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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 2 — National Banks

§ 196. Expenses

Statutory text

All expenses of any preliminary or other examinations into the condition of any association shall be paid by such association. All expenses of any receivership shall be paid out of the assets of such association before distribution of the proceeds thereof.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. R.S. § 5238

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 196

    R.S. § 5238

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    R.S. § 5238

  2. Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994

    Pub. L. 103–325 title VI § 602(g)(13) · 108 Stat. 2160

    Struck · 12 U.S.C. § 196

    Pub. L. 103–325 struck out at beginning “All fees for protesting the notes issued by any national banking association shall be paid by the person procuring the protest to be made, and such association shall be liable therefor; but no part of the bonds deposited by such association shall be applied to the payment of such fees.”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 103–325 struck out at beginning “All fees for protesting the notes issued by any national banking association shall be paid by the person procuring the protest to be made, and such association shall be liable therefor; but no part of the bonds deposited by such association shall be applied to the payment of such fees.”

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (13) Section 5238 of the Revised Statutes (12 U.S.C. 196) is amended by striking the 1st sentence.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 5238 derived from act June 3, 1864, ch. 106, § 51, 13 Stat. 115, which was the National Bank Act. See section 38 of this title.

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–325 struck out at beginning “All fees for protesting the notes issued by any national banking association shall be paid by the person procuring the protest to be made, and such association shall be liable therefor; but no part of the bonds deposited by such association shall be applied to the payment of such fees.”

Credits

1994 · 2 acts
  1. R.S. § 5238
  2. 1994Pub. L. 103–325, title VI, § 602(g)(13), , 108 Stat. 2294.
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(R.S. § 5238; Pub. L. 103–325, title VI, § 602(g)(13), , 108 Stat. 2294.)

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