---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 285q"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "285q"
heading: "Subscription to additional shares; authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/285q"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XIV — Asian Development Bank"
---

# §285q. Subscription to additional shares; authorization of appropriations

- (a) The [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) Governor of the Bank is authorized to subscribe on behalf of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) to thirty thousand additional shares of the capital stock of the Bank in accordance with and subject to the terms and conditions of Resolution Numbered 46 adopted by the Bank’s [Board](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=4) of Governors on November 30, 1971.
- (b) 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 this section, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated without fiscal year limitation $361,904,726 for payment by the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–369, § 20, as added Pub. L. 93–537, Dec. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 1735.)