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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 2416. Time for commencing actions brought by the United States - Exclusions
For the purpose of computing the limitations periods established
in section 2415, there shall be excluded all periods during which -
(a) the defendant or the res is outside the United States, its
territories and possessions, the District of Columbia, or the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; or
(b) the defendant is exempt from legal process because of
infancy, mental incompetence, diplomatic immunity, or for any
other reason; or
(c) facts material to the right of action are not known and
reasonably could not be known by an official of the United States
charged with the responsibility to act in the circumstances; or
(d) the United States is in a state of war declared pursuant to
article I, section 8, of the Constitution of the United States.
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