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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 35 — Right to Financial Privacy

§ 3415. Cost reimbursement

Statutory text

Except for records obtained pursuant to section 3403(d) or 3413(a) through (h) of this title, or as otherwise provided by law, a Government authority shall pay to the financial institution assembling or providing financial records pertaining to a customer and in accordance with procedures established by this chapter a fee for reimbursement for such costs as are reasonably necessary and which have been directly incurred in searching for, reproducing, or transporting books, papers, records, or other data required or requested to be produced. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall, by regulation, establish the rates and conditions under which such payment may be made.

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. Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978

    Pub. L. 95–630 title XI § 1115(a) · 92 Stat. 3641

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 3415

    (Pub. L. 95–630, title XI, § 1115(a), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3708.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 95–630, title XI, § 1115(a), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3708.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) Except for records obtained pursuant to section 1103(d) or 1113 (a) through (h), or as otherwise provided by law, a Government authority shall pay to the financial institution assembling or providing financial records pertaining to a customer and in accordance with procedures established by this title a fee for reimbursement for such costs as are reasonably necessary and which have been directly incurred in searching for, reproducing, or transporting books, papers, Regulation. records, or other data required or requested to be produced. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall, by regulation, establish the rates and conditions under which such payment may be made.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 95–630, title XI, § 1115(b), , 92 Stat. 3708, provided that: “This section shall take effect on .”

Credits

(Pub. L. 95–630, title XI, § 1115(a), , 92 Stat. 3708.)

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