22 USC § 285 - Acceptance of membership by United States in Asian Development Bank

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identifier: "/us/usc/t22/s285"
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title: "22 USC § 285 - Acceptance of membership by United States in Asian Development Bank"
title_number: 22
title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
section_number: "285"
section_name: "Acceptance of membership by United States in Asian Development Bank"
chapter_number: 7
chapter_name: "INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC."
subchapter_number: "XIV"
subchapter_name: "ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 89–369, § 2, Mar. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 71.)"
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# § 285. Acceptance of membership by United States in Asian Development Bank

The President is hereby authorized to accept membership for the United States in the Asian Development Bank (hereinafter referred to as the “Bank”) provided for by the agreement establishing the Bank (hereinafter referred to as the “agreement”) deposited in the archives of the United Nations.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 89–369, § 2, Mar. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 71.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

> “That this Act [enacting this subchapter and amending
> 
> , Banks and Banking] may be cited as the ‘Asian Development Bank Act’.”

, , , provided:

### Par Value Modification

For Congressional direction that the Secretary of the Treasury maintain the value in terms of gold of the Asian Development Bank’s holdings of United States dollars following the establishment of a par value of the dollar at $38 for a fine troy ounce of gold pursuant to the Par Value Modification Act and for the authorization of the appropriations necessary to provide such maintenance of value, see , Money and Finance.