§ 283gg. — Jurisdiction of United States courts.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC283gg]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
SUBCHAPTER XII-A--INTER-AMERICAN INVESTMENT CORPORATION
Sec. 283gg. Jurisdiction of United States courts
For the purposes of any civil action which may be brought within the
United States, its territories or possessions, or the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, by or against the Corporation in accordance with the
agreement, the Corporation shall be deemed to be an inhabitant of the
Federal judicial district in which its principal office within the
United States or its agent appointed for the purpose of accepting
service or notice of service is located, and any such action to which
the Corporation shall be a party shall be deemed to arise under the laws
of the United States, and the district courts of the United States,
including the courts enumerated in section 460 of title 28, shall have
original jurisdiction of any such action. When the Corporation is a
defendant in any action in a State court, it may at any time before the
trial thereof remove the action into the appropriate district court of
the United States by following the procedure for removal provided in
section 1446 of title 28.
(Pub. L. 98-473, title I, Sec. 101(1) [title I], Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat.
1884, 1885.)
Codification
Section is based on section 208 of title II of S. 2416, Ninety-
eighth Congress, as introduced Mar. 13, 1984, and enacted into law by
Pub. L. 98-473.
