22 U.S.C. § 283e: Payment of subscription to…

Summary

Congress can approve $350 million to buy 35,000 shares in the Bank and $100 million to pay the United States’ subscription to the Fund for Special Operations. These amounts can be appropriated without fiscal year limits, so they do not expire at the end of a year. After the U.S. pays the required parts of its subscription and quota, the Treasury Secretary can issue special U.S. notes at face value and give them to the Bank for dollars to keep U.S. costs low. Those notes follow the rules in chapter 31 of title 31, pay no interest, cannot be traded, and must be payable when the Bank asks. The total face value outstanding cannot be more than the amount the United States actually paid into the Bank. Any net‑income payments the Bank makes to the United States must be deposited into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

Title 22, §283e

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(a)Authorization of appropriations

There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, for the purchase of thirty-five thousand shares of capital stock in the Bank, $350 million. In addition, there is authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, for payment of the subscription of the United States to the Fund for Special Operations, $100 million.

(b)Issuance of special notes

For the purpose of keeping to a minimum the cost to the United States of participation in the Bank, the Secretary of the Treasury, after paying the requisite part of the subscription and quota of the United States in the Bank required to be made under article II, section 4, and article IV, section 3, respectively, of the agreement, is authorized and directed to issue special notes of the United States from time to time, at par, and to deliver such notes to the Bank in exchange for dollars to the extent permitted by the agreement. The special notes provided for in this subsection shall be issued under the authority and subject to the provisions of chapter 31 of title 31, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under that chapter are extended to include the purposes for which special notes are authorized and directed to be issued under this subsection, but such notes shall bear no interest, shall be nonnegotiable, and shall be payable on demand of the Bank. The face amount of special notes issued to the Bank under the authority of this subsection and outstanding at any one time shall not exceed, in the aggregate, the amount of the subscription and quota of the United States actually paid to the Bank under article II, section 4, and article IV, section 3, respectively, of the agreement.

(c)Income covered into Treasury

Any payment made to the United States by the Bank as a distribution of net income shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt.

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Codification In subsec. (b), “chapter 31 of title 31” and “that chapter” substituted for “the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended” and “that Act”, respectively, on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.

§283e Payment of Subscription to Bank and Fund by United States

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Title 22, §283e

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