---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 285aa"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "285aa"
heading: "Capital increase"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/285aa"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XIV — Asian Development Bank"
---

# §285aa. Capital increase

- (a) **Subscription authorized—**
  - (1) The [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) Governor of the Bank may subscribe on behalf of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) to 35,230 additional shares of the capital stock of the Bank. (2) Any subscription by the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) to the capital stock of the Bank shall be effective only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts.
- (b) **Limitations on authorization of appropriations—** In order to pay for the increase in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) subscription to the Bank provided for in [subsection (a)](#a), there are authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, $213,000,000 for payment by the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–369, § 30, as added Pub. L. 102–145, § 125(b), as added Pub. L. 102–266, § 102, Apr. 1, 1992, 106 Stat. 97.)