---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 290i–4"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "290i–4"
heading: "Restrictions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/290i-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XXIV — African Development Bank"
---

# §290i–4. Restrictions

- (a) [^1] Unless authorized by law, neither the President, nor any person or agency, shall, on behalf of the United States—
  - (1) subscribe to additional shares of stock of the Bank;
  - (2) vote for or agree to any amendment of the agreement which increases the obligations of the United States, or which changes the purpose or functions of the Bank; or
  - (3) make a loan or provide other financing to the Bank, except that funds for technical assistance may be provided to the Bank by a United States agency created pursuant to an Act of Congress which is authorized by law to provide funds to international organizations.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–35, title XIII, § 1336, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 742.)