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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System

§ 374a. Acting as agent for nonbanking borrower in making loans on securities to dealers in stocks, bonds, etc.; penalties

Statutory text

No member bank shall act as the medium or agent of any nonbanking corporation, partnership, association, business trust, or individual in making loans on the security of stocks, bonds, and other investment securities to brokers or dealers in stocks, bonds, and other investment securities. Every violation of this provision by any member bank shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $100 per day during the continuance of such violation; and such fine may be collected, by suit or otherwise, by the Federal reserve bank of the district in which such member bank is located.

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. Gold Reserve Act of 1934

    Pub. L. 73–6 § 19(d) · 48 Stat. 337

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 374a

    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 19(d), formerly § 19 (par. 7), as added June 16, 1933, ch. 89, § 11(a), 48 Stat. 181

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 19(d), formerly § 19 (par. 7), as added June 16, 1933, ch. 89, § 11(a), 48 Stat. 181

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

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is comprised of subsec. (d), formerly seventh par., of section 19 of act , as redesignated by Pub. L. 89–597.

Credits

1913–1966 · 2 acts
  1. 1913Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 19(d), formerly § 19 (par. 7), as added June 16, 1933, ch. 89, § 11(a), 48 Stat. 181
  2. 1966renumbered § 19(d), Pub. L. 89–597, § 2(b), , 80 Stat. 824.
Show as published

(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 19(d), formerly § 19 (par. 7), as added June 16, 1933, ch. 89, § 11(a), 48 Stat. 181; renumbered § 19(d), Pub. L. 89–597, § 2(b), , 80 Stat. 824.)

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