---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 286e–6"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "286e–6"
heading: "Vote against establishment of Council"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/286e-6"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XV — International Monetary Fund and Bank for Reconstruction and Development"
---

# §286e–6. Vote against establishment of Council


The United States Governor of the Fund is directed to vote against the establishment of a Council authorized under Article XII, Section 1 of the Fund Articles of Agreement as amended, if under any circumstances the United States’ vote in the Council would be less than its weighted vote in the Fund.


## Source credit

(July 31, 1945, ch. 339, § 26, as added Pub. L. 94–564, § 1, Oct. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 2660.)