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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 33 — Depository Institution Management Interlocks

§ 3203. Dual service of management official of $2,500,000,000 institution or holding company as management official of unaffiliated $1,500,000,000 institution or holding company prohibited

Statutory text

If a depository institution or a depository holding company has total assets exceeding $2,500,000,000, a management official of such institution or any affiliate thereof may not serve as a management official of any other nonaffiliated depository institution or depository holding company having total assets exceeding $1,500,000,000 or as a management official of any affiliate of such other institution. In order to allow for inflation or market changes, the appropriate Federal depository institutions regulatory agencies may, by regulation, adjust, as necessary, the amount of total assets required for depository institutions or depository holding companies under this section.

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. Depository Institution Management Interlocks Act

    Pub. L. 95–630 title II § 204 · 92 Stat. 3641

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 3203

    Pub. L. 95–630, title II, § 204, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3673

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 95–630, title II, § 204, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3673

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 204. If a depository institution or a depository holding company Service in another institution, prohibition. 12 USC 3203. has total assets exceeding $1,000,000,000, a management official of such institution or any affiliate thereof may not serve as a management official of any other nonaffiliated depository institution or depository holding company having total assets exceeding $500,000,000 or as a management official of any affiliate of such other institution.

  2. Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997

    Pub. L. 104–208 div. A title II § 2210(a) · 110 Stat. 3009

    1. Substituted · 12 U.S.C. § 3203

      Pub. L. 104–208 substituted “$2,500,000,000” for “$1,000,000,000”

    2. Substituted · 12 U.S.C. § 3203

      Pub. L. 104–208 substituted “$1,500,000,000” for “$500,000,000”

    3. Inserted · 12 U.S.C. § 3203

      Pub. L. 104–208 inserted at end “In order to allow for inflation or market changes, the appropriate Federal depository institutions regulatory agencies may, by regulation, adjust, as necessary, the amount of total assets required for depository institutions or depository holding companies under this section.”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 104–208 substituted “$2,500,000,000” for “$1,000,000,000” and “$1,500,000,000” for “$500,000,000” and inserted at end “In order to allow for inflation or market changes, the appropriate Federal depository institutions regulatory agencies may, by regulation, adjust, as necessary, the amount of total assets required for depository institutions or depository holding companies under this section.”

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) Dual Service Among Larger Organizations.— Section 204 of the Depository Institution Management Interlocks Act (12 U.S.C. 3203) is amended— (1) by striking “$1,000,000,000” and inserting “$2,500,000,000”; (2) by striking “$500,000,000” and inserting “$1,500,000,000”; and (3) by adding at the end the following: “In order to allow for inflation or market changes, the appropriate Federal depository institutions regulatory agencies may, by regulation, adjust, as necessary, the amount of total assets required for depository institutions or depository holding companies under this section.”.

4 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–208 substituted “$2,500,000,000” for “$1,000,000,000” and “$1,500,000,000” for “$500,000,000” and inserted at end “In order to allow for inflation or market changes, the appropriate Federal depository institutions regulatory agencies may, by regulation, adjust, as necessary, the amount of total assets required for depository institutions or depository holding companies under this section.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective upon the expiration of 120 days after , see section 2101 of Pub. L. 95–630, set out as a note under section 375b of this title.

Credits

1978–1996 · 2 acts
  1. 1978Pub. L. 95–630, title II, § 204, , 92 Stat. 3673
  2. 1996Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title II, § 2210(a), , 110 Stat. 3009–409.
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(Pub. L. 95–630, title II, § 204, , 92 Stat. 3673; Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title II, § 2210(a), , 110 Stat. 3009–409.)

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