---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 284c"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "284c"
heading: "Congressional authorization needed for certain actions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/284c"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XIII — International Development Association"
---

# §284c. Congressional authorization needed for certain actions


Unless Congress by law authorizes such action, neither the President nor any person or agency shall, on behalf of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), (a) subscribe to additional [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) under article III, section 1, of the articles; (b) accept any amendment under article IX of the articles; or (c) make a loan or provide other financing to the Association.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–565, § 5, June 30, 1960, 74 Stat. 294.)