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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 6 — Foreign Banking

§ 602. Reports and examinations

Statutory text

Every national banking association operating foreign branches shall be required to furnish information concerning the condition of such branches to the Comptroller of the Currency upon demand, and every member bank investing in the capital stock of banks or corporations described in section 601 of this title shall be required to furnish information concerning the condition of such banks or corporations to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System upon demand, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System may order special examinations of the said branches, banks, or corporations at such time or times as it may deem best.

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 § 25 · 38 Stat. 103

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 602

    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 25 (par.), 38 Stat. 273

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 25 (par.), 38 Stat. 273

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

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is comprised of the fourth undesignated par. of section 25 of act , which comprises this subchapter. For classification of other pars. of section 25 of this Act, see Codification note under section 601 of this title.

Amendments1916–1919 · 2 rounds

1919

Act , substituted “above” for “subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph of this section” in the original, which for purposes of codification appears in text as a reference to section 601 of this title.

1916

Act , substituted “operating” for “which shall receive authority to establish foreign branches” and inserted “every member bank investing in the capital stock of banks or corporations described in subsection second of section 601 of this title”.

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.

Executive Documents

Exception as to Transfer of Functions

Functions vested by any provision of law in Comptroller of the Currency, referred to in this section, not included in transfer of functions to Secretary of the Treasury, see note set out under section 1 of this title.

Credits

1913–1935 · 4 acts
  1. 1913Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 25 (par.), 38 Stat. 273
  2. 1916Sept. 7, 1916, ch. 461, 39 Stat. 755
  3. 1919Sept. 17, 1919, ch. 60, § 3, 41 Stat. 286
  4. 1935Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704.
Show as published

(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 25 (par.), 38 Stat. 273; Sept. 7, 1916, ch. 461, 39 Stat. 755; Sept. 17, 1919, ch. 60, § 3, 41 Stat. 286; Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704.)

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