---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 286g"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "286g"
heading: "Jurisdiction and venue of actions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/286g"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XV — International Monetary Fund and Bank for Reconstruction and Development"
---

# §286g. Jurisdiction and venue of actions


For the purpose of any action which may be brought within the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) or its Territories or possessions by or against the [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) or the Bank in accordance with the Articles of [Agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) of the [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) or the Articles of [Agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) of the Bank, the [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) or the Bank, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be an inhabitant of the Federal judicial district in which its principal [office](/usc/22/2214a.md?p=9) in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) is located, and any such action at law or in equity to which either the [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) or 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) shall have original jurisdiction of any such action. When either the [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) or the Bank is a defendant in any such action, it may, at any time before the trial thereof, remove such action from a State court 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

(July 31, 1945, ch. 339, § 10, 59 Stat. 516.)