---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 8143"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "8143"
heading: "Specific enforcement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/8143"
units:
  - "Chapter 88 — Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—united States Additional Protocol Implementation"
  - "Subchapter IV — Enforcement"
---

# §8143. Specific enforcement

- (a) **Jurisdiction—** The district courts of the [United States](/usc/22/8102.md?p=13) shall have jurisdiction over civil actions brought by the head of an [executive agency](/usc/22/8102.md?p=4) designated under [section 8111(a) of this title](/usc/22/8111.md?p=a)—
  - (1) to restrain any conduct in violation of [section 8124 of this title](/usc/22/8124.md) or [section 8141 of this title](/usc/22/8141.md); or
  - (2) to compel the taking of any action required by or under this chapter or the [Additional Protocol](/usc/22/8102.md?p=1).
- (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 [paragraph (1)](#b-1) of such subsection, in the [United States](/usc/22/8102.md?p=13) district court for the judicial district in which any act, omission, or transaction constituting a violation of [section 8124 of this title](/usc/22/8124.md) or [section 8141 of this title](/usc/22/8141.md) occurred or in which the defendant is found or transacts business; or
    - (B) in the case of a civil action described in [paragraph (2)](#b-2) of such subsection, in the [United States](/usc/22/8102.md?p=13) 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 shall be served on a defendant wherever the defendant may reside or may be found.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–401, title II, § 243, Dec. 18, 2006, 120 Stat. 2749.)