---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 290g–3"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "290g–3"
heading: "Specific actions requiring Congressional authorization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/290g-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XXII — African Development Fund"
---

# §290g–3. Specific actions requiring Congressional authorization


Unless Congress by law authorizes such action, neither the President nor any person or agency shall, on behalf of the United States:

- (a) agree to an increase in the subscription of the United States to the Fund;
- (b) vote for or agree to any amendment of the agreement which increases the obligations of the United States, or which would change the purpose or functions of the Fund; or
- (c) make a loan or provide other financing to the Fund, except that funds for technical assistance may be provided to the Fund by a United States agency created pursuant to an Act of Congress which is authorized by law to provide funds to international organizations.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–302, title II, § 205, May 31, 1976, 90 Stat. 594.)