---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 160"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "160"
heading: "Maintenance of agent for service"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/160"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — China Trade"
---

# §160. Maintenance of agent for service


Every [China Trade Act corporation](/usc/15/142.md?p=c) shall maintain in the District of Columbia a [person](/usc/15/142.md?p=a) as its accredited agent, upon whom legal process may be served, in any suit to be brought in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and who is authorized to enter an appearance in its behalf. In the event of the death or inability to serve, or the resignation or removal, of such [person](/usc/15/142.md?p=a), such [corporation](/usc/15/142.md?p=c) shall, within such time as the [Secretary](/usc/15/142.md?p=e) by regulation prescribes, appoint a successor. Such [corporation](/usc/15/142.md?p=c) shall file with the [Secretary](/usc/15/142.md?p=e) a certified copy of each power of attorney appointing a [person](/usc/15/142.md?p=a) under this section, and a certified copy of the written consent of each [person](/usc/15/142.md?p=a) so appointed.


## Source credit

(Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 20(b), as added Feb. 26, 1925, ch. 345, § 10, 43 Stat. 996; June 25, 1936, ch. 804, 49 Stat. 1921; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 32(a), 62 Stat. 991; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 127, 63 Stat. 107.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section comprises subsec. (b) of section 20 of act Sept. 19, 1922, as added by act Feb. 26, 1925. Subsec. (a) of section 20 is classified to section 146a of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Act June 25, 1948, eff. Sept. 1, 1948, as amended by act May 24, 1949, substituted “United States District Court for the District of Columbia” for “district court of the United States for the District of Columbia.”

Act June 25, 1936, changed name of “Supreme Court of the District of Columbia” to “district court of the United States for the District of Columbia”.