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Title 31 — Money and Finance

Chapter 3 — Department of the Treasury

§ 309. Office of Thrift Supervision

Statutory text

The Office of Thrift Supervision established under section 3(a) 1 of the Home Owners’ Loan Act shall be an office in the Department of the Treasury.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

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. Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989

    Pub. L. 101–73 title III § 307(a)(1) · 103 Stat. 183

    Enacted · 31 U.S.C. § 309

    Added Pub. L. 101–73, title III, § 307(a)(1), Aug. 9, 1989, 103 Stat. 352

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Added Pub. L. 101–73, title III, § 307(a)(1), Aug. 9, 1989, 103 Stat. 352

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) In general.— Subchapter I of chapter 3 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by redesignating section 309 as section 310 and by inserting after section 308 the following new section: “§ 309. Office of Thrift Supervision “The Office of Thrift Supervision established under section 2A(a) of the Home Owners’ Loan Act shall be an office in the Department of the Treasury..”.

  2. Pub. L. 103–272 § 4(f)(1)(A) · 108 Stat. 745

    Substituted · 31 U.S.C. § 309

    Pub. L. 103–272 substituted “section 3(a)” for “section 2A(a)”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 103–272 substituted “section 3(a)” for “section 2A(a)”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (A) In section 309, strike “section 2A(a)” and substitute “section 3(a)”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 3(a) of the Home Owners’ Loan Act, referred to in text, which established the Office of Thrift Supervision, was classified to section 1462a(a) of Title 12, Banks and Banking, and was struck out by Pub. L. 111–203, title III, § 369(3)(B), , 124 Stat. 1558.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 309 was renumbered section 315 of this title.

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–272 substituted “section 3(a)” for “section 2A(a)”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Office of Thrift Supervision abolished and functions transferred to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation by sections 5412 and 5413 of Title 12, Banks and Banking.

Credits

1989–1994 · 2 acts
  1. 1989Added Pub. L. 101–73, title III, § 307(a)(1), , 103 Stat. 352
  2. 1994amended Pub. L. 103–272, § 4(f)(1)(A), , 108 Stat. 1361.
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(Added Pub. L. 101–73, title III, § 307(a)(1), , 103 Stat. 352; amended Pub. L. 103–272, § 4(f)(1)(A), , 108 Stat. 1361.)

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