Volume 52
Public Law 75–276
To amend section 12B of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended.
Approved May 25, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 12B of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That paragraph (7) of subsection (1) of section 12B of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, Supp. II, title 12, sec. 264), be amended to read as follows:
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, subrogation to rights of paid depositors against closed national or District bank.
Other dosed insured banks.
“In the case of a closed national bank or District bank, the Corporation, upon the payment of any depositor as provided in paragraph (6) of this subsection, shall be subrogated to all rights of the depositor against the closed bank to the extent of such payment. In the case of any other closed insured bank, the Corporation shall not make any payment to any depositor until the right of the Corporation to be subrogated to the rights of such depositor on the same basis as provided in the case of a closed national bank under this section shall have been recognized either by express provision of State law, by allowance of claims by the authority having supervision of such bank, by assignment of claims by depositors, or by any other effective
Right of Corporation to receive dividends.
method. In the case of any closed insured bank, such subrogation shall include the right on the part of the Corporation to receive the same dividends from the proceeds of the assets of such closed bank and recoveries on account of stockholders’ liability as would have been payable to the depositor on a claim for the insured deposit, but such depositor shall retain his claim for any uninsured portion of his
Provisos.
Waiver of stockholders’ liability in excess of amount unpaid on stock.
deposit: Provided, That, with respect to any bank which closes after the date this paragraph as amended takes effect, the Corporation shall waive, in favor only of any person against whom stockholders’ individual liability may be asserted, any claim on account of such liability in excess of the liability, if any, to the bank or its creditors, for the amount unpaid upon his stock in such bank; but any such waiver shall be effected in such manner and on such terms and conditions as will not increase recoveries or dividends on account of claims to which
State banks, application of State law.
the Corporation is not subrogated: Provided further, That the rights of depositors and other creditors of any State bank shall be determined in accordance with the applicable provisions of State law.”
Approved, May 25, 1938.