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

# §285ee. Fifth 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 1,104,420 additional shares of the capital stock of the Bank.
  - (2) Any subscription by the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) to 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) **Authorization of appropriations—**
  - (1) 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, $13,323,173,083, for payment by the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury.
  - (2) Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under [paragraph (1)](#b-1)—
    - (A) $532,929,240 is authorized to be appropriated for paid-in shares of the Bank; and
    - (B) $12,790,243,843 is authorized to be appropriated for callable shares of the Bank, for payment by the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–369, § 34, as added Pub. L. 112–10, div. B, title XI, § 2126(e), Apr. 15, 2011, 125 Stat. 191.)