---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 285w"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "285w"
heading: "Contribution to Asian Development Fund; authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/285w"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XIV — Asian Development Bank"
---

# §285w. Contribution to Asian Development Fund; authorization of appropriations

- (a) The United States Governor of the Bank is authorized to contribute on behalf of the United States $66,750,000 to the Asian Development Fund, a special fund of the Bank: Provided, however, That any commitment to make such contribution shall be made subject to obtaining the necessary appropriations.
- (b) In order to pay for the United States contribution to the Asian Development Fund provided for in this section, there is authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, $66,750,000 for payment by the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury: Provided, however, That no funds may be made available for such contribution for the fiscal year 1982.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–369, § 26, as added Pub. L. 97–35, title XIII, § 1352(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 744.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Aug. 13, 1981, except that any funds authorized to be appropriated shall not be available for use or obligation prior to Oct. 1, 1981, see section 1372 of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as a note under section 290i of this title.