---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 282l"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "282l"
heading: "Capital stock increase"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/282l"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XI — International Finance Corporation"
---

# §282l. Capital stock increase

- (a) **Subscription authorized—**
  - (1) **In general—** The United States Governor of the Corporation may—
    - (A) vote for an increase of 1,000,000 shares in the authorized capital stock of the Corporation; and
    - (B) subscribe on behalf of the United States to 250,000 additional shares of the capital stock of the Corporation.
  - (2) **Prior appropriation required—** The subscription authority provided in [paragraph (1)](#a-1) shall be effective only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts.
- (b) **Limitations on authorization of appropriations—** In order to pay for the subscription authorized in [subsection (a)](#a), there are authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, $50,000,000 for payment by the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury.

## Source credit

(Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 788, § 14, as added Pub. L. 102–145, § 125(a), Oct. 28, 1991, as added Pub. L. 102–266, § 102, Apr. 1, 1992, 106 Stat. 97.)