Title 12 — Banks and Banking
Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System
§ 305. Class C directors; selection; “Federal reserve agent”
Statutory text
Class C directors shall be appointed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. They shall have been for at least two years residents of the district for which they are appointed, one of whom shall be designated by said board as chairman of the board of directors of the Federal reserve bank and as “Federal reserve agent.” He shall be a person of tested banking experience and in addition to his duties as chairman of the board of directors of the Federal reserve bank he shall be required to maintain, under regulations to be established by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, a local office of said board on the premises of the Federal reserve bank. He shall make regular reports to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and shall act as its official representative for the performance of the functions conferred upon it by this chapter. He shall receive an annual compensation to be fixed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and paid monthly by the Federal reserve bank to which he is designated. One of the directors of class C shall be appointed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as deputy chairman to exercise the powers of the chairman of the board when necessary. In case of the absence of the chairman and deputy chairman, the third class C director shall preside at meetings of the board.
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 § 4 · 38 Stat. 103
Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 305
Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 4 (par.), 38 Stat. 256
Source evidence
Code source credit
Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 4 (par.), 38 Stat. 256Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. That the agreement to arbitrate— Requirements of agreement to arbitrate. First. Shall be in writing; Second. Shall stipulate that the arbitration is had under the provisions of this Act; Third. Shall state whether the board of arbitration is to consist of three or six members; Fourth. Shall be signed by duly accredited representatives of the employer or employers and of the employees; Fifth. Shall state specifically the questions to be submitted to the said board for decision; Sixth. Shall stipulate that a majority of said board shall be competent to make a valid and binding award; Seventh. Shall fix a period from the date of the appointment of the arbitrator or arbitrators necessary to complete the board, as provided for in the agreement, within which the said board shall commence its hearings; Eighth. Shall fix a period from the beginning of the hearings within which the said board shall make and file its award: Provided, That Proviso. Time for hearings. this period shall be thirty days unless a different period be agreed to; Ninth. Shall provide for the date from which the award shall Operation of award. become effective and shall fix the period during which the said award shall continue in force; Tenth. Shall provide that the respective parties to the award will Execution of award. each faithfully execute the same; Eleventh. Shall provide that the award and the papers and proceedings, Action by district court. including the testimony relating thereto, certified under the hands of the arbitrators, and which shall have the force and effect of a bill of exceptions, shall be filed in the clerk’s office of the district court of the United States for the district wherein the controversy arises or the arbitration is entered into, and shall be final and conclusive upon the parties to the agreement unless set aside for error of law apparent on the record; 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
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, 38 Stat. 251, known as the Federal Reserve Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see References in Text note set out under section 226 of this title and Tables.
Codification
Section is comprised of par. 22 of section 4 of act . For classification to this title of other pars. of section 4, see Codification note set out under section 301 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 · 3 acts
- 1913Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 4 (par.), 38 Stat. 256
- 1917June 21, 1917, ch. 32, § 2, 40 Stat. 232
- 1935Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704.
Show as published
(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 4 (par.), 38 Stat. 256; June 21, 1917, ch. 32, § 2, 40 Stat. 232; Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704.)