---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6762"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6762"
heading: "Specific enforcement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6762"
units:
  - "Chapter 75 — Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation"
  - "Subchapter IV — Enforcement"
---

# §6762. Specific enforcement

- (a) **Jurisdiction—** The district courts of the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) shall have jurisdiction over civil actions to—
  - (1) restrain any violation of section [6726](/usc/22/6726.md) or [6745](/usc/22/6745.md) of this title; and
  - (2) compel the taking of any action required by or under this chapter or the [Convention](/usc/22/6701.md?p=2).
- (b) **Civil actions—**
  - (1) **In general—** A civil action described in [subsection (a)](#a) may be brought—
    - (A) in the case of a civil action described in [subsection (a)(1)](#a-1), in the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) district court for the judicial district in which any act, omission, or transaction constituting a violation of section [6726](/usc/22/6726.md) or [6745](/usc/22/6745.md) of this title occurred or in which the defendant is found or transacts business; or
    - (B) in the case of a civil action described in [subsection (a)(2)](#a-2), in the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) district court for the judicial district in which the defendant is found or transacts business.
  - (2) **Service of process—** In any such civil action process may be served on a defendant wherever the defendant may reside or may be found, whether the defendant resides or may be found within the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) or elsewhere.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title V, § 502, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–885.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a)(2), was in the original “this Act” and was translated as reading “this division”, meaning div. I of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–856, known as the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998, to reflect the probable intent of Congress. For complete classification of division I to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6701 of this title and Tables.