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THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT
THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT
Title 9, US Code, Section 1-14, was first enacted February 12, 1925 (43 Stat1>. 883), codified July 30, 1947 (61 Stat. 669), and amended September 3, 1954 (68 Stat. 1233). Chapter 2 was added July 31, 1970 (84 Stat. 692), two new Sections were passed by the Congress in October of 1988 and renumbered on December 1, 1990 (PLs669 and 702); Chapter 3 was added on August 15, 1990 (PL 101-369); and Section 10 was amended on November 15.
ARBITRATION
Chapter 1. General Provisions
Section 1. ;Maritime transactions; and ;commerce; defined; exceptions to operation of title
Section 2. Validity, irrevocability, and enforcement of agreements to arbitrate
Section 3. Stay of proceedings where issue therein referable to arbitration
Section 4. Failure to arbitrate under agreement; petition to United States court having jurisdiction for order pel arbitration; notice and service thereof; hearing and determination
Section 5. Appointment of arbitrators or umpire
Section 6. Application heard as motion
Section 7. Witnesses before arbitrators; fees; compelling attendance
Section 8. Proceedings begun by libel in admiralty and seizure of vessel or property
Section 9. Award of arbitrators; confirmation; jurisdiction; procedure
Section 10. Same; vacation; grounds; rehearing.
Section 11. Same; modification or correction; grounds; order
Section 12. Notice of motions to vacate or modify; service; stay of proceedings
Section 13. Papers filed with order on motions; judgment; docketing; force and effect; enforcement
Section 14. Contracts not affected
Section 15. Inapplicability of the Act of State doctrine
Section 16. Appeals
Chapter 2. Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards
Section 201. Enforcement of Convention
Section 202. Agreement or award falling under the Convention
Section 203. Jurisdiction; amount in controversy
Section 204. Venue
Section 205. Removal of cases from State court