares"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/282j"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XI — International Finance Corporation"
---

# §282j. Increase in capital stock of Corporation; subscription to additional shares

- (a) The [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) Governor of the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6) is authorized—
  - (1) to vote for an increase of 650,000 shares in the authorized capital stock of the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6); and
  - (2) to subscribe on behalf of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) to 175,162 additional shares of the capital stock of the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6), except that any subscription to additional shares shall be effective only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts.
- (b) In order to pay for the increase in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) subscription to the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6) provided for in this section, there are authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, § [175](/usc/22/175.md),162,000 for payment by the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury.

## Source credit

(Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 788, § 12, as added Pub. L. 99–190, § 101(i) [title I, (a)], Dec. 19, 1985, 99 Stat. 1291, 1294.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section 12 of act Aug. 11, 1955, is based on section 3 of H.R. 1948, Ninety-ninth Congress, as introduced Apr. 3, 1985, and enacted into law by Pub. L. 99–190.