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

# §285f. Jurisdiction and venue of actions


For the purpose of any civil action which may be brought within the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), its territories or possessions, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, by or against the Bank in accordance with the [agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7), the Bank shall be deemed to be an inhabitant of the Federal judicial district in which its principal [office](/usc/22/2214a.md?p=9) or agency in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) is located, and any such action to which the Bank shall be a party shall be deemed to arise under the laws of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), and the district courts of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), including the courts enumerated in [section 460 of title 28](/usc/28/460.md), shall have original jurisdiction of any such action. When the Bank is a defendant in any action in a State court, it may, at any time before the trial thereof, remove such action into the district court of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) for the proper district by following the procedure for removal of causes otherwise provided by law.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–369, § 8, Mar. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 72.)