---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 284c"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "284c"
heading: "Congressional authorization needed for certain actions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/284c"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XIII — International Development Association"
---

# §284c. Congressional authorization needed for certain actions


Unless Congress by law authorizes such action, neither the President nor any person or agency shall, on behalf of the United States, (a) subscribe to additional funds under article III, section 1, of the articles; (b) accept any amendment under article IX of the articles; or (c) make a loan or provide other financing to the Association.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–565, § 5, June 30, 1960, 74 Stat. 294.)