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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Part B · Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System

§ 2259. State legislation

Statutory text

Whenever it is determined by the Farm Credit Administration, or by judicial decision, that a State law is applicable to the obligations and securities authorized to be held by the institutions of the System under this chapter, which law would provide insufficient protection or inadequate safeguards against loss in the event of default, the Farm Credit Administration may declare such obligations or securities to be ineligible as collateral for the issuance of new notes, bonds, debentures, and other obligations under this chapter.

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. Farm Credit Act of 1971

    Pub. L. 92–181 title V § 5 · 85 Stat. 583

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 2259

    Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.24, formerly § 5.25, Dec. 10, 1971, 85 Stat. 624

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.24, formerly § 5.25, Dec. 10, 1971, 85 Stat. 624

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (5) Acquire, hold, dispose, and otherwise exercise all the usual incidents of ownership of real and personal property necessary or convenient to its business.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 5.24 of Pub. L. 92–181 was renumbered section 5.23 and is classified to section 2258 of this title.

Credits

1971–1985 · 2 acts
  1. 1971Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.24, formerly § 5.25, , 85 Stat. 624
  2. 1985renumbered § 5.24, Pub. L. 99–205, title II, § 203(b), , 99 Stat. 1694.
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(Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.24, formerly § 5.25, , 85 Stat. 624; renumbered § 5.24, Pub. L. 99–205, title II, § 203(b), , 99 Stat. 1694.)

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