---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 283a"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "283a"
heading: "Appointment of officers; term of office; salary"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/283a"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XII — Inter-American Development Bank"
---

# §283a. Appointment of officers; term of office; salary

- (a) **Governor and alternate governor—** The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a governor of the Bank and an alternate for the governor. The term of [office](/usc/22/2214a.md?p=9) for the governor and the alternate governor shall be five years, but each shall remain in [office](/usc/22/2214a.md?p=9) until a successor has been appointed.
- (b) **Executive director and alternate executive director—** The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint an [executive director](/usc/22/10601.md?p=5) of the Bank and an alternate [Executive Director](/usc/22/10601.md?p=5). Except as provided for in article XV, section 3, of the [agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7), the term of [office](/usc/22/2214a.md?p=9) for the [executive director](/usc/22/10601.md?p=5) shall be three years, but he shall remain in [office](/usc/22/2214a.md?p=9) until a successor has been appointed.
- (c) **Compensation—** No person shall be entitled to receive any salary or other compensation from the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) for services as a governor, alternate governor, or [executive director](/usc/22/10601.md?p=5).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–147, § 3, Aug. 7, 1959, 73 Stat. 299; Pub. L. 91–599, ch. 2, § 21(b), Dec. 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 1658.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1970—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 91–599 authorized appointment of an alternate Executive Director.