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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System

§ 361. Bills receivable, bills of exchange, acceptances; regulations by Board of Governors

Statutory text

The discount and rediscount and the purchase and sale by any Federal reserve bank of any bills receivable and of domestic and foreign bills of exchange, and of acceptances authorized by this chapter, shall be subject to such restrictions, limitations, and regulations as may be imposed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

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. 63–6 § 13 · 38 Stat. 103

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 361

    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 13 (par.), 38 Stat. 264

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 13 (par.), 38 Stat. 264

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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 based on the tenth par. of section 13 of act , as amended. The tenth par. constituted the eighth par. of section 13 in 1916 (39 Stat. 753), became the ninth par. in 1923 (42 Stat. 1478), and became the tenth par. in 1932 (47 Stat. 715). For further details, see Codification notes under sections 342 to 344 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Section 203(a) of act , changed the name of the Federal Reserve Board to Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Credits

1913–1935 · 3 acts
  1. 1913Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 13 (par.), 38 Stat. 264
  2. 1916Sept. 7, 1916, ch. 461, 39 Stat. 753
  3. 1935Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704.
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(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 13 (par.), 38 Stat. 264; Sept. 7, 1916, ch. 461, 39 Stat. 753; Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704.)

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