Title 12 — Banks and Banking
Chapter 6 — Foreign Banking
§ 626. Dividends; surplus fund
Statutory text
The directors of any corporation organized under the provisions of this subchapter may, semiannually, declare a dividend of so much of the net profits of the corporation as they shall judge expedient; but each corporation shall, before the declaration of a dividend, carry one-tenth of its net profits of the preceding half year to its surplus fund until the same shall amount to 20 per centum of its capital stock.
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.
Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1919
Pub. L. 66–6 § 25A · 41 Stat. 35
Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 626
Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 25A (par.), formerly § 25(a), as added Dec. 24, 1919, ch. 18, 41 Stat. 378
Source evidence
Code source credit
Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 25A (par.), formerly § 25(a), as added Dec. 24, 1919, ch. 18, 41 Stat. 378
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this section”, meaning section 25A of act , which is classified to this subchapter (§ 611 et seq.).
Codification
Section is comprised of par. 18 (undesignated) of section 25A of act , which comprises this subchapter. For complete classification of section 25A of this Act, see Codification note set out under section 611 of this title.
Credits
1913–1991 · 2 acts
- 1913Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 25A (par.), formerly § 25(a), as added Dec. 24, 1919, ch. 18, 41 Stat. 378
- 1991renumbered § 25A, Pub. L. 102–242, title I, § 142(e)(2), , 105 Stat. 2281.
Show as published
(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 25A (par.), formerly § 25(a), as added Dec. 24, 1919, ch. 18, 41 Stat. 378; renumbered § 25A, Pub. L. 102–242, title I, § 142(e)(2), , 105 Stat. 2281.)