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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 2 — National Banks

§ 53. When capital stock paid in

Statutory text

All of the capital stock of every national banking association shall be paid in before it shall be authorized to commence business.

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. R.S. § 5140

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 53

    R.S. § 5140

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    R.S. § 5140

  2. Pub. L. 86–230 § 4 · 73 Stat. 457

    Substituted · 12 U.S.C. § 53

    Pub. L. 86–230 substituted requirement that all the capital stock of a national bank must be paid in before it commences business for permissive authority to be open for business upon payment of 50 per centum of the capital stock and installment payment of the remaining 50 per centum

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 86–230 substituted requirement that all the capital stock of a national bank must be paid in before it commences business for permissive authority to be open for business upon payment of 50 per centum of the capital stock and installment payment of the remaining 50 per centum.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. Section 514(1 of the Revised Statutes (12 U.S.C. 53) is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 5140. All of the capital stock of every national banking assocation shall be paid in before it shall be authorized to commence business.”

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 5140 derived from act June 3, 1864, ch. 106, § 14, 13 Stat. 103, which was the National Bank Act. See section 38 of this title.

Amendments

1959—Pub. L. 86–230 substituted requirement that all the capital stock of a national bank must be paid in before it commences business for permissive authority to be open for business upon payment of 50 per centum of the capital stock and installment payment of the remaining 50 per centum.

Credits

1959 · 2 acts
  1. R.S. § 5140
  2. 1959Pub. L. 86–230, § 4, , 73 Stat. 457.
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(R.S. § 5140; Pub. L. 86–230, § 4, , 73 Stat. 457.)

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