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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System

§ 339a. Resolution of clearing banks

Statutory text

(a)

Conservatorship or receivership

(1)

Appointment

The Board may appoint a conservator or receiver to take possession and control of any uninsured State member bank which operates, or operates as, a multilateral clearing organization pursuant to section 4422 1 of this title to the same extent and in the same manner as the Comptroller of the Currency may appoint a conservator or receiver for a national bank.

(2)

Powers

The conservator or receiver for an uninsured State member bank referred to in paragraph (1) shall exercise the same powers, functions, and duties, subject to the same limitations, as a conservator or receiver for a national bank.

(b)

Board authority

The Board shall have the same authority with respect to any conservator or receiver appointed under subsection (a), and the uninsured State member bank for which the conservator or receiver has been appointed, as the Comptroller of the Currency has with respect to a conservator or receiver for a national bank and the national bank for which the conservator or receiver has been appointed.

(c)

Bankruptcy proceedings

The Board (in the case of an uninsured State member bank which operates, or operates as, such a multilateral clearing organization) may direct a conservator or receiver appointed for the bank to file a petition pursuant to title 11, in which case, title 11 shall apply to the bank in lieu of otherwise applicable Federal or State insolvency law.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

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. Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001

    Pub. L. 106–554 § 1(a)(5)(tI)(s112)(b) · 114 Stat. 2763

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 339a

    (Dec. 13, 1913, ch. 6, § 9B, as added Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 112(b)], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–392.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Dec. 13, 1913, ch. 6, § 9B, as added Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 112(b)], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–392.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (5) H.R. 5660, as introduced on December 14, 2000.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 4422 of this title, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), was repealed by Pub. L. 111–203, title VII, § 740, , 124 Stat. 1729.

Codification

Section was enacted as section 9B of act , and not as part of section 9 of such act which comprises this subchapter.

Credits

(Dec. 13, 1913, ch. 6, § 9B, as added Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 112(b)], , 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–392.)

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