§ 2264. Suspension or removal of director or officer

Statutory text

Written notice of intention to remove; violation of law, rule, regulation, or final cease and desist order; unsafe or unsound practice; breach of fiduciary duty

Whenever, in the opinion of the Farm Credit Administration, any director or officer of any institution in the Farm Credit System has committed any violation of law, rule, or regulation or of a cease and desist order that has become final, or has engaged or participated in any unsafe or unsound practice in connection with the institution, or has committed or engaged in any act, omission, or practice which constitutes a breach of a fiduciary duty as such director or officer, and the Farm Credit Administration determines that the institution has suffered or will probably suffer substantial financial loss or other damage or that the interests of its shareholders or investors in Farm Credit System obligations could be seriously prejudiced by reason of such violation or practice or breach of fiduciary duty, or that the director or officer has received financial gain by reason of such violation or practice or breach of fiduciary duty, and that such violation or practice or breach of fiduciary duty is one involving personal dishonesty on the part of such director or officer, or one that demonstrates a willful or continuing disregard for the safety or soundness of the System institution, the Farm Credit Administration may serve upon such director or officer a written notice of its intention to remove him from office.

Written notice of intention to remove or suspend director, officer or other person; personal dishonesty; willful or continuing disregard; unfitness to continue in office or to participate in affairs of institution

Whenever, in the opinion of the Farm Credit Administration, any director or officer of an institution in the Farm Credit System, by conduct or practice with respect to another institution in the Farm Credit System or other business institution that resulted in substantial financial loss or other damage, has evidenced either his personal dishonesty or a willful or continuing disregard for its safety and soundness and, in addition, has evidenced his unfitness to continue as a director or officer, and whenever, in the opinion of the Farm Credit Administration, any other person participating in the conduct of the affairs of an institution in the Farm Credit System, by the conduct or practice with respect to such institution or other institution in the Farm Credit System or other business institution that resulted in substantial financial loss or other damage, has evidenced either personal dishonesty or a willful or continuing disregard for its safety and soundness and, in addition, has evidenced his unfitness to participate in the conduct of the affairs of such institution, the Farm Credit Administration may serve upon such director, officer, or other person a written notice of its intention to remove that director, officer, or other person from office or to prohibit his further participation in any manner in the conduct of the affairs of the institution.

Suspension from office; prohibition from further participation in conduct of affairs of institution; service of notice

In respect to any director or officer of an institution in the Farm Credit System or any other person referred to in subsection (a) or (b) of this section, the Farm Credit Administration may, if it deems it necessary for the protection of the institution or the interests of its shareholders and the investors in the Farm Credit System obligations, by written notice to such effect served upon such director, officer, or other person, suspend such director, officer, or other person from office or prohibit such director, officer, or other person from further participation in any manner in the conduct of the affairs of the institution. Such suspension or prohibition shall become effective upon service of such notice and, unless stayed by a court in proceedings authorized by subsection (e) of this section, shall remain in effect pending the completion of the administrative proceedings pursuant to the notice served under subsection (a) or (b) and until such time as the Farm Credit Administration shall dismiss the charges specified in such notice, or, if an order of removal or prohibition is issued against the director or officer or other person, until the effective date of any such order. Copies of any such notice shall also be served upon the institution of which the person is a director or officer or in the conduct of whose affairs the person has participated.

Statement of grounds for removal or prohibition; notice and hearing; order of suspension, removal or prohibition; service of order

A notice of intention to remove a director, officer, or other person from office or to prohibit such director’s, officer’s, or other person’s participation in the conduct of the affairs of an institution in the Farm Credit System, shall contain a statement of the facts constituting grounds therefor, and shall fix a time and place at which a hearing will be held thereon. Such hearing shall be fixed for a date not earlier than thirty days nor later than sixty days after the date of service of such notice, unless an earlier or a later date is set by the Farm Credit Administration at the request of (1) such director or officer or other person, and for good cause shown, or (2) the Attorney General of the United States. Unless such director, officer, or other person shall appear at the hearing in person or by a duly authorized representative, such director, officer, or other person shall be deemed to have consented to the issuance of an order of such removal or prohibition. In the event of such consent, or if upon the record made at any such hearing the Farm Credit Administration shall find that any of the grounds specified in such notice have been established, the Farm Credit Administration may issue such orders of suspension or removal from office, or prohibition from participation in the conduct of the affairs of the institution, as it may deem appropriate. A copy of an order issued under this subsection shall be served upon the institution concerned. Any such order shall become effective at the expiration of thirty days after service upon such institution and the director, officer, or other person concerned (except in the case of an order issued upon consent, which shall become effective at the time specified therein). Such order shall remain effective and enforceable except to such extent as it is stayed, modified, terminated, or set aside by action of the agency or a reviewing court.

Stay of suspension or prohibition

Within ten days after any director, officer, or other person has been suspended from office or prohibited from participation in the conduct of the affairs of a System institution under subsection (c) of this section, such director, officer, or other person may apply to the United States district court for the judicial district in which the home office of the institution is located, or the United States district court for the District of Columbia, for a stay of either such suspension or prohibition, or both, pending the completion of the administrative proceedings pursuant to the notice served upon such director, officer, or other person under subsection (a) or (b), and such court shall have jurisdiction to stay either such suspension or prohibition, or both.

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.

1985
Farm Credit Act of 1971
Pub. L. 92–181 title V § 5 · 85 Stat. 583
Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 2264
Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.28, as added Pub. L. 99–205, title II, § 204, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1696
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.28, as added Pub. L. 99–205, title II, § 204, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1696
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.
1988
Agricultural Credit Act of 1987
Pub. L. 100–233 § 805(aa)(1) · 101 Stat. 1568
Amended · 12 U.S.C. § 2264(a)
Pub. L. 100–233, § 805(aa)(1), designated provisions preceding subsec. (b) as subsec. (a)
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–233, § 805(aa)(1), designated provisions preceding subsec. (b) as subsec. (a).
Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) by inserting “(a)” before “Whenever” the first place it appears; and
Effective date note
Amendment by Pub. L. 100–399 effective as if enacted immediately after enactment of Pub. L. 100–233, which was approved Jan. 6, 1988, see section 1001(a) of Pub. L. 100–399, set out as a note under section 2002 of this title.
1988
Agricultural Credit Act of 1987
Pub. L. 100–233 § 805(aa)(2) · 101 Stat. 1568
Substituted · 12 U.S.C. § 2264(e)
Pub. L. 100–233, § 805(aa)(2), substituted “subsection (d) of this section” for “subsection (d)(3) of this section”
Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 100–233, § 805(aa)(2), substituted “subsection (d) of this section” for “subsection (d)(3) of this section”.
Enacted provision · exact public law section
(2) in subsection (e), by striking out “(d)(3)” and inserting in lieu thereof “(d)”.
Effective date note
Amendment by Pub. L. 100–399 effective as if enacted immediately after enactment of Pub. L. 100–233, which was approved Jan. 6, 1988, see section 1001(a) of Pub. L. 100–399, set out as a note under section 2002 of this title.
1988
Agricultural Credit Technical Corrections Act of 1988
Pub. L. 100–399 title VII § 702(d) · 102 Stat. 989
Substituted · 12 U.S.C. § 2264(e)
Pub. L. 100–399 substituted “subsection (c)” for “subsection (d)”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 100–399 substituted “subsection (c)” for “subsection (d)”.
Enacted provision · exact public law section
(d) Section 5.28(e) is amended by striking out “(d)” and inserting in lieu thereof “(c)”.
Effective date note
Amendment by Pub. L. 100–399 effective as if enacted immediately after enactment of Pub. L. 100–233, which was approved Jan. 6, 1988, see section 1001(a) of Pub. L. 100–399, set out as a note under section 2002 of this title.

4 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 5.28 of Pub. L. 92–181 was renumbered section 5.42 and is set out as a note under section 2001 of this title.

Amendments

1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–233, § 805(aa)(1), designated provisions preceding subsec. (b) as subsec. (a).

Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 100–399 substituted “subsection (c)” for “subsection (d)”.

Pub. L. 100–233, § 805(aa)(2), substituted “subsection (d) of this section” for “subsection (d)(3) of this section”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1988 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 100–399 effective as if enacted immediately after enactment of Pub. L. 100–233, which was approved Jan. 6, 1988, see section 1001(a) of Pub. L. 100–399, set out as a note under section 2002 of this title.

Effective Date

Section effective thirty days after Dec. 23, 1985, see section 401 of Pub. L. 99–205, set out as an Effective Date of 1985 Amendment note under section 2001 of this title.

Credits

1985–1988 · 3 acts

1985Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.28, as added Pub. L. 99–205, title II, § 204, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1696
1988amended Pub. L. 100–233, title VIII, § 805(aa), Jan. 6, 1988, 101 Stat. 1717
1988Pub. L. 100–399, title VII, § 702(d), Aug. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 1006.

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(Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.28, as added Pub. L. 99–205, title II, § 204, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1696; amended Pub. L. 100–233, title VIII, § 805(aa), Jan. 6, 1988, 101 Stat. 1717; Pub. L. 100–399, title VII, § 702(d), Aug. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 1006.)