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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System

§ 266. State-chartered banks and other institutions as depositaries of public money; fiscal agents; duties

Statutory text

Banks, savings banks, and savings and loan, building and loan, homestead associations (including cooperative banks), and credit unions created under the laws of any State and the deposits or accounts of which are insured by a State or agency thereof or corporation chartered pursuant to the laws of any State may be depositaries of public money and may be employed as fiscal agents of the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to deposit public money in any such institution, and shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to enable such institutions to become depositaries of public money and fiscal agents of the United States. Each such institution shall perform all such reasonable duties as depositary of public money and fiscal agent of the United States as may be required of it including services in connection with the collection of taxes and other obligations owed the United States.

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. 95–147 § 2(d) · 91 Stat. 1227

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 266

    (Pub. L. 95–147, § 2(d), Oct. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1228.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 95–147, § 2(d), Oct. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1228.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (d) Banks, savings banks, and savings and loan, building and loan, homestead associations (including cooperative banks), and credit unions created under the laws of any State and the deposits or accounts of which are insured by a State or agency thereof or corporation chartered pursuant to the laws of any State may be depositaries of public money and may be employed as fiscal agents of the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to deposit public money in any such institution, and shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to enable such institutions to become depositaries of public money and fiscal agents of the United States. Each such institution shall perform all such reasonable duties as depositary of public money and fiscal agent of the United States as may be required of it including services in connection with the collection of taxes and other obligations owed the United States.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Reserve Act, which comprises this chapter.

Credits

(Pub. L. 95–147, § 2(d), , 91 Stat. 1228.)

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