Title 12 — Banks and Banking
Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System
§ 283. Public subscription to capital stock
Statutory text
No individual, copartnership, or corporation other than a member bank of its district shall be permitted to subscribe for or to hold at any time more than $25,000 par value of stock in any Federal reserve bank. Such stock shall be known as public stock and may be transferred on the books of the Federal reserve bank by the chairman of the board of directors of such bank.
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.
Pub. L. 63–6 § 2 · 38 Stat. 103
Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 283
(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 2 (par.), 38 Stat. 253.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 2 (par.), 38 Stat. 253.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That whenever a controversy concerning wages, hours of labor, or conditions of employment shall arise between an employer or employers and employees subject to this Act interrupting or threatening to interrupt the business of said employer or employers to the serious detriment of the public interest, either party to such controversy may apply to the Board of Mediation and Conciliation created by this Act and invoke its services for the purpose of bringing about an amicable adjustment of the controversy; and upon the request of either party the said board shall with all practicable expedition put itself in communication with the parties to such controversy and shall use its best efforts, by mediation and conciliation, to bring them to an Arbitration if efforts unsuccessful. agreement; and if such efforts to bring about an amicable adjustment through mediation and conciliation shall be unsuccessful, the said board shall at once endeavor to induce the parties to submit their controversy to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Proffer of services in urgent cases. In any case in which an interruption of traffic is imminent and fraught with serious detriment to the public interest, the Board of Mediation and Conciliation may, if in its judgment such action seem desirable, proffer its services to the respective parties to the controversy. Opinions as to agreements. In any case in which a controversy arises over the meaning or the application of any agreement reached through mediation under the provisions of this Act either party to the said agreement may apply to the Board of Mediation and Conciliation for an expression of opinion from such board as to the meaning or application of such agreement and the said board shall upon receipt of such request give its opinion as soon as may be practicable.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is comprised of the ninth par. of section 2 of act . For classification of other pars. of section 2 of this Act, see Codification note set out under section 222 of this title.
Credits
(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 2 (par.), 38 Stat. 253.)