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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System

§ 261. Creation; membership; compensation; meetings; officers; procedure; quorum; vacancies

Statutory text

There is created a Federal Advisory Council, which shall consist of as many members as there are Federal reserve districts. Each Federal reserve bank by its board of directors shall annually select from its own Federal reserve district one member of said council, who shall receive such compensation and allowances as may be fixed by his board of directors subject to the approval of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The meetings of said advisory council shall be held at Washington, District of Columbia, at least four times each year, and oftener if called by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The council may in addition to the meetings above provided for hold such other meetings in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, as it may deem necessary, may select its own officers and adopt its own methods of procedure, and a majority of its members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Vacancies in the council shall be filled by the respective reserve banks, and members selected to fill vacancies shall serve for the unexpired term.

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. Pub. L. 63–6 § 12 · 38 Stat. 103

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 261

    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 12 (par.), 38 Stat. 263

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 12 (par.), 38 Stat. 263

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Twelfth. May also provide that any difference arising as to the Provision for subsequent ruling, etc., as to award. meaning or the application of the provisions of an award made by a board or arbitration shall be referred back to the same board or to a subcommittee of such board for a ruling, which ruling shall have the same force and effect as the original award; and if any member of the original board is unable or unwilling to serve another arbitrator shall be named in the same manner as such original member was named.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is comprised of first par. of section 12 of act . Second par. of section 12 is classified to section 262 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Section 203(a) of act , changed name of Federal Reserve Board to Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Credits

1913–1935 · 2 acts
  1. 1913Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 12 (par.), 38 Stat. 263
  2. 1935Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704.
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(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 12 (par.), 38 Stat. 263; Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704.)

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