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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System

§ 352. Limitation on amount of obligations of certain maturities which may be discounted and rediscounted

Statutory text

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System may, by regulation, limit to a percentage of the assets of a Federal reserve bank the amount of notes, drafts, acceptances, or bills having a maturity in excess of three months, but not exceeding six months, exclusive of days of grace, which may be discounted by such bank, and the amount of notes, drafts, bills, or acceptances having a maturity in excess of six months, but not exceeding nine months, which may be rediscounted by 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.

  1. Pub. L. 67–6 § 13A · 42 Stat. 4

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 352

    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 13A (par.), formerly § 13a, as added Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 252, title IV, § 404, 42 Stat. 1480

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 13A (par.), formerly § 13a, as added Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 252, title IV, § 404, 42 Stat. 1480

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is comprised of fifth par. of section 13A, formerly section 13a, as added . Pars. 1 to 4 of section 13A are set out as sections 348, 349 to 351 of this title, respectively.

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

1913–1991 · 3 acts
  1. 1913Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 13A (par.), formerly § 13a, as added Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 252, title IV, § 404, 42 Stat. 1480
  2. 1935amended Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704
  3. 1991renumbered § 13A, Pub. L. 102–242, title I, § 142(e)(1), , 105 Stat. 2281.
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(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 13A (par.), formerly § 13a, as added Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 252, title IV, § 404, 42 Stat. 1480; amended Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704; renumbered § 13A, Pub. L. 102–242, title I, § 142(e)(1), , 105 Stat. 2281.)

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